THINK ABOUT THIS: What Mount Rushmore Teaches Us About How We Got Here
If you have never been to Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota, let me encourage you to make whatever arrangements you need in order to do son soon. It is an amazing memorial to the human ability to create masterful art in stone.
Each of the four presidential faces on the mountains — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln — is 60 feet high from forehead to chin. Each was chiseled and drilled out of solid rock by Danish American sculptor John Gutzon Borglum over a period of 14 years.
But not only is Mount Rushmore a sculpted wonder of the modern world, it is also an illustration of great engineering being put to use in the creation of art. Borglum managed a team of 400 men chipping, drilling, and placing dynamite charges, all while suspended using a complicated system of ropes and platforms that had to be precisely placed to avoid accidents.
Mount Rushmore not only reminds us of the greatness of four of America’s greatest leaders from its founding, it also points to a fundamental truth about how the universe, including our Earth and indeed each living creature on it, as explained in the following video from the John 10:10 Project:
Why would not an omnipotent “supernatural intelligence” be perfectly capable of creating the natural processes that we observe, and that (so far) are the best explanation we have for the profusion of life around us — even if these processes appear to our limited intelligence to be “random” and “undirected”?