CEN Technical Journal 14(2) 200082 Papers Ecology, biodiver- sity and Creation

‘Lord, you have made many things …. All these things depend on you to give them their food at the right time. ’ 1 Ecology, the study of natural relationships, has revealed numerous essential ‘biodiversity services’ without which, ecosystems could not function in their present form. Biodiversity studies emphasise the need for preserving intact ecosystems, but also unintentionally speak about the origin of ecology and even of the origin of life. The necessity of func tioning ecosystems today suggests they would also have been needed in the past. If this is so, then a reasonable explanation for ecology is that living things were designed with the capacity to function within ecosystems