In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1).

As the above verse says, God was in the beginning (when the universe was created). But, beyond that, how does someone know if there really is a God? An effective way to demonstrate there is a God is to show the enormous amount of design at life's molecular level. Since there is a design there must be an intelligent designer.

I had the privilege of attending a seminar put on by the head of the medical school at Johns Hopkins University. He is a world-renowned expert in DNA. As he pointed at a 30' x 30' slide of a large lake, he said that the chances of our getting DNA from primordial slime (theory of Darwinian evolution) via a lightning strike are the same as the chances of taking an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters and one monkey's (by chance) typing out the entire series of Encyclopedia Britannica without error. The crowd behind me murmured at the prospect of this scientist's wiping out Darwin's theory in one fell swoop.

The next slide was that of an ape and a man with the respective DNA code under each. The scientist showed a lot of similarities but also pointed to many differences. He said that the chance of one difference in ape DNA mutating to make man's DNA is the same chance of having an infinite number of typewriters with an infinite number of monkeys and one monkey's typing out the Encyclopedia Britannica.

The next slide was a giant Bible opened at Genesis 1:1, In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The Chairman of the Johns Hopkins University said that the only way we could have DNA is if there were a higher power to create DNA. I was exstatic. Darwin himself said that if it could be proved that anything in man could not be put together a little at a time then his theory would be wrong.

As the head of Johns Hopkins University proved, DNA is irreducibly complex - which means if you don't have all of the DNA then it doesn't work. (For example, if you just have the plank of a mousetrap you are not going to catch any mice.) Irreducible complexity shows that there must be an Intelligent Designer. The only way there can be DNA is if there is a DNA maker.

-Adrian Despres

There is a God (our Intelligent Designer). We can rest assured that God exists.