More Than Meets the Eye
by Richard A. Swenson, M.D.
While selecting a book at Logos Bookstore in Green Hills, one of the salesmen there convinced me to buy another book by the same author. More Than Meets the Eye sat in my “to read” pile for a few months, then I pulled it out of the pile because it looked to be about the number of pages I wanted to tackle in the next few days. Now you know the secrets of how I select books to read: 1) I take others people’s advice and 2) wait until it looks appealing.
Am I ever glad I read this book. It is fascinating. Richard Swenson, as a doctor, reviews various wonders of the human body and then of the universe in such a way that the reader must come away with a conviction that evolutionists are the most absurdly unscientific people that God has allowed to exist in His creation.
Dr. Swenson shows the balance which God built into creation when he says, “The human body is composed of ten thousand trillion trillion atoms – a number greater than the stars in the universe.” In other words, that which is smaller than man is approximately equal to that which is greater than man. God placed the crown of His creation right in the middle of it.
Elsewhere, he describes the awesome creation – the human eye. “The retina of the eye contains over 100 million rods and cones that take continuous pictures under light conditions that can vary by a factor of ten billion. Individual retinal photoelectric cells are so sensitive that they can be triggered by one billion-billionth the amount of light emitted by a flashlight. In one-third of a second, the retina solves the equivalent of nonlinear differential equations that would take a supercomputer 100 years to solve.”
More Than Meets the Eye would be a great addition to any earth science or biology or physics curriculum. It is also an easy and enjoyable read. Dr. Swenson continuously comments on the majesty of creation and the lessons to be learned from it.
One statement by Swenson more than says it all for me, “The more we understand about God’s power, the less we worry about our weakness. The more we trust in God’s sovereignty, the less we fret about our future.”
You can purchase it like I did at Logos Bookstore in Green Hills.
(Reviewed August 2008)