a lot more sense than the Biblical Creation. If you have various forms of organisms struggling for survival for a huge period of time with their gene pools constantly changing, it is logical that in the end you will end up with pretty impressive species, because natural selection preserved all the good changes in genes.
Richard
Dawkins, one of the greatest atheist minds of today is a specialist in evolutionary
biology, and his contribution is in explaining to detail how genes shape
behavior of organism to preserve themselves. Now we know to a greater degree of the capability of genes to survive. They can do almost miracles to survive and to
spread.
When
you have a complicated organism which can multiply, the evolution is on its wheels.
But what Richard Dawkins almost never talks about because of his lack of ideas, and
what makes other evolutionists clueless is how do we get this original organism
that could survive and multiply. If we look at the simplest organism on the Earth,
it is by far more complicated than the greatest achievements of today's science.
It is by far more complicated than the fastest computer or the latest
rocketship programmed to orbit the Moon. What makes this problem even
greater is that evolution doesn't take place until this first „rocketship“.
There is no mechanism of evolution explaining the birth of the first organism.
The question of how did we get
here is maybe the most important question of life. And I personally can't be
satisfied with an answer that doesn't cover such a huge hole in the system.
Some say that the theory of evolution is explanation of life driven by
accidente. It is not correct. But this theory doesn't cover the forming of the
first organism and all we are left with is a guess that it ended up there coincidentally.
If I
abandoned God because He is illogical, I can't abandon the logic itself too.
"There is no mechanism of evolution explaining the birth of the first organism."
ReplyDeleteThis is where you are going wrong. DNA is a chemical replicator - which is able to make copies of itself. There are other known chemical replicators, which are simpler, and also exist in nature - crystal lattices for instance. Just because we haven't yet found out how it happened, and you are personally incredulous as to how it could possibly happen "by chance" doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
Gradual evolution of non-living replicators could well have happened over an immense time, eventually leading to the first "organic" replicator, which over time further evolved to maintain its own micro-environment (i.e. simple cells) to better enable it to replicate. All of this can occur gradually, without the intervention of a deity.
Just because you like the idea of a deity, doesn't make it true.
It's not true that we have no idea of how life originated. There are plenty of theories, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis.
ReplyDeleteAs with the most other mysteries, once this is solved, the need for God will be pushed into an even small space.
For Christians I would be someone who likes the idea of no-deity. Your argument is good, but lacks objectivity. Theory of evolution is a theory, and many of its aspects are yet to be proven. Science works in a way that when it sees a phenomenon, it thinks of a logical explanation which is yet to be proven. And when scientists say the sentence "Just because we haven't yet found out how it happened, that doesn't mean that it didn't happen", it usually means that they couldn't even make a guess that sounds logical. When Christians stumble on a similar problem with their faith, they use the sentence "One day God will explain us everything." I'm not happy with either of these two sentences.
ReplyDeleteThere are many theories about the birth of the first organism. Many of them were made when science still had no clue of the cell's complexity. Today there is no theory that is logical enough to be widely accepted and strong enough to destroy the other ones. That is why you still have scientists discussing, for example, a "soup theory" which involves a part described by wikipedia: "then magic happens".
I don't believe in God and I don't believe in evolution. If we find a good explanation for our existence, I would be more than happy to accept it. Because in the end, organisms that adapt to reality are the ones that survive :-)