According to Darwin in the ‘Origin of Species;’ plants, animals and even people developed physical qualities which would bring about better quality of life and assurance of their survival.

Somehow by sheer need, single-celled organisms grew fins and gills to move about in the water. Later, they grew legs and lungs so and lungs so that they could walk on the land, and later still, they developed wings and feathers to fly above the earth.

How awesome, these creatures which we now see, willed themselves by necessity of survival to go from floating single cells to fish, to air breathing land dwellers, to flying birds,

incredible. 

When I was a young man, I loved basketball, I played, and practiced, day and night. I became one of the best shots and ball-handlers in my school. (It was a small school)

I practiced at night, in the morning, with others, and alone, basketball was all I thought about, all I wanted to do. I was only 5’2″ and was often overlooked because of my small stature. I knew if I were taller, I would play this game through high school and college, maybe even in the pros.

I tried to grow, I ate healthy foods, I ran and jumped, I even tried to stretch my body on my bed by hooking my feet under the rail and pulling as long and as hard as I could .

But, nothing happened.

I hoped, I prayed, I willed myself to be taller, but I remained the same.

Big skills. small frame.

So I finally resigned myself to the truth. I would only play this game at the lower levels of competition. Like many before, and many after, a recreational basketball player.

Why do men suppose that a single celled organism wanted or needed to become a multi-cell structure?

Why did the multi-cell need to swim, then ascend to a land breather, then a bird, then a mammal, and finally to a man?

Who told them that this was possible?

Look out at the world you live in, your own experience.

From the beginning, you were satisfied with who you were and what you had.

You once loved only milk, then, through the intervention of parents, you were introduced to cereal, baby food, soft foods, and meats. Without the help of your parents, milk would have been good enough, you would never have tasted and experimented beyond this point.

If you were in a crib and stayed there your whole life, the milk brought to you would have been all you knew.

And all that you wanted.

A young girl in school sees the cutest boy in her school and dreams, even fantasizes,  longing to be his girlfriend,

He is enough.

He is what she longs for.

He becomes an obsession, but when she goes to a friend’s house and sees that Partridge Family on TV, soon she is enamored by David Cassidy and his picture on her wall. Her dreams have changed, the cutest boy in the school is now lower on the needs list. She has moved on to bigger and better things.

In these instances, the baby and his/her milk, the young girl and her crush, both were satisfied with their lives, they wanted nothing more until a more advanced entity provided new stimulus; e.g. baby food or TV show.

Back to single cell, who told the single cell about multi-cell and the multi-cell about swimming, fins, and gills? Who told the fish about lungs and legs, and the amphibian about wings and feathers? And finally, about the upright human form so advanced from all of these? No mother to facilitate a greater diet. No TV to encourage a new desired crush. And no power for me to become taller, even though it was all I dreamed of for years.

Did the amoeba have a teacher? Did his mother feed him?

OOPS!

He had no mother, or brother, or father, or sister, or teacher, did he?

He was all alone.

No brain, just existence.

I however have a brain. I saw what I wanted, I longed, I practiced, I dieted, I physically attempted to alter my height, but alas;

I am still me, short and average.

So in closing, if a single celled structure with no brain, no arms, no legs, no eyes, and no reason to hope for anything better, can will itself to evolve, what does that say about you and I?

Matthew 5:36

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