Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. Today's New York Times reports that his family is working hard to preserve and protect his legacy. His image has become an icon on the island and around the world; I've seen it on t-shirts and posters all over Cuba. His daughter is glad for the continued attention given to her father's memory, but frustrated that his picture is appearing on everything from postcards to bikinis.

I never met Che, of course, and could not prove his existence to you even if I did. I might be deceived or deceiving you. Even if I produced DNA evidence and claimed that it proved his existence, you could accuse me of falsifying the results or contaminating the specimens. If I could have introduced you to him, you could decide later that you met an imposter or that your experience was a hallucination. The existence of another person is in some sense a faith proposition. It is no different with the existence of God.

As we have seen, we can argue for God's existence from the trustworthiness of the Bible or the inherent logic which reasons from creation to Creator and design to Designer. A third way to argue for God's existence is to ask: what else do we want God to do to prove himself? How could he have done things differently than he has?

Remember the four attacks on his existence we noted last week. The first was that evolutionists can use natural selection to explain life without a designing God. For instance, my hands typing these words seem similar to a chimpanzee's opening a banana. According to evolutionists, this fact demonstrates that we come from a common ancestor. The adaptation of species to their changing environment is further evidence of evolution at work, we're told. Similarity and adaptation prove that the world could have evolved without God.

But consider the possibility that God made the world in such a way that life can adapt to its changing environment. In that case, adaptation does not negate design--it proves it. Perhaps God wanted me to be able to type and a chimpanzee to be able to eat a banana, so he designed our hands in similar ways to perform similar functions. All cars have four wheels, but this fact doesn't prove that they all came from the same factory. God could have made a world without such similarities so that evolutionists would have less evidence for their theory, but I'm glad my hands can type, even if a chimpanzee's could do the same. But if he made the universe, why aren't we more sure of his existence? Let's continue tomorrow.

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