Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

May 27, 2026

Leadership Notes

     We’ve heard the old myth. “You only use 10% of your brain power.” Balderdash. We use 100% of our brains. That cranial locomotive is even firing away while we sleep.

     Here’s some real science about brains. Researchers recently completed a map of a piece of brain the size of half a grain of rice. That makes it 0ne-millionth the size of the human brain. It took them a year and over 1.4 million gigabytes to scan it.

     Here are the details {keep in mind, this is a piece about the size of half a grain of rice}:

> Over 57,000 cells

> 150 million synapses

> New structures that they didn’t know existed

     This type of brain-mapping they did, for the entire brain, would require all the data storage generated on Earth in a year, utilizing a 140-acre data center. But your brain can hold up to 2.5 million gigabytes of information… enough for over 3 million hours of HD video or 342 years of continuous viewing. In addition, your brain can produce 10 quadrillion calculations per second…enough processing power to run over 4,000 high-end gaming PCs all operating at peak ability. And best thing of all, it runs on the same power needed for a single dim lightbulb.

     Listen to Psalm 139:13-16:

For you formed my inward parts;    

you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;    

my soul knows it very well.

My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,    

intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your book were written, every one of them,    

the days that were formed for me,    

when as yet there was none of them.

     No technology comes close to doing what the brain can do. The more we learn about our biology, the more complex it becomes. This is God’s glory on display. To say it all came together accidentally or without an initial cause is absurd. When I once shared that I don’t accept the theory of evolution as an explanation for the origins of life, some people questioned my intelligence. Hey, there’s lots of reasons to question my intelligence, but that ain’t one of them. One person even asked, “And you have a college degree?” To which I answered, “Plus a three-year graduate degree.” And I reject the theory of evolution at the macro level. Moron, right?

     Did all this happen by chance? We are fearfully and wonderfully made. Even if we accept as close to scientifically accurate that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, and human life emerged sometime around 300,000 years ago, it seems {to my wee little brain} pert near mathematically impossible that the complexity we see could have happened in such a short amount of time. I love how Paul captures it in Romans 1:20-21:

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. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as

God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their

thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

     Life is beautifully complex. We will enjoy it…cherish it…and honor it, up until we breathe our last.

     And now, your Moment of Spurgeon:

"God’s goodness is seen in creation; it shines in every sunbeam,

glitters in every dewdrop, smiles in every flower, and whispers in

every breeze."

     With Much Love and Affection,

                   Richard