Through its diversity, design, and magnificence, life declares: "I am not a random happening. I was made by an awesome, intelligent Creator!" His footsteps and fingerprints are everywhere.

God is like the windshield in your car. You seldom notice it or think about it because you are looking right through it at everything else. But there it is in plain sight, right in front of your face, as you drive through life -- and so is God.

It amazes me that intelligent people will insist that there is no evidence for a Creator. What? All this intricate, glorious design with out a Designer? How is that even remotely possible? If I say there are no automobile factories, the intellectual will say I am crazy. If the intellectual says their is no Creator, what is he? Which is statistically more probable -- a car without a designer/creator or life, nature, and all that exists without a designer/creator? Come on, think statistically here -- don't just react with an anti-supernatural presupposition!

Footprints and finger prints are all over the physical world, but they are also in our hearts -- a still small voice that calls lovingly to us: "I am here. I am real. I am alive and all powerful. I love you as an individual." Many deny the positive stirrings of the human heart, but they are nonetheless real -- the inner voice of the Almighty!

Like a windshield, God is ignored by most of us, except of course when a bug splatters or a rock hits our life. He is denied, resisted, and fought by a few. And He is diligently sought and passionately pursued by the hungry and the wise.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."

In this blog I have counted down my Top 10 Greatest Americans of all time based on their commitment to the principles "that all men are created equal" and "liberty and justice for all". You might want to read the stories about numbers 10 - 2 in previous posts. (If you click on "more" under "recent posts" and scroll down you will see the titles of the Top 10 countdown posts.)

So who is number one -- the greatest American of all time?

William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison was born to a poor family in 1805. As a young man he met Benjamin Lundy who published a newspaper called, the "Genius of Universal Emancipation" and was almost single-handedly speaking out against slavery. Garrison began to work with Lundy and caught a heart-felt vision for liberty and justice for all Americans. He begin to work passionately and tirelessly for freedom for the slaves which was a very unpopular cause at the time, even in the North. He insisted on immediate emancipation.

Garrison and a few others founded the Anti-Slavery Society which gradually grew to have a wide influence. In 1831 he began to publish the "Liberator", a weekly anti-slavery newspaper which at great financial sacrifice, he published until all the slaves were freed in 1865.

This caused Garrison to be hated across American. He was almost killed by a pro-slavery mob in his home town of Boston. Almost every day he received letters containing threats of violence against him. The state of Georgia even put a $5000 price on his head.

Garrison, through his non-religious Christian faith, held to his view of non-violent resistance. He believed in using persuasion (which he called "moral suasion") rather than violence. He saw slavery for the terrible crime that it was and boldly spoke out against it no matter what it cost him personally. With fiery words, a prophets passion, and a hero's courage he forced the country to face it's most crucial moral issue -- the act of forcibly holding three million men, women, and children in life-long servitude, bondage, and degradation while hypocritically proclaiming human freedom.

The greatest American has been mostly brushed aside by historians or pictured as a crazy radical. His greatness for the most part has been missed by American historians. But Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy, was strongly influenced by Garrison's non-violent direct action and wrote about it in his book, "The Kingdom of God".

An Indian man name Gandhi read Tolstoy's work and adopted Garrison's non-violent direct action using it to free the nation of India from British control. A Southern American pastor, Martin Luther King, Jr., went to India to visit Mahatma Gandhi and adopted non-violent direct action as the cornerstone for the American Civil Rights Movement.

William Lloyd Garrison is my hero. Oh that we had more people like him today. A wonderful biography of Garrison is: "All on Fire" by Henry Mayer.

A womb-of-doom is a present day chamber of horrors so unspeakable that even the gore promoting popular media refuses to show pictures. Speak up for the unborn children in the womb.

Some people boldly state that a virgin birth is impossible or that there is little or no evidence for the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Are their claims true? Let's examine them.

Is it possible? As far as I know in all of human history there is only one reputable claim of a virgin birth and that is for the birth of Jesus Christ. So we know that virgin birth at the best is extremely rare and goes against the natural order of human conception; but does that make it impossible?

Who can say that science won't someday find a way to generate a human being from a human egg without a sperm? Scientists already claim to be cloning animals without a sperm -- so why couldn't a human be conceived from an egg without a sperm someday? Indeed, a virgin birth is a scientific possibility.

Even without science, a virgin birth is possible. The intricate, functional design of plants and animals indicate that some kind of intelligence engineered them. Time and chance have never been proven to create logic, design, or function, in a laboratory, much less life. All of nature shouts loudly: "An intelligence made me -- I am not a random accident." Life in all its amazing diversity is statically and scientifically impossible without some kind of intelligent Creator.

So if an intelligent Being could design and create human beings, could this Being not bypass the normal means of conception and create a special human being in a special way? Logic says, of course He could!

To simply write the virgin birth off as an impossibility is the act of a closed mind. No one, scientist or otherwise, has ever proven that a virgin birth can't happen. Saying something is impossible, in no way disproves it! Thus, a virgin birth is a possibility both scientifically and supernaturally.

Believe and behave.

Don't "believe" me? That's ok. Check out these folks . . .

Jesus -- "Repent and believe . . ."

J. the B. -- "Repent and believe . . ."

Jesus' 1/2 brother James -- "Faith without works is dead."

Old hymn writer -- "Trust and obey."