An Excerpt from "God Speaks Clearly Through Nature"

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God made human beings distinctive and special. Humanity is clearly superior to plant and animal life. For example, no sense of moral order exists in the plant or animal kingdoms, yet it clearly does among people. Humanity also is uniquely creative. Consider, for example, the arts. While it’s true animals build and produce, they do so according to their instincts. They do not have imaginations as do members of the human race. Other qualities set people apart from the rest creation as well, things such as human appreciation of beauty, the practice among humans of wearing jewelry and ornate clothing, and language.

Here’s a story that highlights the uniqueness of humanity. A teacher instructed her students to list the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.¹ After giving them enough time, she told them to pass their papers forward. One student, however, expressed frustration. “There are so many!” she said. “It’s been hard to decide which ones to include.” The teacher asked to see the student’s paper and discovered she had written,

1. the ability to see
2. to hear
3. to touch
4. to smell
5. to taste
6. to laugh
7. to love¹

While many animals have some of these attributes, only human beings have them all, and only humans can appreciate them.

Notes:

¹The Seven Natural Wonders of the World are

the Grand Canyon,
the Great Barrier Reef in northeast Australia,
the Harbor of Rio de Janeiro,
Mount Everest,
the northern and southern lights or the Aurora,
Mexico’s Parícutin Volcano, and
Victoria Falls in southern Africa.

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²adapted from Ray Comfort, How to Know God Exists, (Alachua, FL: Bridge-Logos, 2007), 29.

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