Posted on 06/18/2005 7:04:07 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Few e-mails have ever stopped me as cold as the one I am about to describe. In it, the author, a former university professor who wishes to remain anonymous, claims to know the actual mechanism behind intelligent design. That is the mechanism by which God created the universe, our world and all biological life within it.
This is especially intriguing as Darwin's theory of evolution is now hotly contested by arguments of intelligent design. One weakness of ID is its failure to offer a mechanism to counter evolution's bogus explanation of diversity through macro-mutation. As a result, ID has failed in broad view to distinguish itself as a true scientific theory on the origin of life.
Now, I admit the original e-mail has all the makings of a possible hoax. On the other hand, it could possibly produce one of the most fantastic breakthroughs in scientific theory since Darwin. So which is? I'll let you decide.
For the sake of brevity, what follows is an excerpted and edited summary of the author's theory. Additionally, I have expanded a few key concepts for clarity. A link to the full text in its original format can be found at the close of my commentary.
The mechanism behind intelligent design
This theory comes from a critical analysis of the Big Bang theory, Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and quantum physics. The concepts behind this scientific knowledge can be understood by any person with a modern education and should be known to all.
In the Bible, we are told that God created the universe out of nothing by using light. This is confirmed by modern cosmologists. They acknowledge physical existence had a beginning from complete nothingness (no time, no space and no matter). Then from a single focal point of light the physical world came into existence initially in the form of sub-atomic particles, i.e., the Big Bang theory. Of primary importance were the protons, neutrons and electrons, the basic building blocks of all matter that now exists in the physical universe.
After this explosive event, these sub-atomic particles were sometime later transformed into atomic nuclei and the various elements. When asked why the sub-atomic particles joined together into the more complex arrangements of nuclei and elements, science answers that it is due to the "electromagnetic force." This EMF is carried out through an exchange of photons, which are light energy. For example, a photon is emitted by an atom during a transition from one energy state to another.
Both the Big Bang event and subsequent arrangement of sub-atomic particles, therefore, provide our first opportunity to see light as the interface between the non-physical (spiritual) world and physical existence. Think about it. From light came matter. Then that matter was organized into various elements by EMF.
This is supported by Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity concerning the characteristics of light. Specifically, photons of light can behave dually like a stream of high-speed, submicroscopic particles, but also like a wave phenomenon. A wave is defined as a disturbance that propagates and carries energy. As a wave, light does not show the physical property of mass. This non-material characteristic, once again, reveals light as an interface between the non-physical (spiritual) world and the physical universe.
Science can confirm at the sub-atomic, atomic and molecular levels that changes are often due to information passed by an exchange of light energy. Unfortunately, as we reach the next level of complexity, which is the progression from the molecular stage to biological life, the processes exceed our current ability to appropriately dissect. But through logic, extrapolation and preliminary scientific findings, we may fairly hypothesize that the same method of applying EMF/light is used as in the earlier stages of progressive development.
For example, the changes from one life form to another may require only slight alterations and/or additions to the overall structure of the DNA molecule. These small structural changes would not occur by mutation as the theory of evolution suggests, but rather by EMF causing and creating ever-increasing complex relationships between the nucleotides along the DNA strand. The combined effects of these small structural changes to the DNA molecule would be sufficient to create progressively complex physical life. This explains how a human has only double the number of genes as a fruit fly. The amount of DNA didn't need to proportionately increase with human complexity; rather complexity of the relationships among existing nucleotides needed to increase.
This hypothesis on the origin of life provides a scientifically testable alternative to the mechanism of macro-mutation offered by evolution. My reason for sharing this theory is that I find it intriguing, but I do not have the expertise in physics to test it adequately. I do know as a molecular biologist that Darwin's theory is unworkable. So my hope is this presentation will intrigue others who are qualified to determine whether this theory has sufficient merit to develop it further, dismiss it entirely or rework into something more plausible.
In closing, it is of interest to recall that according to the Bible, God created the world and all that is in it through Christ Jesus who identifies himself as the Light of the World. The full text of the e-mail can be read at http://www.ScienceMinistries.org.
Kelly Hollowell, J.D., Ph.D., is a scientist, patent attorney and adjunct law professor of bioethics. She is a senior strategist for the Center for Reclaiming America, a conference speaker and founder of Science Ministries Inc.
