By REY FLORES
Modern Science Proves Intelligent Design by Ken Pedersen. For ordering information, please visit www.archwaypublishing.com.
I think it’s safe to assume that most readers of The Wanderer need not be convinced of intelligent design, but as we make our way through today’s world, we certainly run into those who choose science over belief in the entirety and wonder of God’s creation.
Author Ken Pederson, who was an atheist for most of his life, could possibly be the best person to have written a book like this. Like many Catholic converts, former nonbelievers tend to be more informed about the faith than many of us cradle Catholics; at least that has been my experience.
The beauty of this book is that it isn’t some heady, long-winded scientific analysis most people wouldn’t understand; rather, it’s written in a compelling, yet easy-to-read way. The way I see it, this book is a labor of love, demonstrating the author’s passionate change of heart since leaving atheism.
I’ve often had the argument with nonbelievers that science doesn’t contradict faith. If anything, scientific evidence, whether it’s something like the Shroud of Turin, or actual, countless confirmed miracles, science confirms the reality that intelligent design is.
Science and faith can coexist without one canceling out the other. I never understood why anyone so interested in science wouldn’t also be interested in researching and discovering all of the mysteries that the supernaturality of the Catholic Church has to offer.
Pedersen, an electrical engineer and a retired vice president of Raytheon, writes that “modern science has proven that reality is precisely designed to use a multilayered network of information processing systems to sculpt an immortal force we call energy into intelligent beings. You are this immortal force brought to life as the ultimate information processing system to perceive, explore, and revel in the beauty of this design.”
While I couldn’t state it as well as Pedersen did in the above quote, I have witnessed the truth, power, and beauty of intelligent design each time that I was blessed to witness the birth of all of my children. The ability for women to bring God’s own image and likeness into this world through childbirth is not only an astounding and complex example of biological science, but an otherworldly miracle in and of itself.
I guess that is why things like abortion are that much more horrific because we know that scientifically it is a human person being systemically murdered. I am grateful that our faith also equips us with the moral intellect, compassion, and love to know that each new life is a miracle, and that abortion could be the most heinous of crimes.
As we learn in this book, the information processing systems and countless layers of interlocking information all work in concert with each other to make us the incredible machines of human flesh and blood, intellect, and compassion — and sometimes even evil.
In an age of rapidly advancing technology, it’s important to remember that no matter how fast your Internet speed is, or how many different ways people have developed to supposedly communicate with each other, God surpassed all of this when He created us.
Pedersen writes, “DNA contains a program that can be modified, expanded, copied, error checked, tested and improved upon. This is the ultimate in terms of digital information storage and handling as we know it.”
Going further, I’d like to add that we can always update our own human “software” in so many ways, especially if we edify ourselves through an increased faith and prayer life. A good start to better understand all of this is by reading this important and timely book.
Arm yourselves with this valuable information.
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(Rey Flores writes book reviews and commentaries for The Wanderer. Contact Rey at reyfloresusa@gmail.com.)
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