Author: A Little Faith Lift…Finding Joy Beyond Rejection
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Valerian Trifa was an archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America and Canada. Even though he was a naturalized citizen of the United States, he was stripped of his American citizenship for lying about his involvement in the murder of hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. Forensic Files featured his story one evening, and I was enthralled with how God orchestrated him being captured and found guilty, even though the television show gave God no credit.
Seriously, our Creator’s design is ingenious.
In the article “DNA of God,” Kerry Shook wrote this: “The discovery of DNA is just one of the scientific discoveries over the last 70 years that points clearly to the existence of a Creator. For wherever there is complex information, there has to be intelligence behind it. And God has stamped on every one of your over-100 trillion cells evidence of Himself, because wherever there’s complex information, there’s always intelligence behind it.”
To date, over one trillion people have lived on this earth, yet none of them have had the same DNA, the same fingerprint or the same handwriting. Not even identical twins. Yet, in all three of the following cases, the uniqueness of their genetic code was what caused forensic science to be instrumental in their convictions. Only God could master-mind such methodology to help capture a criminal.
(1). DNA: The Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway, was responsible for a rash of murders — at least 48 but possibly close to 90 —in Washington state in the ’80s and ’90s.
(2). Fingerprint: Between June 1984 and August 1985, a Southern California serial killer dubbed the Night Stalker broke into victims’ houses as they slept and attacked, murdering 13 and assaulting numerous others.
(3). Handwriting: On March 1, 1932, Charles Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of the famous aviator, was kidnapped and murdered by Bruno Hauptmann.
Because of God’s unique design, the FBI’s DNA database has helped more than 758,000 investigations through DNA matches, and the more forensic medicine improves, the more “cold cases”—including Jane and John Doe identifications—have been solved.
Interestingly, those three patterns also have been responsible for convicted felons being released from prison, even some on death row. How incredible of God to create each human with his/her own distinct identification determinants! In Psalm 139:13-14, King David wrote, “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank You for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous… how well I know it.” David, of course, had no idea how scientifically accurate his writing was.
Hopefully you readers never will be convicted of a crime based on the use of your DNA, but may we never fail to wonder at our Creator and the intricacies of His design in each of our lives.
