“So, after reading the book my current position of how life “evolved” is that we really don’t know. “
But we can make an intelligent guess. All we have to do is analyze the one example we do have available to us of evolutionary intelligent design, namely the evolution of all that which has been created by mankind and how that has occurred, and then comparing that to the structures and processes of earth’s biosphere and all that it contains.
In fact, we see the same design principles, structures and processes embodied in biologic life that we ourselves have used to create our own manosphere, which includes the totality of all man-made machines, systems, infrastructure and processes on earth. We see the principle of modular construction in life, as embodied by the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria. We see the reuse of common structures and processes throughout large numbers of highly varying life forms and at multiple levels. We see that chromosomes are a form of computer programming using chemical codons for coded byes and ribosomes as the computer.
We see that simpler life forms existed before more complex lifeforms, and that there has in fact been an evolutionary progression from simpler to more complex life forms over time, just as we’ve seen the evolution of discrete component digital computing evolve inthe 1940’s to the current massively integrated forms we have only 70 years later. Of course, when I use the word “evolution”, I mean “intelligently directed evolution”, not accidental evolution, with the latter of course actually being an oxymoron.
I’ve intensely studied computer programming, biologic processes and mechanisms and many other sciences for that matter, and to me, there is no doubt whatsoever that we and all other living parts of the earth’s biosphere were deliberately made by a higher intelligence than our own, and made in the same fashion as what we ourselves have made.
Personally, I believe we were made by beings somewhat similar to ourselves and only a million years (or maybe much less) more advanced than ourselves. And yes, that believe does indeed beg the question as to where THAT bunch of beings came from, but personally, I am satisfied just to know where we came from and not necessarily where everything came from.
Cat... You must have read “Darwin’s Doubt”?
Meyer says pretty much the same things you said (with a lot of reference material and impeccable logic to back it up).
He disagrees with you, though, that all life came from simpler life. His contention based on the Cambrian explosion is that the complex animal life that appears at that time did not “evolve” from precambrian eras (where only single cellular life abounds). His basic claim is that the Cambrian explosion was due to some sort of intelligent agent/force not neo-Darwinian evolution.
The title “Darwin’s Doubt” comes from Darwin’s own doubt about his theory with regards to the Cambrian explosion and the lack of complex animal fossils prior to that era. He rationalized the doubt in his own mind by asserting that with more research and excavations precambrian complex animal life would be uncovered.
But to this date it hasn’t.