Complementary Counterparts

We’ve discussed problems of atheistic concepts before. Let’s consider one of the very many things which make no sense without a guiding hand to bring them about. Many things in our world fit together in such a way that they would be useless if not paired, or grouped, with their counterparts.

Before we dig in to that idea, let’s talk about evolution just a bit. There are two types of evolution. There is theistic evolution, the concept that life developed according to evolutionary concepts but that this process was overseen and directed by God so that there was a plan, a purpose, a design that was being led into fruition as the designer intended. There is also atheistic evolution, the concept that everything we experience in our world is the product of random happenstance and there is no god to implement anything.

 Neither one makes any sense. We will concern ourselves primarily with the atheistic version. The problem with the theistic version is that God has no use for it. Do you believe that God is the creator? Then you believe in God who is the originator which means all things came from God. That’s what being God is all about: supreme, omnipotent, omniscient. He speaks and it’s done. Accept God proudly and move forward. Don’t make ridiculous concessions to the atheistic evolutionist as though they’ve figured out a great scheme and you’d like to borrow part of it to appeal to them. The problem with atheistic evolution will be our focus here.

Now let’s get back to counterparts and complementary items. Possibly the best example of this concept is the fact that almost every species of animal exists as male and female, and each animal is one or the other.  Imagine back to the time when evolution was (allegedly) in full sway. That means there is no plan, no design, no purpose to anything that happens, but that everything is the result of random happenstance.

A species has started to develop. For no reason, over time members of that species begin to differentiate along one of two paths. They develop different characteristics that accomplish different purposes but yet they maintain their identity as a unique and common species. Imagine, a single species but some of its members have one set of characteristics while others have a different set of characteristics. But aside from this unique differentiation, everything about them is the same. How incredibly odd and inexplicable such a set of circumstances is.

But wait! There’s more! Those members of the species who developed the F variant, and those members who developed the M variant, have developed their own different processes for reproducing their species, and neither process is able to reproduce independently. The F variant has begun producing something we’ll call eggs, and the M variant has begun producing something we’ll call sperm. Neither eggs nor sperm have any capability of reproducing the species on their own. This fact in and of itself is merely odd, unusual and not at all surprising in a random happenstance world.

But wait again! There is yet more! It turns out that when paired together the egg and the sperm are complementary counterparts, and it is an absolute necessity for them to work together for the continuation of the species. What is really crazy about this is to accept without question that these separate and differentiated paths of development by random happenstance with no plan nor purpose within a species were at once a necessary requirement for the propagation of the species. But that’s not all.

Yes, there is even more! In order for the species to continue in the midst of this M/F variant thing, the Ms (let’s call them males, OK?) and the Fs (females ( you’re out ahead of me aren’t you)) have got to have a way to get sperm and egg together. Well even though this entire process is unplanned and purposeless random happenstance, somehow everything worked out so that (hope this isn’t too graphic, it’s a necessary fact to consider) the males and females happen to be constructed perfectly for the male to be able to insert/deposit sperm in a female receptacle. What’s more this concept is in operation in every sexual living animal in our world.

Imagine the chances of every species being divided into male and female, having sperm and egg, neither of which can accomplish reproduction on its own, that when united can reproduce another member of the species, and that is the only way reproduction can occur. Now add the fact that the male and the females are designed - oops, we’re talking atheistic evolution, so scratch “design” - happen to be such that their differentiated parts are differentiated just so that they match together perfectly, like a hand and a glove so to speak, so that the sperm and the egg can be placed together in the perfect incubator. And not only that, but every sexual species has developed in this same process and though their male and female parts often are quite different from what another species has, they all fit together in their own unique way, from species to species to species and etc.

Without God this had to evolve with no plan, no purpose, no design, purely randomly as a matter of happenstance. Is it even reasonable to assume that such an observable reality as sexual creatures and the billions of tiny evolutionary steps that would have to follow in sequence to bring this reality about occurred through random happenstance with no purpose or plan? Or is it more reasonable to conclude this makes no sense without a guiding hand to bring such sexual creatures about? Which idea is rational? Which is irrational?