(published Wednesday, 9:58am)
Even if I weren't a believer, my problem with evolution would still be the same: the theory of evolution does not explain how life began or how life was created ... a critical missing link which is openly acknowledged by evolution's proponents, because " investigating how [evolution] happens does not depend on understanding exactly how life began."
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That blind spot in evolutionary theory's vision should already have shoved Darwin's theory into extinction a long time ago ... but then, what do I know? According to Mr. Darwin, my great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaddy was a pond fungus.
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Think about this. Suppose that scattered around the planet was a group of engineered structures, let's say skyscrapers, bridges and highways, still in pristine condition yet which were so ancient that scientists determined their construction predated mankind's appearance on the planet.
In other words, suppose that there were eons-old buildings scattered all over the world that scientists believed had been constructed almost as soon as the earth's surface had cooled ... long before the first man drew his first breath.
No archaeologist or architect can explain where the structures came from or knows who built them, but that doesn't bother scientists too much: it's sufficient to observe that while today's buildings are more complex (with electric service, plumbing, and glass windows), they share many design features with the ancient structures.
Ergo (even though science remains unwilling (meaning, unable) to explain where those ancient skyscrapers came from, who built them ... or how any of structures were first assembled into a successful working design) the ancient structures must be man-made.
Let's call this new theory "Evolutionary Architecture." It's the only theory we've got about ancient architecture, but being the only theory makes Evolutionary Architecture our best theory, too. And being "the best theory" is as good as being "proof beyond any doubt."
But hold on a minute. If the ancient buildings were man-made, then who were the men who built them? Where did they come from, and where are they now?
Tsk tsk, answer the architectural evolutionists. "We're only concerned with investigating how buildings are built, and not with explaining anything about who built them."
Now let's play architectural scientist and apply our bold new theory in broad strokes to see if we can't re-color theology by exposing those old superstitions to the light of evolutionary architectural science:
"Because today's buildings (which have mass, height and width, as well as interior and exterior surfaces) are man-made and so closely resemble those ancient structures (which also have mass, height and width, as well as interior and exterior surfaces), that similarity of both design and structure conclusively proves the ancient buildings are man-made. And since we've proved all structures are man-made, then therefore, God does not exist."
Huh?! Doesn't it sound like we missed a few steps along the way somewhere?
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Isn't proclaiming "the fact of evolution" a bit like declaring you've crossed the finish line and won a marathon, without knowing exactly how and where the (human) race began? Or knowing who organized the event ... or especially, without wondering who gave you two legs to run with in the first place?
Ooops sorry, I forgot to play along: "Investigating how marathons happen does not depend on understanding exactly how the event began."
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why it is so dark you cannot see,
and why a flood of water covers you.
"Is not God in the heights of heaven?
And see how lofty are the highest stars!
Yet you say, 'What does God know?
Does he judge through such darkness?
- Job 22:11-13
"To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?" says the Holy One.
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one,
and calls them each by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.
- Isaiah 40:25-26
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
- Psalm 8:3-4
