Thursday, June 02, 2005

steel and design

It is simply amazing to stand on our 22,000 square foot slab and now to look up and to see a massive red steel structure taking form. Our contractor is a fussy guy, and he is precise in every measurement, the placement of every pre-designed piece of steel. I commented to him today on the genius of the engineer who designs the steel structure, taking into account load stress, connective roof hips and tying together various sections of the building with interlocking steel.

Of course, in today's vernacular where intelligent design is dismissed as an emotional explanation for creation, it occurred to me that no one would suspect that our steel building just happened--that various pieces of steel merged together in the aftermath of a random explosion bringing together the coincidental product of chance--a perfectly fitted framework.

As I look across our beautiful twenty-three acres and all of the beautifully-scultured hills in green covered with multi-colored wildflowers, and gaze up at an icy-blue sky, I have two choices...intelligent design.. or not?

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