For the comfortable, enjoyable functioning of our bodies bursas are situated in various places. No-one wants the inflammation of one (bursitis) which brings nothing but pain and restricted movement.
An injury to my L shoulder still caused pain 5 weeks later so I was referred for an ultrasound scan. The radiological report said I had a “full depth tear” of a tendon.
Tendons are strap-like structures located between one end of a muscle and a bone. They are made of strong flexible but inelastic fibrous tissue which can twist as in the rotating movement of swimming.
It’s complicated
Previously unknown to me until the surgeon’s pamphlets with coloured professional drawings revealed their complexity, was the elaborate structure of bones, muscles, tendons and bursas in both the shoulder and knee joints.
How could these body structures possibly have evolved from nothing over billions of years? And what must the miserable condition of ceaseless pain and immobility have been like for those hapless humans to have to endure (before the bursa) over eons of time as those structures ever-so-slowly evolved?
Why would such advanced development even have happened? What could have been the moving cause?
A deep question
Is the complexity of body structures convincingly explained solely by mindless chance or must there have been the involvement of an external intelligent guiding power? The so-called ‘theory’ of evolution (no, it is merely an atheistic mindset) attributes to itself creative ability and close attention to detail.
Although it is never explained or even posed, evolution’s proponents are forced to rely on it:-
(i) having the ability to bring about unguided body-part variation leading to radical change
(ii) which results in totally different body parts (eg the bursa)
(iii) which in turn enables new (beneficial?) bodily outcomes such as pain free mobility enhancing the enjoyment of its owner.
Because of the promotion of this ‘theory’ (about which there is an alarmingly frank admission by Oxford University Emeritus Professor Richard Dawkins that there is no evidence to support it), regrettably the evolutionist’s pre-determined worldview that ‘there is no god’ dominates evolutionary thinking.
Even more anti-intellectual, this ideological mindset overrides reason. Intelligent people convince themselves to believe something that mature reason would prevent, thereby enabling Dawkins to state in one of his books:
“I can’t help wondering, once again, why whales and dolphins…have not re-evolved functional gills…it should not be too difficult to do so. I don’t know why they haven’t, but I’m pretty sure there’s a good reason, and somebody either knows it or knows how to research it”.
The bursa...
is a small fibrous sac-like body cavity, especially one containing a viscous lubricating fluid, located between tendon and bone which is an efficient protective cushion or gliding surface that allows the tendon to move over bone thereby reducing friction as it contracts and relaxes within a joint. It is found throughout the body but most notably in the shoulder, elbow, hip and knee joints.
Noting its pivotal role in the overall smooth operation of the body, the smaller more detailed the body part the more forceful the argument that it is not the result of blind chance but rather of design.
Although nonsensical, it is as if mindless evolution ‘oxymoronically’ said to itself: ‘well that’s enough, the body works, no need for further refinement’, as Dawkins states in one of his anti-faith books that evolution is only a mechanical, uncaring process.
Such close attention to detail powerfully states that our Creator is a wise and tender loving God who wants us to enjoy a comfortable life in our bodies.
Evolutionary wishful thinking
On p 416 of The Greatest Show on Earth by Dawkins we read: This is a book about evidence and we have no evidence bearing upon the momentous event that was the start of evolution on this planet’.
On p 419: We have no evidence about what the first step in making life was, but we do know the kind of step it must have been. It must have been whatever it took to get natural selection started…the key step was the arising by some process as yet unknown, of a self-replicating entity.
For intelligent godless man to convince himself to adopt an unintelligent baseless mindset called evolution absent any evidence (none being possible) is grossly conflictual and non-intellectual notwithstanding the boast of higher degrees conferred by equally godless universities.
Regarding the origin of life, man’s ‘lord science’ will always faithlessly lead mankind up a dry gully, being an example of how: Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you. (Isaiah chapter 47:10). God still asks today: How long will you love delusions and seek false gods? (Psalm 4 verse 2).
Bursitis resolved
Due to skilful forward-thinking by an orthopaedic surgeon and subsequently receiving two time-spaced ultrasound-guided cortisone injections into the area of the bursa rather than pursuing the originally mis-diagnosed torn tendon, I now enjoy pain-free movement without the need for corrective surgery.
God’s warning
Jesus still warns today that: Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rains came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash. (Matthew chapter 7 verses 26/27).
Collectively the rains, streams and winds of life refer to the godless mindset of evolution which ultimately always results in a great crash in the life of those who choose to remain merely people of the earth.
Can ‘mere existence’ be evidence?
For: since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made so that men are without excuse. (Romans chapter 1 verse 20).
One massive reality evolution cannot explain (because of its irrelevance thereto) is the night sky and endless space. Notwithstanding the unbelief of the atheist its mere existence cannot be ignored.
Our solar system comprises the sun and planets including spaceship earth. The latter rotates daily on its strange 23.5 degree angled axis giving us night and day, and its annual revolution around the sun gives us our 4 seasons.
The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day and night they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge…Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. (Psalm 19 verses 1,2 & 4).
Only one winning way
The eternally best decision one can make is to take their stand on God’s winning side.
(PLEASE NOTE: the views expressed here are solely those of the writer and are not to be attributed to Christian Today, Press Service International or to any other person or entity.)
Gavin Lawrie is a retired Barrister and Solicitor from Tweed Heads NSW Australia and author of the book: 'THE EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION: Uncovering The Faulty Science Of Dawkins' Attack On Creationism'. He is married to Jan with two adult children and they are grandparents.
Gavin Lawrie's previous articles may be viewed at http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/gavin-lawrie.html
Gavin Lawrie is a retired Barrister and Solicitor from Tweed Heads NSW Australia and author of the book: 'THE EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION: Uncovering The Faulty Science Of Dawkins' Attack On Creationism'. He is married to Jan with two adult children and they are grandparents.
Gavin Lawrie's previous articles may be viewed at http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/gavin-lawrie.html
