GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 11 ~ ~ 1 Corinthians 1:25~ ~ “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

It sounds silly to ask whether bacteria can think. However, science has known for more than 100 years that the little guys can indeed think. Experiments in 1883 conducted by Wilhelm Pfeffer showed that bacteria will swim toward good food like chicken soup and away from poisons such as mop disinfectant.

Pfeffer also learned that bacteria can make decisions. He made sure that his bacteria knew the location of chicken soup. Then he separated them from it with a mild mixture of disinfectant. He found that the little fellows would swim as fast as they could through the disinfectant to get to the soup.

This is the same type of decision-making process you and I go through every day. We often tolerate the unpleasant to arrive at the pleasant. As a result of this research, scientists today talk about bacteria actually making decisions.

These conclusions amaze most people. That’s because we have been trained to think of intelligence in an evolutionary context. The “higher” or more evolved a creature is, the smarter we expect it to be.

However, if we recognize, as the Bible says, that all life is the product of an intelligent Creator, we should not be surprised to find that intelligence has nothing to do with evolution. Every creature has been given as much intelligence as it needs by a Creator Who truly cares for every living creature – even bacteria!

What about us”? If a little bacteria “bug” is important enough in the Creator’s creation to give it a thought process in order to make a decision, how much more should we be more intelligent to that one little cell? We make, perhaps millions of decisions in our lifetime, but we have only one decision that will determine our destiny forever. Since we never know how long we’ll live, it would be very foolish not to make sure that we’re saved by accepting the free gift from Jesus Christ. Have you?

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