Creativity is a Product of Design

Although humans are classified as animals (which is biblically untenable), it is useful in scientific ways. To use self-serving rhetoric used by atheists and other evolutionists and claim that we are "just" animals is quite ridiculous. Biblical creationists have been pointing out notable differences for many years.

Some things we do that are not found in animals are composing symphonies, painting detailed art, sculpture, writing, nuanced language, photography, and more. Many of those things are aspects of creativity — which is an aspect of the Designer (Romans 1:20).

Picture of picture taking apparatus, Unsplash / Cowboy Bob Sorensen

Materialists appeal to naturalism and exclude anything supernatural, especially God, then think their belief system is "reality." (Ironic that their reality cannot come from from the science they claim to uphold). Creativity seems to originate in the imagination. Where is that located in the body?

Most secularists deny the existence of the soul, but cannot account for creativity, love, honor, logic, and other things that cannot be accounted for through evolution or any other naturalistic means. Other people can appreciate what has been created, sometimes with deep emotion. Secularists need to cowboy up and admit that what we have and experience come from the Creator.

As we enter the new year, it’s a common practice to resolve to try something new. Making new year’s resolutions, however, is easier than keeping them. We often procrastinate and put off expending the effort. I want to focus here on the process of beginning a new creative endeavor and what it takes to succeed. Does our creativity reveal another fascinating facet of intelligent design within our lives?

Suppose we want to create something, maybe small, like a short essay, or grand, like a new house. What’s needed to begin such a project? First, if we want to create something truly original, we must use our imagination. If I want to write an original story, I have to imagine the characters and how they might interact with each other in the circumstances that I will weave into the story. In other words, I must imagine the plot.

For the rest of this article by an Intelligent Design author, see "The Source of Human Creativity Is Intelligent Design."