Char
Totally umauthorized message from all of Christendom: we coulda tolja that!!!!!!!!!!!
There is something that rings inevitably bogus about an "anonymous source" with a "revolutionary mechanism".
I won't waste my time.
There is something that rings inevitably bogus about an "anonymous source" with a "revolutionary mechanism".
I won't waste my time.
Oh beautiful. Another thread for the Evo-Nazis to bash other peoples beliefs.
I thought the Big Bang had been discarded as unworkable in favor of M Theory. Membranes in 11 dimensional space and all.
My anonymous source tells a different story.
When light first came to the earth, O-ma-ma-ma the earth mother of the Cree people gave birth to the spirits of the world. The first born was Binay-sih, the thunderbird who protects the animals from the sea serpent, Genay-big. Thunderbirds shout out their unhappiness or anger with black clouds, rain and fire flashes in the sky. The second born was Ina-kaki, the lowly frog who heightens the sorcerer's powers and helps to control the insects in the world. The third born was the trickster Wee-sa-hay-jac, who can change himself into many forms or shapes to protect himself. The fourth child was Ma-heegun, Wee-sa-hay-jac's little wolf brother. They travel together with Wee-sa-hay-jac on his back. The fifth born was Amik the beaver, who is greatly respected because he is an unfortunate human from a different world. Fish, rocks, grasses, and trees all came from the womb of the great earth mother O-ma-ma-ma. The earth was inhabited a long time by only animals and spirits because Wee-sa-hay-jac had not yet made any people.
Creationist scientist says: Who inthe wrote this sh=?
Soooo glad to see another of your creation stories. I know it is difficult to check historical data, but the Bible is historically correct in everything that we have been able to verify. Not one inconsistency to date. While this may not prove the story of Genesis scientifically, it certainly lends credence to the possibility that it may be devinely inspired writing.
Kelly repeated shows she does not know her Bible very well.
(Gen 1:1 KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
(Gen 1:2 KJV) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
water came before anything, or at least, was the only visible form of any matter.
For her to state that God used light to form matter, she is ignorant of the very first 2 verses of the Bible and their implications to Creation.
Or maybe another thread for the Creation/IDers to bash science?
With name calling like "Evo-Nazis" you are off to a good start there. Or are you just assuming your side is right and everyone else is stoopid?
This is the funniest thing Ive ever said gnite to in my life. wa hoo. ha
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Tune in,ah!!!
"Genesis and the Big Bang" and "The Science of God" are two good books on the subject by Dr. Gerald L. Schroeder" former MIT prof. and now teaching (last I heard) in Jerusalem.
How do you know that a turtle didn't bring up mud after the flood, or Coyote and Eagle didn't create people? You are choosing your beliefs about creation over the beliefs of others, when you have the same scientific basis for them as they do (i.e., none).
I assume nothing, I know from lurking on many Evo threads that you and your fellow believers will gang up on anyone who disagrees with you. Any moment the Evo ping will go out and I will be flamed mercilessly until the thread runs out of steam. Evolution is a flawed theory that is constantly being reworked. IF the day comes that evolution is a proven fact, instead of a belief, let me know.
I think the evo-nazis will pass on this one.
I'm no Darwinist, but EMF is non-ionizing because it lacks sufficient energy to move protons and neutrons around. It affects electrons only, and that effect is temporary with the net effect ultimately zero (an electron moved away from one atom is replaced immediately by one freed from an adjacent atom). That is electron drift, the basis of electric current. If nonionizing EMF could mutate DNA so readily, radio and TV engineers would be terribly mutated creatures begging to be killed to end their suffering, and the rest of us sitting in from of the high-voltage cathode-ray tubes of computer monitors would likely be not much better off.
Better study the methods of science. There are no "proven" theories or "proven facts," not even gravity or electricity. Scientists know evolution is a theory, but unfortunately some with strong religious beliefs make a big deal of this as they think that by labeling evolution a theory they can discredit it. "Its just a theory, nothing to take seriously."
This just demonstrates a lack of knowledge of the workings of science.
That's fine, now would you explain to me where all the water came from? It can't be easy to create water, yet the world is overflowing with it. Where did it come from?
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