It’s time to forgive Darwin and move on. We need to stop clinging to the fantasy of unplanned natural selection resulting in increasing complexity. Recent advances in science have made his ideas obsolete, but they are so entrenched that they are accepted. The prevailing view is that anyone who questions his ideas is probably a conservative, religious nutcase and is espousing “pseudo-science.”
Excuse me, but Darwin had no knowledge of DNA and what it
does. He did not know about computers
and the software that runs them, so he didn’t know that every cell in the body
of a living organism contains DNA which operates like a computer to give
direction to the cell. The type of
complex information which directs our bodily functions is an indicator of
intelligent planning…not of benevolent random accidents. DNA holds the code, RNA transmits it, and the
ribosomes take those instructions and create proteins which after assembly fold
themselves like “transformers” into little machines. The notion that this is not planned is
ridiculously unscientific.
So why do perfectly intelligent “scientists” cling to this
fantasy? It has nothing to do with their
abilities as scientists. It has to do
with their status as human beings who wish to be independent and make their own
choices.
If we admit that there is a superior intelligence who “created”
us and all living things, we might have to concede that we are in some way
responsible to him. We might have to
recognize that since he formed us, he might know what is best for us. For those of us who believe in him, that is a
comforting thought. For those who deny
his existence, that is a repulsive thought.
Human beings have an innate desire to determine their own future. Some are honest enough to admit that this is
foolhardy, but many will go to the grave gritting their teeth and declaring
their right to choose their own path.
Timothy McVey was no scientist…he was the Oklahoma City
bomber. Before being executed his last
words were from the poem Invictus, which includes, “It matters not how strait
the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my
fate. I am the captain of my soul.”
So, if you want to depart this life clenching your fist in God’s
face, you can make that choice. It is
your right, but don’t try to tell me that science disproves God. It increasingly points to him as a Grand
Designer.
Any chance you are rejecting with your will and not your
intellect?
