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Evolution: an Oblique approach.
One of my little sayings about life is: "Satan
will always offer you two clear-cut opposing choices,.... both
of which are wrong." Example: 'eat the fruit and be as smart as God'
or 'don't eat it and be a dummy.' Another, 'turn that stone into bread
and prove that you're God's son ' or 'if you don't turn it into bread I'll
know you're a fake'. The choice between Evolution and Creation is another
example of this.
First though, let's define these two terms;
Evolution and Creation.
Evolution, for the purposes of this discussion
is the total development of life without any outside help or direction.
Creation, in this discussion, is the production
of all life by God.
Evolutionists seem to maintain that if
they can produce life artificially, that they would, in fact, prove
that nothing miraculous is needed to produce life.
Creationists, on the other hand, maintain
that, no matter how much engineering and design a human could put into
assembling molecules, they could not produce life.
In this they both err.
Evolutionists, by designing molecular assembly
and structure, are in fact imitating the role of God. (and in fact
are using pre-provided, pre-engineered building materials, lego-bits,
as it were).
Creationists, by saying that no amount
of human engineering and effort can produce life , are saying that
the 'life-force' is a religious/special substance and not an engineered
force or effect. When in fact, everything God has made shows design and
law. Why would his life-force be ungoverned by law and undesigned?
So, if a human engineer could produce life,
it would in fact demonstrate the need of a designer. And that all facets
of life are thought-out (designed). Including the life-force.
Which brings us to a simple solution: It
can be illustrated in this manner; If two people were walking along
a path and one of them found a tiny watch gear, neither one of them would
conclude that random forces had produced this perfect little gear, they
would say "designed". If they continued walking and found a complete gear
mechanism they would say "even more design". And they might even comment
on the quality of manufacture and materials, not even questioning the fact
that it was designed and manufactured. Continuing on, our peripatetic
purusers may find an entire watch, whereupon the one finding it says "Wonderful!
What a well-made watch." To which the second person responds "No, the
dirt here just fell together that way". The one who found the complete
watch has simply continued to be intellectually consistent; complex organization
requires design and manufacture. Whereas the second person has stopped
being intellectually consistent.
You know where this is going. If the increasing
level of complexity in a physical object elicits the unarguable conclusion
"designer", then extreme complexity demands the same.
That is of course, unless Evolutionists
feel that life is not a physical object/effect. In fact, by holding
'life' to a different set of proofs from any other physical object they
are treating it as a religious/special substance, and fall,
by a different route, into the same error as Creationists.
Life is in fact physical, and wholly designed/engineered.
Forensic proofs of design and manufacture
that would hold up in any court for that complete watch would by logical
and legal necessity hold true for any complex physical mechanism.
Evolutionist and Creationist both make
a fatal error in treating life as other than any other wholly physical/designed
thing.
Creationists are setting themselves up to soon
be in the same untenable position as the Catholic church was during the
Galileo Galilei episode. This, because the probability of man-made life
is very likely to happen, and probably soon.
And Evolutionists are /(will be) exploiting
this weakness (perhaps unconsciously) to their own detriment.
Oblique Conclusion:
Evolutionists, by not evaluating "living things" with
the same objective scientific/forensic proofs of design that the scientific/forensic
method demands of any other complex object, fail to be consistently scientific.
How ironic.
Creationists, by regarding and treating "life" or "the
life-force" as a religious/special substance, actually deny "intelligent
design" for "life" itself.
How ironic.
Neither Evolutionist nor Creationist are self-consistent
with their own core beliefs,
How very ironic.
Saying that life is wholly designed in
all of it's facets does not dishonour God, but gives true and due recognition
to the order of magnitude of it's design. (and maybe puts us in our place.)
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