Is man created by God? Impossible. Here’s why.

The ultimate and indisputable arguments against creation.

• Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” • So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.

According to the Christian faith — and the biblical account of creation — God created man. A key ingredient of the Christian faith, if not the key ingredient. Without it, the Christian doctrine would fall apart completely. Without this, man wouldn’t be ‘the crown of creation’ or ‘the image of God’ or any of those flattering titles. Humans would just be evolved apes, the most intelligent animal at best.

The whole idea of the fall, the lost paradise, and the need for redemption would be pointless. If man hadn’t brought sin into the world by disobedience, what would we even be punished for?

By the way, this whole setup feels like it’s evil by design. Picture this: an all-knowing, all-loving God creates the first couple in His image, knowing full well they’ll fall from grace (because, well, He’s all-knowing). Then, for the rest of time, He watches them and their descendants live in a world of sin and suffering, hoping for salvation? Look at human history — wars, famines, pandemics, oppression, slavery. And then we’re supposed to say without blinking that this wasn’t part of God’s plan for humanity? Even though He knew this would happen the moment He created the first couple and put them in a garden with the ULTIMATE TEMPTATION? Come on!

But let’s not get sidetracked. Let’s dive into what it takes to create a living, breathing adult man and woman.

To start with, we’re made of over 30–40 trillion cells. Let that number sink in for a moment. Christians don’t like numbers — they prefer simple things, simple facts, simple statements. Things they can just believe in. “God made a figurine out of clay and breathed life into its nostrils. BOOM! Living being.”

“God did that, Mommy?” “Oh yes, He did! Amazing, isn’t it? What a powerful God!” End of discussion.

But let’s break this apart. What did people know about cells, say, 500 years ago? Absolutely nothing. When did we discover DNA? The first mention was around 1860, not even 200 years ago. And when was the first real picture of a double helix DNA molecule taken? Around 1950.

Today, we know a whole lot more about DNA. We know it consists of 3 billion base pairs spread over 23 chromosomes, each with 50 million to 300 million base pairs. This one strand contains the complete code for human development, from a fertilized egg to a fully grown adult. It contains the instructions for how our organs develop, how our senses process information, how that information is stored and used in our brains, and even how we behave — how we mate, reproduce, find food, avoid danger, and organize in families and societies.

It’s even got the instructions for all the “less glamorous” stuff, like peeing and pooing.

Now, let’s put all this together. Imagine a computer program written in a code of just four letters — similar to machine code, which uses only two digits. This DNA code contains all the information needed to build a human being from scratch. It’s never been written before, never tested, but it must run flawlessly from the get-go. It contains the entire blueprint for sexual reproduction, meaning two distinct yet compatible varieties (male and female) must be created perfectly for reproduction to happen. Not only must their organs fit together (and we know how well they fit), but their cells must know exactly how to combine their DNA.

Ever thought about how amazing it is that a human egg cell allows only one sperm to enter and then seals itself off to block the others? Brilliant mechanism, right?

Now, I know a fair bit about programming, and let me tell you, no program is ever written without testing, trial, and error. No complex program is written in one go.

I asked ChatGPT to compare human DNA to computer code, and here’s part of the response:

• “Nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA combined give us roughly 3 billion lines of code.”
• “In comparison, modern operating systems like Windows or macOS contain about 50 to 100 million lines of code, making the human genome roughly 30 to 60 times larger.”
• “Web browsers like Chrome or Firefox have around 10 million lines of code, making the human genome 300 times larger than a browser.”
• “AAA video games may have 5 to 20 million lines of code, meaning the human genome is about 150 to 600 times more complex than a video game.”

I also asked how long it would take a human programmer to write and test this amount of code. Based on actual data, it would take 400,000 years! You can check the math yourself, but that’s the estimate.

So, ask yourself: How likely is it that some clever being woke up one day with a brilliant idea, and by dinner had built a flawlessly functioning human being — 30 to 60 times more complex than Windows 11 — from nothing but clay? And sure, computers are partly made from silicon and metal, which can be found in clay (in trace amounts), but humans? Mostly carbon, water, and some trace elements — nothing like clay.

But I digress.

Now imagine you want to create just one cell. Where do you get the raw, extremely pure elements? How do you store them, prevent oxidation, and ensure they combine properly? How do you connect base pairs in DNA, and how do you string together 3 billion of them in a flawless double helix?

And just when you think you’ve done it, you realize — whoops! You forgot the mitochondria, the cell’s powerhouse! So now you have to write another program, only 16,000 base pairs this time. Easy, right?

Once you’ve got your DNA sorted, the real fun begins. You have to build a cell that can stay alive, absorb nutrients and oxygen, and divide itself into two identical (or slightly different) versions.

Now, making one human cell is so complex it might as well be impossible. But creating 30 trillion cells, each with a unique function — nerves, organs, blood, skin, hair, and all that? Forget it.

Exponential Growth vs. Sequential Production: The Real Magic of Nature

To put things in perspective, let’s consider the classic thought experiment: Imagine you have a piece of paper. You cut it in half, stack the halves, cut them again, and repeat. If you could fold that paper just 42 times, you would reach the Moon. That’s right — by simply doubling the height of the stack with each fold, in just 42 steps, the thickness would grow enough to stretch the 384,000 kilometers from Earth to the Moon. Unbelievable, but mathematically true!

