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That’s not how it works. It’s an accumulation of mutations that lead to new features, over several individuals.
So what we have through “evolution” is:
1. Life from non-life.
2. Spontaneous generation of irreducibly complex systems.
3. Sight from non-sight.
4. Flight from non-flight.
5. Intelligence from non-intelligence.
6. Aesthetic appreciation from previously non-aesthetic beings.
And all through “time, plus chance, plus the impersonal” (Francis Schaeffer).
Anyone who believes that has faith in “random,” or is a total hypocrite in what they assert, believing none of it. I would rather have faith in God, even though He transcends my intelligence. At least He doesn’t insult it.
So what we have through “evolution” is:
1. Life from non-life.
Well, *FLASH* + *POOF* doesn't quite explain the origin of life.
2. Spontaneous generation of irreducibly complex systems.
Give an example.
3. Sight from non-sight.
Mechanism explained by evolution.
4. Flight from non-flight.
Mechanism explained by evolution.
5. Intelligence from non-intelligence.
Mechanism explained by evolution.
6. Aesthetic appreciation from previously non-aesthetic beings.
Could you elaborate?
And all through “time, plus chance, plus the impersonal” (Francis Schaeffer).
Anyone who believes that has faith in “random,” or is a total hypocrite in what they assert, believing none of it. I would rather have faith in God, even though He transcends my intelligence. At least He doesn’t insult it.
To call it "pure chance", is to precisely insult your own intelligence by letting poetic metaphors force you to disregard a distinct possibility. Evolution is not akin to the mere toss of a coin. Each intermittent step, is dependent on the previous. The choices available for operation are basically at the molecular level - implying billions to trillions of interactions every moment, for a useful result to arise out of, in a time span stretching across 4 billion years. The Avogadro number, a quantity describing the number of molecules in a mole of a substance (1 mole of carbon is 12 grams) is 10 raised to 23, just to have a feel of the scale here.