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been identified as the “subcategory” of cosmological argument because it focuses on the proofs of
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harmony, order, and design seen in the creation itself. Order can be seen because if it was not there,
we could have been sleeping together with the animals, snakes, insects, etc. further, if there was no
order, we could have been living in water, which is not good for man and certain animals that do not
survive in water. In closing this argument, Lewis Sperry Chafer’s summary is worthy noting, “By the
teleological argument it has been seen that there is a Creator” who has “mental powers which design
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and determine means to an end.”
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) – an example for the Teleological Argument
DNA exists in every single cell. You have one hundred or so trillion cells in your body. Every one of
those cells has a little physical strip of DNA. It is a coiled copy of coded information.

There are 46 segments in that little coil. Twenty-three of those came from your
father and twenty-three of those came from your mother to make the 46. DNA
determines exactly how every single cell in your body is to function throughout
your entire life. The information embedded into the DNA molecule provides the
instructions for all of the cell’s life functions. To the right is what a segment of a
DNA molecule looks like…

If the 46 segments of DNA in just one of your cells we uncoiled and stretched
out, it would be seven feet long. It would be really thin. It would be so thin that
we couldn’t see it under an electron microscope. But if it were stretched out it
would be seven feet long. If all of the DNA in your body were stretched out and
connected together, it would stretch from here to the moon one and a half
million times. Pretty incredible you are, huh? If all this very densely coded information were placed in
typewritten form, it would fill the Grand Canyon 50 times. That’s how fearfully and wonderfully you
are made (Psalm 139:4).

DNA displays the hand of an intelligent and powerful Creator.

The Earth...its size is perfect – Another Example
The Earth's size and corresponding gravity holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gases, only
extending about 50 miles above the Earth's surface. If Earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be
impossible, like the planet Mercury. If Earth were larger, its atmosphere would contain free hydrogen,
like Jupiter. Earth is the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere of the right mixture of gases to
sustain plant, animal and human life.

The Earth is located the right distance from the sun. Consider the
temperature swings we encounter, roughly -30 degrees to +120 degrees. If
the Earth were any further away from the sun, we would all freeze. Any
closer and we would burn up. Even a fractional variance in the Earth's
position to the sun would make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains
this perfect distance from the sun while it rotates around the sun at a
speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is also rotating on its axis, allowing the
entire surface of the Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day.

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