Your Body...More Complex Than a Rocket Engine

Learn about the critical nature of going to the Designer

The Importance of the Designer

During the 80’s and 90’s, for approximately 15 years, my husband worked as a propulsion engineer for a company called Rocketdyne. Many of the engineers who worked at Rocketdyne were responsible for designing the liquid rocket engines used in the manned and unmanned space program under contract from NASA. These motors were very complex pieces of machinery that had to operate just as they were designed. If there was the slightest uncertainty or anomaly, it was promptly investigated to determine the root cause of the problem. Many hours went into resolving problems. It was absolutely necessary that these engines worked flawlessly—human lives depended on it!

During my husband's tenure at Rocketdyne, his responsibilities included predicting the performance of the Space Shuttle main engines prior to flight, analyzing their performance after their flight into space, and resolving any performance problems or anomalies that occurred. Often in performing these duties, to resolve problems, it was absolutely necessary for him to go back to the designer who designed the part in question to better understand how that particular part was supposed to function. It was critical to get accurate information – absolutely critical.

Having this accurate information from the designer gave him the ability to properly and efficiently resolve the anomalies and problems. If, on the other hand, he chose to go to some other engineer who was not the original designer of that part, the chances were very high that he would receive inaccurate data and possibly not even know it. And if he were to use this information from someone other than the designer, there would be a high probability, depending on the nature of the problem and the part affected, that down the road a failure would occur in the engine.

Not only could the bad information cause a complex piece of machinery to fail, but his own personal credibility as an engineer would become suspect. If he presented information to his superiors or to their customer, NASA, that was found to be false, my husband's reputation as an engineer and the reputation of the company he worked for would come into question.

It was imperative that he receive accurate information in order to resolve the problems that occurred periodically on those engines. This meant going to the original source, that is, the original designer of that particular part in question.

So it is, and even more so, that we go to the original and only designer of our bodies when things do not seem to work as well as they should. Rocket engines are complex machines, but our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God and are infinitely more complex than a comparatively simple rocket engine. How much more so should we seek Him, who made us, to get accurate information for our healing and to also get wisdom to prevent the onslaught of illness if God so desires?

Knowing this, it is imperative that we go to our architect, designer, and creator.

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For an excellent book on the intricacies of the human body, please read Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Phillip Yancy with Dr. Paul Brand.