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Study Section 2: The teleological argument - continued

2.1 Connect

I was a science major in college. The more we studied the biology of the earth, the more
amazed I was at the complexity built into all facets of life. I took a course about cell biology
and learned how every minute cell in the body is basically a city with a power plant, a
sewage disposal system, roads throughout, and headquarters from which all information
flowed to keep the business of the cell moving forward. And deep in the nucleus of the cell
were millions of bits of information stored in spiral strings called DNA. I learned that there
were over THREE BILLION bits of information floating around in the nucleus each packed with
information about how to keep the cell alive and functioning and how to create a new cell should this
one get damaged. We had to learn about DNA replication – the process of copying information to
create a new cell. It was mind boggling! Today we are going to look at a few more theological proofs for
the existence of God, as well as dive into other ways to validate God’s existence. Ready?

2.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to give at least five examples in nature that demonstrate complexity in
the universe, thus point to a Designer.

2. The student should you be able to give the step by step Ontological argument for the
existence of God.

3. The student should you be able to give the Cosmological argument for the existence of God.

4. The student should you be able to give the Moral argument for the existence of God.

2.3 The human brain

Three to four pounds and several thousand miles of interconnected
nerve cells (about 100 billion) control every movement, thought,
sensation, and emotion that comprises the human experience. Within
the brain and spinal cord there are ten thousand distinct varieties of
neurons, trillions of supportive cells, a few more trillion synaptic
connections, a hundred known chemical regulating agents, miles of
minuscule blood vessels, axons ranging from a few microns to well over a foot and a
half in length, and untold mysteries of how—almost flawlessly—all these components work together.
This is the amazing brain.
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Your brain has about one hundred thousand billion electrical connections. That’s ten to the fourteenth
power. In fact, your brain has more electrical connections than all the electrical appliances on the face

1 https://www.brainfacts.org/core-concepts/your-complex-
brain#:~:text=The%20brain%20is%20the%20body's,of%20which%20are%20in%20use.&text=Humans%20have%20
a%20complex%20nervous,enormous%20social%20and%20economic%20impact.

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