Ralph The Square Dog
“I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm. I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.” - Jeremiah 27:5
A BIT LACKING IN CREATIVITY!
My family was a bit weird when it came to dogs.
I had a dog named Ralph up till the time I was ten. When Ralph #1 passed on, we got a new dog. Guess what his name was. Ralph #2.
When Ralph #2 went to doggie heaven, guess what our next new dog’s name was. You guessed it. Ralph #3. And so it went my entire childhood. I don’t know exactly why we did that. I guess every family has its oddities.
CHUNKY PLUS!
Our last Ralph was square. He was as wide as he was long. He was so chunky that he was like a box with legs. How my little brother loved that fat dog! Once he got his driver’s license, the dog traveled with him everywhere. Ken and Ralph. Ralph and Ken. The best of buddies. When he had a girlfriend and went driving it became Ken and Ralph plus girl—with the girl on the outside.
One time Ken took him backpacking in the snow. As my brother trudged through the foot-deep snow toward his destination, big wide Ralph ran and slid everywhere, chasing never-to-be-caught birds, squirrels, deer and whatever else he could steer his nose to.
By the time Ken got to camp, his four-legged little trooper was pooped—completely! Ken took off his own backpack, set up his tent, and began to relax when he heard a whine. Poor Ralph! There he stood with his doggie backpack saddled onto his back, unable to move. His deeply concerned master gently lifted off the pack and his one-foot tall round pal toppled over sideways like a tree that had just been felled. TIMBERRRR!!!! And there he lay until the next morning when Ken had to wake him up!
The Beginning of Dogs
Dogs are great, aren’t they? Man’s best friend they say.
Think about how amazing they are for a minute. There are big ones like Saint Bernards, little ones like poodles that you can hold in your lap, and everything in-between. There are over 300 breeds—amazing variations that God made possible.
ALL DOGS FROM ONE CODE
Now I want to tell you something extremely important. Did you know that all dogs came from one dog kind? All scientists believe this. At one time, there was basically one generic kind of dog—Mom and Dad dog—and all the varieties came out of their genes. The significance of this is incredible.
When God created the first two dogs, they had on their DNA the directions for all the types of dogs; all the hair patterns and all their skeletal, and organ differences.
This is amazing. It’s like having a little car-ball the size of a dust particle that can make itself into a car—but not just one car. It can make an Accord, an SUV, or a dump truck–and a couple hundred more varieties—with all the different length wires (nerves), engines (hearts) and onboard computers (brains), body designs, (muscle and hair patterns), and interiors (organs). And all are just the right size and connected to everything else just right! Wow! What a car-ball that would be!
WAY BEYOND POSSIBLE FOR CHANCE
Dogs are a million times more complex than a car. Yet, all the varieties came out of one set of DNA genes smaller than a dust particle. And, don’t let anyone tell you all types of dogs “evolved” from one kind.
There was no evolution in the slightest involved. All the varieties have come out in the last 4000 years or so. The information for bloodhounds and a mastiffs didn’t come about by accidental mutations. All the information for both dogs was already there on the DNA—it just wasn’t isolated and activated.
All the needs for all the vast array of dogs was already present on just one single set of DNA all put there by the God if infinite intellect.
That’s astonishing! Beyond belief. DNA was designed by One with infinite intellect.
"Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite." - Psalms 147:5
Know this is true of your God. Let His infinite intelligence guide the course of your life.
Don Miller