The God who formed man is the same God who reforms man… And in the miracle of regeneration, He gives man the opportunity to be restored to Him. But what is a miracle? Arthur Custance gives this clear definition: “I believe that miracles are occasions upon which God suspends or supersedes or accelerates or in some way modifies the natural order so that an event occurs which is entirely exceptional. A miracle then, according to this view, would be an indication that God is interfering in the natural order by an act of will because it pleases Him to do so.”
It is the God of miracles who created the unfriendly porcupine, which can carry up to thirty thousand quills with which it repels its predators. Though exclusively a defensive animal, the porcupine is a killer since a fox or timber wolf might die of starvation, unable to eat because of the quills in its mouth. It is said that only one North American animal can kill a porcupine with impunity — a large member of the weasel family called the “fisher”, which has developed a knack of flipping porcupines over on their backs and attacking the unprotected underside. Why should one creature alone be able to do this? It is one of the mysteries in the endless fascination of the God of creation.
The flight ofwild geese is a study in aerodynamics. The leader ofthe “V” formation breaks trail through the air, and each bird thereafter gains “lift” from the updraft created by the wing action of the one in front of it. Being the leader is not easy, and that is why one can see the birds change the lead position periodically, as if by prearrangement. It all works so smoothly that spectators rarely stop to ponder what a remarkable system it is.
It is the God of the porcupine, the weasel, and the geese who seeks to transform the mind of man so that through the haze of sin which surrounds him he can see again the purity of the Creator.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One