When presented with intelligent design arguments, atheists will often point to disease, mutations, and natural disasters that destroy life and the environment. They say something like, “What kind of God would make a world like this?”
The Biblical text most relevant to these questions is Romans 1:18–20. There the Apostle Paul writes,
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
For what can be known about God is plain to them,
because God has shown it to them.
For His invisible attributes,
namely, His eternal power and divine nature,
have been clearly perceived,
ever since the creation of the world,
in the things that have been made.
So they are without excuse.
Paul tells us that some things can be known about the unseen God from the things He has made. He is eternal. He is powerful. His divine nature is personal, not impersonal.
In Romans 2:14–16, Paul adds that God is a moral being, who has
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Paul also says this witness of creation to God’s existence and his nature has been seen by people “ever since the creation of the world” (Romans 1:20). It has been seen by all people at all times and in all places.
Approximately another 1,000 years before David (about 2000 BC), Job (Job 12:7–12) in poetic language, he commands us to study nature.
All these creatures nonverbally communicate that God is the source of their life and our’s and is the wise sovereign who guides and governs all these things.
As we study plants and animals and people, many of God’s attributes are revealed by the mind-boggling complexity of the DNA molecule, the amazing design and function of living creatures, the beautiful ecosystems, and the wonder of men and women made in the image of the Creator."
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