BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW: George Washington Carver Viewed Creation Through Intelligent Design Lenses

If the name “George Washington Carver” seems to ring a bell somewhere back there in your memory but you can’t quite place it, he was one of the mostly unsung early heroes of the the civil rights movement in America.

Though born into slavery, Carver was nothing less than a genius. This remarkable man viewed agriculture as a means through which he and his fellow African-Americans of the late 19th and 20th centuries could discover needed new products and advance themselves in an American society that was still far from achieving the promise of the Declaration of Independence.

Carver is known for discovering multiple uses for peanuts, but he also did the same with soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. He passed away in 1943 in Tuskegee, Alabama, where he had been a professor for many years at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now better known as Tuskegee University).

But as Eric Heidin, writing for Evolution News and Science Today, points out, Carver viewed all of nature as “an unlimited broadcasting system, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

Heidin has more to share with you regarding Carver, as well as several other more recent examples of smart individuals looking beyond the conventional wisdom of our day to see the incredible evidence of God’s handiwork in the design of mundane things like dirt and complicated stuff like the nerve that connects your gut to your brain.

With a promo like that, how can you resist clicking here and reading the rest of Heidin’s excellent work???

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