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 ideology of the science community, atheism. But he came to Christ.
“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 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 on YouTube. “So many things can go wrong that most of us should be born blind, but yet most of us are born with sight.”
Ming 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 they were teaching at. He was now studying medicine illegally, without any hope of becoming a true 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, you will be good. Knowledge will always be useful.” He says that his parents practically bribed the medical professors to let him through the medical classes, illegally of course.
In 1976, the Cultural Revolution ended, leaving an irreversible mark on that generation. China realized its mistake too late, destroying their future generation. This was an attempt to make them ignorant and never knowledgeable enough to realize that dictatorship is wrong.
Ming 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, Ming made his way to America with only $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,” Wang said on the Sean McDowell Show,
He finally became a doctor. Wang graduated from Harvard & MIT with a PhD and is now a world class cataract and LASIK eye surgeon, philanthropist and community activist.
This shows us that religion and science can coexist. Christianity helps us deepen our understanding about our purpose and even our own human anatomy, like in Wang’s case.
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About this writer: Owen Toomey studies at the Lighthouse Christian Academy near Hollywood, CA.
