Ingenious Engineering: Creator Generated

An assignment for my cell biology class brought me to the PBS website where I read the following.

 

"As viewed from a human perspective, nature has done some ingenious engineering to overcome some of the obstacles it has faced. Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction) and altered it to allow two parent cells to combine to create offspring (sexual reproduction). It met this challenge by devising (again, speaking from a human perspective) a system by which parent cells incorporate genetic information from both of its parents but contain half the amount of DNA. With only half the DNA, when the parent cell combines with another parent cell, the proper amount of DNA is maintained. This solution is called meiosis." ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/divide.html ) 

"Nature has done some ingenious engineering"?  Why is it that when the world is faced with a concept they cannot explain it turns into nature's "ingenious engineering"?  

"...nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction) and altered it to allow two parent cells to combine to create offspring (sexual reproduction)."  

Why? Why, would it do such a thing?  I mean, life is going just fine for those asexual reproducing  systems, why change?  It's not like it wasn't working any more.  There are still plenty of living things that reproduce asexually.

I bet it was the cell's brain that one day said, "Hmm, let's try something different.  I bet sex would be nice."  No! doesn't happen.  So why would we try to attribute this "ingenious engineering" to "nature"?  A thing which has no thoughts, ideas, or problem solving skills. 

Meiosis is not a nature created solution to an obstacle.  Meiosis is Creator generated (ingenious engineering) that was created for the purpose of sexual reproduction. 

The word ingenious it's self tells us of a greater power.  The first entry in the Merriam-Webster dictionary for ingenious reads "showing or calling for intelligence, aptitude, or discernment."   None of which nature has or can do.  This definition however is preceded by the term obsolete.  It's not surprising to see that a word, which so clearly points to a Creator, would be termed obsolete.  Especially when it is a word used in a writing such as that which is cited above.

In a world where we will not have God, what else is to be expected?

You know being in a secular college, where one thing is taught as truth and all other options are taken off the table, is sometimes tough.  And it creates a greater understanding of the world and it's depravity. However, it does lend itself to a greater understanding of God as The Creator.  Things others learn and try to find an explanation for, or say, "Wow, How does that happen?" I learn and say, "Wow! How great is our God!"

  

To His Glory Alone,
JMarie