Werner von Braun (born: 1912-1977) was one of America's most eminent aerospace engineers. From 1960 to 1972, he was the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He was the man in charge of developing the Saturn V, the world's largest rocket, used to carry men to the moon.

As the chief designer of the Saturn V, Wernher von Braun knew a few things about design. A 363-foot-tall rocket requires a great deal of engineering and planning. Some of the details that had to be considered were safely storing millions of gallons of explosive liquid fuel close to the extremely hot engines, designing the engines with enough power to lift a 6,400,000-pound object free of the earth's gravity, acurately timing the separation and firing of each of the three rocket stages, and making everything as light and compact, yet a strong and durable, as possible. And besides the brilliant engineers who designed the rocket, skilled craftsmen were needed to construct the rocket's many parts, as well as technicians to monitor the correct operation of each part down to the smallest hoses, valves, and electrical circuits.

Like the Saturn V rocket, the universe is a carefully designed creation. The construction and operation of the universe are complex beyond our imagination. The huge sphere of the sun, larger than 1.3 million Earths, is composed of countless tiny atoms so small that it would take at least 5 million of them lined up in a row to stretch across the width of your pen point. By means of the mysterious force of gravity, the sun holds planets, comets, and asteroids in precise orbits around itself. The movements of the planets around the sun, the moons around the planets, and the rotation of the planets themselves are so precise that we base our system of telling time and our calendars on the movements of the solar system, and scientists can predict accurately the locations of heavenly bodies many years in advance. When we realize that the sun itself is in constant motion as one of a spiraling group of about 200 billion stars known as the Milky Way Galaxy, and that the Milky Way is one out of billions of galaxies in the known universe, we are overwhelmed by the universe's immensity and intricacy of design.

Some scientists look at the universe and conclude it is all the result of an accident. They say that order and evidences of design are just coincidences. But can that be true? No one would claim that the Saturn V rocket is the result of chance or accident because it clearly shows the work of many intelligent human beings. Compared to the universe, a rocket is very simple. Dr. von Braun, himself a design engineer, had no difficulty recognizing that our universe is the handiwork of the Great Designer. He wrote, "One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be a divine intent behind it all."