I’m just finishing a fascinating book called “Darwin’s Doubt” by Stephen Meyer.
Prior to reading this book, I was pretty much a believer in evolution as described by Darwin. After reading that book, I’m convinced that Darwinian evolution is at best a very incomplete description of how life on earth came about, applicable only for minor changes.
Meyer totally obliterates that theory, similar to the way a top notch prosecutor demolishes the case of a defense. He does so scientifically.
I recommend it to anyone interested in the subject and who has some nagging doubt about Darwin’s theory being able to explain some of life’s incredible creations.
As an alternative explanation Meyer proposes intelligent design (without necessarily involving a god). But I found that not very satisfying since he presents no evidence of how such an intelligent design would have occurred.
So, after reading the book my current position of how life “evolved” is that we really don’t know. Much more research is needed before we come up with the answer (if ever).
“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.