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This link will be provided to my grandchildren, who are now exposed to academia's challenges of all things spiritual and eternal.
Sometimes, a single statement, such as, "If our minds were not designed, why would we trust them?" is the antidote for the "foolishness" of much of what passes for "education" today.
Reason and rationality are survival characteristics. If we couldn’t rely on them, we’d be unable to do things like store food for the winter, navigate successfully, or take advantage of physics or natural phenomena. This doesn’t even apply solely to humans. All animals, consciously or not, rely on at least rationality for survival, and several of the more “intelligent” animals appear to be capable of applying at least basic reasoning as well.
Criticizing evolution is criticizing God’s work.
This is not inconsistent with my observations of man.
If our minds were not designed, why would we trust them?
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The above is a cute aphorism, but is not in any way part of the construction of an argument that proves creationism, nor does it disprove evolution.
It is a statement of faith (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
The ability to evolve may well be part of the design.
The human genome is estimated to consist over over three billion DNA base pairs. Lets look at how large of a number that represents. If we assume that the base pairs are acutally pairs (not true, the number is acutally larger) that number can be expressed as
2 raised to the power of 3,000,000,000000
Now consider the following:
2^8 = 256
2^10 = 1024
2^64 = 18446744073709551616
The number of atom in the known universe is estimated at 4.0e^81 or 2 ^ 271
Now think about that. Compare the size of every known atom 2 ^ 271 vs 2 ^ 3,000,000,000,000 Now think of this as a brute force attack against that number. How does random trial and error get to your DNA which is only ONE of the 2 ^ 3,000,000,000,000
The understanding of large numbers is what leads many scientists and mathematician to believe in God.
You can't, as David Hume argued 250 years ago.
Drivel to promote a bigger offering
So how do you know God didn’t design things using evolution that evolution is not God’s pen a tool He uses??
“If all our acts are conditioned, then so are our theories. Yet your Behaviorist claims his is objectively true.”—Auden
Evolution = idolatry.
Bmk
Because why wouldn’t we? And have you noticed how lucrative the psychological and self help industries are? Maybe we really don’t.
The Theory of evolution is not a sufficient explanation for the origin of life, or of the human species.
1) something from nothing
2) symmetry, order, and beauty from disorder
3) consciousness, free will, reason, wisdom from matter
4) life from inanimate chemicals
5) anthropic coincidences from accidents
6) man from pond scum
7) human knowledge and values from a universe without absolutes
these beliefs are too much of a leap of faith for me
Makes my head hurt,