Proverbs 8

A few years back (haven’t heard it in a while, so I don’t know if it’s still around), one of the popular sayings in culture was That is so random. The younger generation used it a lot to describe things that are unexpected or “come out of the blue.” Random is also a word that has been used extensively in discussions regarding the origin of life in the universe. There are many people today who believe our existence is the result of a string of random events occurring over billions of years.

In contrast to that picture is the Bible’s description of where life comes from and how it began. There are pieces of that discussion in today’s chapter from Proverbs: “The LORD brought me [wisdom] forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be… I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep, when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep, when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.” (vs 22-23, 27-29)

If this is true, it seems there is nothing “random” about God’s creation. No natural selection or survival of the fittest. No theistic evolution. Only intelligent, wisdom-filled design.

When you gaze out at the world around you, or when you study about the world within you, is this really all that surprising? I mean, I know evolutionists would like us to believe that complex machinery, such as iPhones, is designed, while the more infinitely complex machinery of the human body is not, but does that square with logical thought?

Do we know of anything complex that has ever randomly appeared on the planet? And if we don’t, if—in our own life’s experience—anything that is truly complex has only ever been the result of intelligence, why should we not at least begin with the same assumption regarding our bodies and our world? Why begin with the opposite assumption, which runs contrary to experience and evidence?

There is a popular notion in the evolutionary world that monkeys, given enough time, could randomly reproduce the works of Shakespeare. That sounds like a Herculean task! However, given an infinite amount of monkeys and an infinite amount of time, anything, should be possible, right?

Maybe not. A few years ago, I came across this article, which explained the statistical probability (or rather, statistical improbability) of such a thing occurring. As the author concludes, “How can I suppose that Shakespeare himself was the result of a random process when it is quite clearly impossible for even a trivial fragment of his work to have arisen by chance?”

I think Solomon would have to agree. When it came to creation, he would have said, “That is sooo not random.” And neither is God. Everything He does is purposeful, intentional, and meaningful.

My brain is no more the result of randomness than my smart phone, and let me assure you that even if time lasts another 2,000 years, man will never be able to create anything even remotely close to the brain and its technological capabilities.

Using wisdom and great intelligence, God has handcrafted you, me, and the entire world around us. There is simply nothing random about it!