08.21.08
Got Evolution?
First, I am not a big fan of the literal creationist crowd. Many of these people seem a bit obtuse for my tastes.
But many people fail to realize how much faith it takes to believe in a theory such as evolution as propagated by Darwin and other evolutionist. We are to believe that through chance mutation and random occurences that life grew from primordial goo to complex organisms. All of you mathematicians figure out the odds of that one. It is greater than the odds than when you calculate the probability of all the factors that make the Earth habitable and conducive for life.
Now people cannot deny evolution on a micro scale. It has been proven that species do adapt to their environments such as Darwin’s finch example with changes that help them adapt to an environment. There is a lot of documented scientific research there. However, it is dificult to prove that one species has morphed into another on a grand scale.
Creation as a whole cries out that their is something that has imposed order upon it. Life proceeds along orderly paths (albeit messy) and follows cycles and patterns that are seen in nature all around us. Modern science has tried to give us chaos theory, by pioneers such as Edward Lorenz, but even random events seem to follow circular patterns (aka “the butterfly effect”). Inevitably if there was once all chaos, what acted upon the chaos to impose order? Creation cries out the need for a creator. Many call this theory “intelligent design”.
Modern day scientists and humanists and scientific atheists all tell us that God and science are mutually exclusive with one another, yet I find that look and understanding creation of all that is around us screams out the role of a Creator. I have faith in that.
amoslanka said,
September 8, 2008 at 6:21 pm
You state this quite well. I stand on neither side, believing the matter to be irrelevant to the doctrine of a Loving God. At the same time, I enjoy playing devil’s advocate to both sides of the issue in conversation.
Several things you say hit the nail on the head.
It does take faith to believe in evolution. In many forms, in fact, evolution looks strangely like a religion in itself. This is the kind of dogmatic belief that has led in the past to eugenics and other humanist ideas. In essence, accepting a secular belief in evolution is determining that Man is God.
At the same time, though, the evolution of life or even macro-evolution depends much less on the odds of its happening. In the scope of never-ending time, if even the most minute fraction of odds exists, as long as its not an absolute impossibility, it is possible. If it is possible, the minuteness of the number does not matter.
I think it fair to say that micro evolution can be proved, though macro evolution, at this point in time cannot. It must remain a theory until at the very least, long after we humans living today are gone. If macro is possible, it will not happen within a small measured time span. Its very essence depends on hundreds if not thousands of generations of species.