That’s the magic of exponential growth. Every time a human cell divides, it doesn’t just add a new cell; it doubles the total number of cells. So from 1 cell, you get 2, then 4, then 8, and so on. Within just 47 doublings, you would theoretically have more than 100 trillion cells, far more than the number of cells in the human body.

Now, compare this to sequential production — creating cells one by one. If you were the creator, producing cells manually like an assembly line, the numbers would remain shockingly small. Even if you could make millions of cells per second (which is already unimaginable), you’d still be light-years away from reaching the 30 trillion cells in the human body. Sequential production is simply not efficient enough to create life on the scale and complexity we see in nature.

This difference is key to understanding why life as we know it must have arisen through natural processes like cell division and evolution. The only way to get to trillions of cells in a reasonable amount of time is through exponential multiplication, where each step builds on the last.

In nature, this kind of growth happens effortlessly and efficiently. The first human cell divides into two, then four, then eight, until you have the trillions of specialized cells that form a fully grown adult. Nature doesn’t build humans one cell at a time — it grows them. And that’s something that no assembly-line approach or instantaneous act of creation could ever replicate.

Here’s another mind-blower: If you want to make a fully grown human in a single day, you’d need to create about 347 million cells per second to reach 30 trillion cells in 24 hours. Good luck with that!

Oh, and here’s a fun fact: If you stretched out all your DNA end to end, it would be 30.6 billion kilometers long — about the distance from Earth to Pluto and back several times. Let that sink in.

The Ecosystem Connection: A Symphony of Evolution

Let’s zoom out a bit. Humans don’t just exist in isolation. We are part of a finely balanced ecosystem, a web of life where every single detail is orchestrated to near perfection. Take a moment to think about how utterly dependent we are on the environment around us. Every breath we take, every sip of water, every bite of food, and every nutrient we absorb has to be exactly right for us to function.

Consider this: We need just the right amount of oxygen in the air. Too much, and it becomes toxic. Too little, and we suffocate. The atmosphere is composed of 21% oxygen, and guess what? That’s the perfect amount for humans. Coincidence? Not at all — it’s the result of billions of years of life evolving alongside Earth’s shifting environments, slowly adapting to these conditions.

Then there’s food and water. Our bodies require an incredibly specific combination of vitamins, minerals, and trace elements like potassium, sodium, iron, and calcium. These elements aren’t just lying around for the taking — they’re found in precise concentrations in the plants and animals we eat. The water we drink has to be clean, free of harmful pathogens or pollutants. Our diets, developed over millennia of evolutionary trial and error, provide us with the nutrients we need in exactly the right balance.

Do you really think it’s possible to just “create” a system where humans get the right amounts of everything they need, by pure coincidence? You’d need to make sure there was a perfect balance between all species of plants, animals, and microorganisms, all interacting in an environment that sustains life as we know it. Each organism in the food chain — whether it’s a grain of wheat, a cow, or a bacterium — would have to be perfectly suited to its role, and its relationship to other organisms. The complexity of that system is staggering.

Now let’s talk about the female reproductive cycle. Women have menstrual cycles that are eerily close to the length of the lunar cycle — about 28 days. It seems almost as if nature has calibrated human reproduction to the rhythm of the moon. But this isn’t some mystical connection, it’s the result of biological processes and evolution, where timing matters. Hormonal cycles, fertility windows, and gestation periods are all balanced with natural rhythms. To simply create this harmony from scratch? Good luck.

And it doesn’t end there. Think about how the seasons affect us, how we depend on crops growing in the right conditions at the right time. The rotation of the Earth, the tilt of its axis, the changing lengths of days and nights — all of it feeds into this delicate balance. Life forms have evolved alongside these conditions, finding their niche in the ecosystem, finely adapting to temperature, sunlight, and the availability of resources.

If you tried to create a human being from scratch, you wouldn’t just have to make the person. You’d have to make the entire ecosystem they rely on. You’d have to “create” every element of the Earth’s atmosphere, food chain, and water cycle, all balanced perfectly to sustain life. You’d have to account for the vitamins we can only get from certain foods, the plants that require specific insects to pollinate them, and the animals that in turn feed off those plants. You’d have to craft an intricate web of interdependencies that stretch across species, ecosystems, and even geological features of the Earth itself.

That’s the beauty of evolution. It’s a system that self-organizes over billions of years, slowly adjusting and adapting to changes in the environment. Traits that help survival get passed on. Ones that don’t, fade away. Every tiny adaptation, every improvement, every failure — it all adds up. This ongoing process sculpts life to fit the world, and the world to sustain life.

Creating this? That would be like trying to write an entire symphony orchestra piece, one note at a time, without ever hearing how they fit together. Even more absurdly, it would be like trying to perform it flawlessly the first time, without any rehearsal. The idea that everything — human life, the ecosystem, the entire web of interdependencies — could have just popped into existence, fully formed and perfectly functional, is not only unlikely — it’s impossible.

Evolution explains this intricate, perfectly balanced system. Billions of years of trial and error, adaptation and survival. It’s the only explanation that makes sense. Everything we depend on — the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, the rhythms of the Earth — is explained by this natural process of evolution. Trying to “create” this overnight would be like trying to sculpt a mountain out of air.

And yet, here we are — living in a world where every tiny detail, from the trace elements in our food to the cycle of the moon, fits together like a vast, ever-evolving puzzle. No intelligent designer could have created this system from nothing, because it isn’t the work of a designer at all — it’s the result of nature’s greatest, most powerful force: time.