By Owen Toomey–
Ming Wang immigrated to the United States with only $50 in his pocket from Communist China during the Cultural Revolution and became a world renowned Harvard-trained eye surgeon. He followed the atheistic ideology of the science community until God began to draw his heart.
“I realized that it is just impossible that the atheist worldview would hold: How could all these trillions and trillions of cells that combine themselves to form a functioning eye, in a short span of nine or 10 months during the pregnancy of a child?” Wang says on a Sean McDowell video. “So many things can go wrong that most of us should be born blind, but yet most of us are born with sight.”
Wang came from an extremely impoverished family in China during the Cultural Revolution. He had to do a number of things in order to move up in life.
During the 1960s, Wang had to learn to play the Chinese erhu violin and dance to avoid being sent to labor camps, where many youths in China faced hard labor and poverty. This harsh fate affected 20 million young people.
Wang was about to be sent to the labor camps, when his parents smuggled him into the medical school where they taught. He was now studying medicine illegally, without any hope of becoming a licensed doctor.
He asked his father, “Why should I study?” He didn’t see a point since he wasn’t going to get a degree or job from his countless hours of studying. His father said, “Knowledge will always be useful.” He says that his parents practically bribed the medical professors to let him through the medical classes, illegally.
In 1976, the Cultural Revolution ended, leaving an irreversible mark on that generation.
Wang was supposed to go back to 9th grade, but his parents fast tracked him to 12th grade. He was told he had a 1% chance to get into college. He did the impossible, using old exams to study 10-15 hours a day. Eventually, Wang made his way to America with $50 in his pocket.
“I was influenced by a young lady who was a dedicated Christian who was also studying to be an ophthalmologist and she brought me to this group of physicians who were Christian,” he recounted.
In response to the gospel message, he surrendered to Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord and was born again.
Wang graduated from Harvard and MIT with a PhD and is now a world class cataract and LASIK eye surgeon, philanthropist and community activist.
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About this writer: Owen Toomey studies at the Lighthouse Christian Academy near Hollywood, CA.
Dear Mr. Toomey, please share the following if you believe it has benefit.
Dr. Ming Wang, you are so beautiful, and in so many ways. I just had to comment. I am a 66 year old 3/4 Irish and 1/4 German American, born in the midwestern U.S. Born in Far East Asia, Young Chang is the name of my wife of 30 years (on December 23, 2024), a college student turned immigrant all those years ago. Her uncle was a fellow professor of mine in Colorado when he introduced me to his niece, Young.
For more than 4 decades, I dismissed all things spirit and spiritual as unscientific, a very different interpretation than your own. Despite my unworthiness, Yeshua kept “killing me with kindness,” and then doing so for Young and me as a team. The list of showers of blessings/graces, dotted with bona fide miracles, seems truly endless.
Thank you for your story, and for Mr. Toomey bringing it to our attention.
Michael E. Dwyer, Ph.D.
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