Today's article

What Good Is an Appendix?, by Steve Ridgell


It was a question doubters, agnostics, atheists, seekers, or
smart-alecks loved to ask: “If God is so wise, why did he create an
appendix?” I thought it was a good question. After all, the appendix
served no real purpose. I was never much of a science student, but I
remember how it was described. It was an organ for which there was no
apparent function. Unless you count needing something to burst so you
could have emergency surgery. It was one of the trendy ways to mock the
concept of God.

Guess what? Scientists and doctors are now saying the appendix serves a
useful function in immune protection. It is a place for gut bacteria to
reside and helps prevent diarrhea. So much for my science teachers. It
now seems perhaps science does not know everything. Of course, real
scientists will tell you that up front. So why would anyone use science
to try to disprove the existence of God?

It appears that there is a reason why we humans have an appendix. I am
not really surprised. I believe God made us and that He knew what He
was doing. Am I simplistic? Maybe, but I think the appendix question is
like many of the other things in my life. There are things that I do
not understand. But I need to trust that someone does. This world, and
my life, makes sense when I trust there is someone who knows me and who
understands everything going in my life. For me, that someone is God.

It is not that I have all the answers … and not just about my
appendix.
I do believe I know who does have the answers. After all, he knew what
he was doing with the appendix.

I believe that God knew what he was doing when he created me.