How Big is God?

I was thinking about biochemistry this week. How our human body operates because of many many many overlapping chemical reactions that are shepherded by enzymes and corralled with feedback mechanisms. Even simply reaction pathways and cycles are barely understood and incredibly complicated. The Krebs Cycle for example that gives us the energy to get up in the morning or to run a marathon is a complicated reaction cycle that requires a bunch of study to understand. Or the female reproductive cycle? It's responsible for the existence every single human being on the planet and we still don't really understand all it's intricacies. Or how about the production of vitamin D? That's a reaction pathway with several steps, one of which requires the action of sunlight as a catalyst on chemicals in the skin, without it we can suffer from depression or insomnia or a number of other problems. Our bodies are made of hundreds of thousands these reactions, all carefully controlled by other chemicals, all coded in the DNA, and capable of interacting with the environment to change that coding.

Imagine the mind that is able to hold and understand all that biochemistry, imagine the being that could design those systems, and then make them adaptable so that every single human is different and yet their systems still work.

Now humanity is just one type of organism. Our world is populated with hundreds of thousands of species, each with their own unique biochemical design. The designer, He keeps all these designs in mind, every single one of them, from the tiny ant in its colony to the giant redwood in its forest, from the human in its self determination to the jellyfish floating on the tides.

But lets step back, look at the bigger picture. All these species live in community, they interact with members of their own species and they also interact with other species, a giant ecosystem, the web of life. That ant, its an efficient little cleaner, collecting and eating dead matter, building its tunnels under the surface of the earth and aerating the soil, when they move on fungi and bacteria grow in the empty tunnels, further breaking down the decomposing material. These actions provide nutrients for that redwood to grow. Then the redwood, it processes carbon dioxide, turning it back to oxygen for us humans and all the other animals to breath. And the jellyfish, even it is a benefit to the world around it, as it moves it stirs up the water, it and the other fish, they are responsible for keeping the ocean moving, yes there are tides, and the wind, but once we go down below the surface we don't have to go far before the effect of the wind and tides is minimal, without jelly fish and all the other sea creatures the oceans would become stale and stagnant, our continually moving oceans, they are full of algae, tiny plants that take carbon dioxide dissolved in the water and turn it into oxygen for the fish to breath through their gills, and then the fish in turn become food for humans.

Imagine the mind that not only designs the biochemistry every species in the world, and codes in in a 4 letter alphabet, but this mind also designs the web of life where all these different species interact and benefit each other.

That's a big mind. A big creator. A big God.