People will often ask, "Why would a good and perfect God allow bad things to happen?" This question seems all the more relevant today as all of humanity is suffering from the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Internal clocks are amazing examples of God’s providential care for his creation. One recent study showed embryonic “clocks” in chickens function like a construction schedule for the formation of their bodies.¹ Another study indicated that plants are able to communicate and synchronize their internal clocks in remarkable ways.²

“Were it not for the asteroid, humans would never have evolved,” said Ian Miller, curator of paleobotany and director of earth and space sciences at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.¹

As deaths in the United States from COVID-19 now exceed over 24,700, one believer in natural selection has used the outbreak to expound on the virtues of the selectionist worldview embraced by many in education, government, and even some Christian organizations.¹ Speaking anonymously, this person sees values in “war, famine and natural disasters” reducing human population and says, “

New York City has become one of the largest epicenters of confirmed cases in the United States for coronavirus infections.