We KNOW that there is a G-d. It's a no brainer. The whole universe in all of its infinite complexity just got here by accident? Can't be. Billions upon trillions upon gizillions of accidents that worked out perfectly?? C'mon.
Just the form and structure of the human eye alone is so complex that it requires a tremendous amount of foolishness to claim that it an accident when a far more plausible explanation that Someone with intelligence created is readily available.
Who wrote this?
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest sense.
Charles Darwin in his Origin of the Species [page 170]. But theories die hard. He went on to argue that it had been produced through a natural evolutionary process.
Or how about evolutionist Robert Jastrow:
The eye is a marvelous instrument, resembling a telescope of the highest quality, with a lens, an adjustable focus, a variable diaphragm for controlling the amount of light, and optical corrections for spherical and chromatic aberration. The eye appears to have been designed; no designer of telescopes could have done better. How could this marvelous instrument have evolved by chance, through a succession of random events? (1981, pp. 96-97).
In his book, Does God Believe in Atheists?, John Blanchard described just how complex the eye really is.
The human eye is a truly amazing phenomenon. Although accounting for just one fourth-thousandth of an adult’s weight, it is the medium which processes some 80% of the information received by its owner from the outside world. The tiny retina contains about 130 million rod-shaped cells, which detect light intensity and transmit impulses to the visual cortex of the brain by means of some one million nerve fibers, while nearly six million cone-shaped cells do the same job, but respond specifically to color variation. The eyes can handle 500,00 messages simultaneously, and are kept clear by ducts producing just the right amount of fluid with which the lids clean both eyes simultaneously in one five-thousandth of a second (2000, p. 313).
Allan Gillen wrote in his book Body by Design:
The most amazing component of the eye is the “film,” which is the retina. This light-sensitive layer at the back of the eyeball is thinner than a sheet of plastic wrap and is more sensitive to light than any man-made film. The best camera film can handle a ratio of 1000-to-1 photons in terms of light intensity. By comparison, human retinal cells can handle a ratio of 10 billion-to-1 over the dynamic range of light wavelengths of 380 to 750 nanometers. The human eye can sense as little as a single photon of light in the dark! In bright daylight, the retina can bleach out, turning its “volume control” way down so as not to overload. The light-sensitive cells of the retina are like an extremely complex high-gain amplifier that is able to magnify sounds more than one million times (2001, pp. 97-98).
So we have to thank Hashem for our amazing eyes!!!
The eye is one of countless examples of clear יד השם.
So that Hashem exists is an absolute [for countless reasons that we haven't enumerated here].
The complicated part is trying to figure out all of the details.
But believing is not enough. We have to LIVE and BREATHE Hashem. We all believe that Mars exists but it makes no difference in our lives. Hashem not only has to make a difference but He must be EVERYTHING.
But believing is not enough. We have to LIVE and BREATHE Hashem. We all believe that Mars exists but it makes no difference in our lives. Hashem not only has to make a difference but He must be EVERYTHING.
