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So what’s amazing about a cross-shaped diagram, I mean after all it could have just been drawn like that to make it simpler to understand e.g. the famous London Underground Map is just a representation of the network and therefore not to scale. No, what is amazing is the electron microscope picture of a Laminin that he then shows, and you see that the molecule is really cross shaped. Laminin, the stuff that holds our human bodies together is in reality, cross-shaped, confirming in an extremely powerful way the verse in Colossians 1v17 that in Jesus, all things hold together.

But that aside, what I find really interesting about the video is the reaction that it brings from atheists. It doesn’t take you long to find responses to the Laminin evidence on YouTube or elsewhere on the web. As you will know the argument / battle over ‘intelligent design’ in America is rife and it seems for every proponent of Laminin as evidence of God’s involvement in the Universe there seems to be a strong opponent. Now I am no molecular biologist but the one picture that Gigilo gives as evidence is very persuasive. But if I was to take my believer’s hat off and take a neutral stance, I would want to see more evidence before I was convinced. Mind you it seems to me that those that argue against the shape of the molecule being a cross all use only one particular image to disprove it.

So where does that leave us? Do we need electron microscope pictures of a cross-shaped protein to prove the existence of God and his hand of God in our lives? Whilst there is no doubt that such examples can help boost our faith in God, we have been seeing in our studies in Mark, the greatest sign we have is Jesus Christ himself. And as we have found already in our new studies in Hebrews in our evening services:

Hebrews 1

1 In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.

Jesus is all the evidence of the Father’s hand in our lives we need. The writer to the Hebrews reminds us that through Jesus, God created everything even our protein molecules. Jesus is the radiance of God’s glory and he is the exact representation of the Father. Not only did he create all things, he sustains all things, he really does hold everything together. And because of his mighty work on the cross we can be purified and know the Father.

So as we rejoice in molecular evidence of the work of God in our lives so we look to Him who is the perfect evidence of the hand of God.

Your fellow adventurer,

Gary