Systems and Significance

On every jobsite I work, many systems comprise every project.  The electricians run wires and connect circuits; iron workers build the steel structure, pipe fitters weld steam, chilled water, and heating pipes; plumbers connect condensate drains and domestic hot and cold water; roofers install flashing, insulation, and drainage; sheet metals workers hang air-conditioning ducts.  On and on it goes, from the architects to geologists, structural engineers to the inspectors, beyond the range and scope any one person can fully grasp.  I insulate mechanical equipment and very few people in the entire construction industry outside our profession have any concept of how to perform the work.  Yet for all this complexity, manpower, training, and experience, a state-of-the art building which costs a billion dollars and takes years to complete is NOTHING compared to the complexity of the systems which make up a living human body.

Take a chiller system, for instance.  A chiller cools water which flows through pumps which force the water through the supply pipe and circulates the water back to the chiller through the return line.  Branch lines take the water to fan coils through which the water continually circulates and cools the air.  This cool air is blown through ducts which supplies conditioned air balanced to a particular space.  I am oversimplifying this, of course, but the fact remains that this system of cooling water to cool air is beyond crude when compared to the circulatory system which enables blood to be pumped through the body.  Ducts are not alive, nor are chillers able to support themselves with energy and nutrients.  The circulatory system operates at a microscopic level, delivering oxygenated blood to every cell and remove carbon dioxide in addition to amino acids, nutrients, and many other necessities to support life.  Did you know that the heart of a human being beats and the flow of blood begins four to five weeks after conception?  Unthinkable!

No system is without a design.  No design can occur without thought, intelligence, planning, and purpose.  We see these incredibly complex designs at work in the human body, animals, and the ecosystems in nature.  Laws do not randomly occur:  they are designed and enacted.  When I see an air conditioning duct I realize it the product of engineering by men because air conditioning is desired.  The metal serves the purpose of a conduit to move the air from one place to another with the size of pipe pre-determined by an engineer.  I insulate the duct to keep it cool or warm as it moves from one place to another.  Only a fool would suggest that the fan coil just happened to create itself or the air became cool through random chance.  Yet even after people live in a body for years and appreciate the ability to see, feel, smell, speak, hear, think, touch, and laugh, they have the audacity to suggest that the systems of their body must have just occurred over time.  In doing so they deny their Creator of praise and reject the purpose for which they were created:  to glorify God with their lives.

Paul noticed this tendency to deny God even in his day:  Romans 1:18-21 says, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, [19] because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. [20] For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, [21] because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened."  Man can make an artificial hip or heart but they cannot compare to the original.  They will always be artificial, without the longevity or perfection of the original.  God created the standard.  Man is amazed by the clarity of High Definition television, but the only reason people can tell the difference is because God created an eye which can discern even the smallest improvements in clarity.  The eye God created remains the standard.  No lens created by man in the last thousand years is as good as the lens God made back in 4000BC to this day!

Because we and all things have been created by God for God, we exist for His pleasure and His glory.  Since our finite minds cannot comprehend the awesome infinity of love, power, glory, and might that is God, He has revealed Himself in the creation of systems found human bodies, animals, plants, and nature.  No system of government spontaneously becomes ordered by an explosion, and no system of earth became functional through the combustion of gas and abundance of energy.  God has a purpose for us, and we find our purpose in Him!