Saturday, May 9, 2009

Just a final thought on the science vs. non-thinking Christian debate. It is amazing to me how little logic is used in the evolution theory. I mean what is really supposed to happen. A one celled life form somehow develops from nothing, complete with all the millions of bits of information that are in each cell. That information is absolutely committed to replicating itself, but somehow it produces a multi-celled life form.
Next, so the life form somehow forms a muscle (just for argument's sake). The muscle just hangs around continuing to be produced for say millions of years waiting for something like a tendon to develop and of course attach itself arbitrarily to another body part that somehow formed. Well they need to attach to something so say somehow a bone forms (poof!) , But it turns out to be the jaw bone but this muscle always grows to the length of a leg. So these parts just float around in the life form for billions of years waiting for a chance meeting and a chance formation of thousands of other needed parts and for these parts to somehow all connect perfectly to make life easier.
So, say I decide I want to breathe through the top of my head because I like to swim and don't want to have to totally surface to breathe. Because I desire to do this somehow this triggers a process in me that begins to develop the needed parts. The problem is evolution says that this development is random (non-directional, chance mutations). If its not random then that means it has purpose or direction. that would imply there is inteliigence behind the process. So how did the one-celled life form decide it needed a leg. Like to the first life form what's a leg anyway and even if I decide I want one how do I change all the genetic programming in each cell (by chance) to form a leg and then somehow form other legs and appendages that I am not programmed to produce. And if evolution is depending on random changes, if in one generation I would produce offspring that somehow had more or less chromosomes than I have (How Does That Happen?) and is making progress toward having legs why wouldn't it in the next generation randomly change direction and become an arm instead of a leg, or maybe even a speg (that's a body part I just made up that hasn't been formed yet)? And for some life form that has never seen eyes (note the ironic use of language, seen eyes, get it), how does it go about forming them, reprogramming its genetic material over millions or how about billions of years to produce something that has never existed? If it continues to develop each needed part to develop an eye, that means there is purpose, intent, direction, may I say intelligence behind the design.
Those that say Christians deny science to believe that God created forget about the mathematical improbabilities of the development of these random body parts and their integration together in a fully functioning creature. If evolution is a slow process we should see billions of transitional forms all around us. In fact why would there even be specific kinds of plants or animals, we should all be in transitional stages. For instance we should see a reptile/bird that has a wing on one side and a leg on the other. Or feathers on one wing and hair on the other, you know real transitional forms.
Sometimes I like to think about how the blood vessels first formed and hung around for millions of years deciding how they would be able to reach every part of the body and then reconnect with the heart after of course the heart is formed. You know what blood vessels don't decide anything, they don't think! That would mean somehow the blood vessels were intelligently designing the body. There is no reasonable genetic reason for all the parts of the human body to develop randomly from mutations to form a system of organs that interrelate and work together. It is illogical to the highest degree. Every cell must be reprogrammed. Notice I use the word reprogram which in itself implies intelligence and purpose. Its hard to use another word to describe the systematic reorganization of genetic information for the purpose of reproducing something unlike yourself that can survive better than yourself.
If you want to take a giant leap of faith believe evolution. The theory is unique in that it was concluded by many scientists to be true before they could observe or specify how it took place. Usually you observe what takes place and form conclusions. With evolution we have the conclusion first, it is true, now we have to figure out a process by which it could have happened. Was it micro-evolution or punctuated equilibrium? We will stuff the evidence into our conclusion even if the evidence would tell us something different. So much for reason, logic or rational thinking. If a princess kisses a frog and it turns into a prince we call it a fairy tale, but if a frog over billions of years becomes a prince that is somehow good science. A sound thinking 5 year old could probably straighten out the science world if they were able to listen to sound reason. You know, like, Hey The Emporer doesn't have any clothes on!! Or we can stand in our smug intellectualism and deny the obvious, all the while thinking ourselves to be quite wise.

Professing themselves to be wise they became fools...Romans 1:22

2 comments:

  1. Amen.And, if we wait around for a few more million years the Emperor will realize that he does need clothes ; and he can grow a pair of khakis and a polo golf shirt; alligator patch and all.

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  2. Hey Ed, I'm sure you already know but... Recently I was absolutely blown away by a seldom noted fact about Darwin's work. The implication of his finding in the Origin of Species was intended to prove the superiority of the european races and thereby justify the imperialism of those nation - thus the subtitle of his book: "The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."

    Further, as I've been studying American history as of late pertaining to progressivism, I have learned that the root of modern liberalism is the belief that government is more an instrument of nature than an instrument of God. Therefore it must evolve without the burden of "inalienable rights" or "natural law" as it responds to whatever crisis comes its way just as an animal would evolve so that it may survive.

    Knowing this, progressives (liberals) see it as their duty to "gin up" crisis that forge what they see as the next step in the evolutionary progression of government. Pragmatism (which could be defined as"if it works it is good") becomes the new standard of good and evil. Woodrow Wilson, for example, wrote: "The arguments which induce popular action must always be broad and obvious arguments: only a very gross substance of concrete conception can make any impression on the minds of the masses; they must get their ideas very absolutely put, and are much readier to receive a half—truth which they can understand than a whole truth which has too many sides to be seen all at once." That's why he advocated a living, evolving constitution rather than a rigid, literal one. To him Darwinian science had done away with Newtonian theory which was good for its time with its laws and precepts but now seemed rigid in the face of their "superior" modern age.

    So the twentieth century in America began with men seasoned with Christianity's gospel of social justice but now founded on evolutionary science. Reformers began trying to bring the Kingdom of God through the work of men and government since God and absolute truth had been marginalized to give way for social evolution and pragmatism.

    Anyway. I am agitated right now. :) Love the blog.

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