What's the Deal With Ignorant Physicians?
- From: The Pooflinger <thepooflinger@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:22:43 -0700 (PDT)
http://www.pocatelloshops.com/new_blogs/community/?p=4169
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Is it one or the other? Don’t ask me to give up my faith. Don’t ask
me to give up my science. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? What did Darwin
say about evolution, about random chance? What does the Bible say
about intelligent design, about God? I refer to the Bible because
that is my faith. To those of other faiths, I apologize for not being
able to articulate your beliefs as I wish I could.
Darwin’s theory is that random genetic mutations occur, those
beneficial to the organism are preserved and passed on, and those not
beneficial are eliminated by natural selection. With billions of
random genetic mutations a single cell will evolve into a human
being. This is theory, not fact. An example used to demonstrate how
this occurs is bacterial resistance to antibiotics. But, when a
bacterium “develops” resistance to an antibiotic, is it evolution or
is it simply adaptation? Was a new organism created or was an
existing organism adapting? Was Darwin observing evolution or was he
observing adaptation?
Darwin had doubts about his own observations saying, “And to think the
eye could evolve by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd
to the highest degree.” Evolution requires billions of random genetic
mutations beneficial to the organism. But true genetic mutations are
rare and beneficial genetic mutations are even rarer. Evolution also
requires the first living cell to spontaneously generate life. Yet,
while we cannot create anything as intricately complex as a single
living cell, we are asked to have the reasoned “faith” that life
occurred by chance, spontaneously, in a cell infinitely more complex
than Darwin ever imagined.
A man of faith was contemplating the existence of God. As he mused to
himself, he picked up a handful of dirt and quietly said, “God, do you
really exist? After all, we are close to making life from a handful
of dirt, just as You did.” A quiet voice in his head firmly
responded, “Make your own dirt.” This is not meant to be trite, it
makes the point that there is so much more we cannot explain than we
can explain.
In his later years Darwin also said, “. . . to my astonishment the
ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.” Isn’t
this a reasonable perspective on the theory of random genetic
mutations creating all life? Is it more a religion because of the
“faith” needed to believe in the spntaneous generation of life?
Personally, I cannot accept random chance over intelligent design. The
magnitude of faith, however reasoned, needed to believe in spontaneous
creation of life in one cell, then mutating over billions of years to
a human being is just too staggering. We cannot understand all the
complexities of the universe, yet we consider those near infinite
complexities may have occurred by random chance rather than by
intelligent design. Which is more logical, more plausible, more
reasoned: intelligent design or random chance?
What of intelligent design? As I said, my faith is the God of the
Bible so I can only write from that perspective. And if I recall
correctly, there are two places in the Bible where God says His time
is not our time. Although I find it a bit dangerous to extrapolate
meaning from only two short references, I will proceed to do so
anyway. What if God does see time differently? What if one day to
God is 1 billion years, rather than our 24 hours? What if God spent 6
billion years creating the universe in a scientifically understandable
manner, and then rested for 1 billion years? Is that inconceivable?
Would that diminish the power of the God of the Bible or would it
enhance it? Doesn’t either way demonstrate the power of an
Intelligent Designer?
If there is an intelligent designer, who designed the designer? If
the universe is finite, what is on the other side? If the universe is
finite but ever expanding, what is it expanding into? Both sides can
ask each other these types of unanswerable questions. God is not
diminished because we cannot fathom the Designer. Science is not
diminished because we cannot fathom either an infinite universe or an
ever-expanding universe not knowing what it is expanding into.
When I try to understand the complexities of the arguments on both
sides of this issue, I find I am lacking several Ph.Ds. But I can sit
and contemplate this with my own logic, however flawed it might be. I
find spontaneous generation of life implausible. I find equally
implausible a single celled organism evolving into a human being via
natural selection, if just allowed enough random genetic mutations and
time.
Isn’t intelligent design more compatible with the complexity of the
universe, the scientific age of the universe, the mathematical and
physical details of the universe? These questions and observations
are meant to be for our consideration. Each of us must make our own
choice. It’s worth some thought.
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