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It has always been clear to me that the authors of the Jewish scriptures did not have evolution in mind, period - "Evolutionary Creationism" or otherwise. Everything was created in the past tense, literally instantaneously...you know, like magic, like pulling a rabbit from a hat.
If God is the author of DNA, he would not have to retain the DNA of the past specimens of any species in the specimens of modern species unless he wanted to fool people into thinking the species evolved without creationism being involved.
Personally, I wouldn't use Evolutionary Creationism material for the very reason that EC makes even less sense than God poofing everything into existence 6,000 years ago in a garden in Eden with the appearance of great age. Either way, though, it could only have the purpose of fooling people and that God really is the author of confusion.
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As I see it, we have four choices:
1. God created everything approximately six thousand years ago; which is the literal interpretation of Genesis. This is flatly contradicted by hundreds of million of pieces of empirical scientific evidence and therefore can be dismissed without further consideration.
2. The Earth is billions of years old and God created all of the living species approximately six thousand years ago. The same hundreds of million of pieces of empirical scientific evidence which disproved (1) also refute any form of recent global creation. Therefore (2) can also be dismissed as impossible.
3. God set Evolution in motion; either in a deterministic way which from the start controlled the outcome (Ken Gilmore); or by periodically intervening at various stages along the way to guide Evolution (Alan Hayward). This can only be a theoretical hypothesis, because its thesis is so contrived that it is not falsifiable. Any theory that is not falsifiable by definition cannot be proved. In a similar way, modern String Theory cannot be proved because it cannot be falsified. Therefore it remains a theory that is lightly held by physicists until such time as experiments designed to falsify the theory have failed. Noted Theoretical Physicists like my friend Professor Lawrence Krauss reject String Theory. But this does not cause a stir in scientific circles because everyone knows that the theory is conjecture. Evolutionary Creationism (EC) is conjecture, because the Bible does not support such a theory nor does science. Until and unless we can think of experiments that attempt to falsify the theory of EC, it can only be lightly held as a theoretical possibility that is about as likely as that Bigfoot used Evolution to create humans. Such a 'Bigfoot Evolutionary Creationism' theory is not falsifiable and therefore cannot be proved. Divine Evolutionary Creationism is no different.
4. Evolution, including Biogenesis, and the spontaneous explosion and inflation of our universe is a result of the natural laws of the cosmos. Very large parts of this theory ARE falsifiable; but not all. Evolution is perilously open to falsification, but since its inception and despite millions of tests, no one and no experiment have been able to falsify the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. The classical "finding a rabbit fossil in the Cambrian" falsification test has never succeeded and none of the other hundreds of millions of fossils discovered have ever been found in the wrong geological strata. Therefore this theory can be held as true with a high degree of certainty.
Recently, the name of "Corky" was mentioned. Here is his photograph and an interesting article on Evolution.
ReplyDeleteAs the "John" in the title of this article I have to say that I am inclined to think that there may be a 5th explanation to the origin of life on Earth. I have long been concerned about the fact that life on Earth originated from a single ancestor. Why one and not two? Why not a billion? Moreover, life on Earth originated only a few million years after it became possible for the Earth to sustain life. So, the origin of life on a planet must be a relatively simple process. But if it is so simple, why did life not originate multiple times? After fighting a running battle with the Evolutionary Creationists for approximately two decades I have come to the conclusion that they might have a point. Certainly not that Evolution was guided by a personal God. I’m an Agnostic. But what if life and consciousness is an intrinsic property of the Universe? What if the purpose of our Universe is to create life and ultimately consciousness so the Universe might know itself? What if the Universe itself is propagating life and the blueprint of Evolution is written in the original RNA? In other words, what if the Evolutionary Creationists are right? But in place of the Christadelphian God, we replace him with the Universe itself. I don’t have a shred of evidence for what I am saying. But I am saying that I am not the Evolutionist that I was. I suspect that something else is at play here. The Quantum World of our microscopic universe appears to be the source code of our macroscopic universe and it appears to be written in fundamental particles in the same way that the genetic code of life is written in our genes. There is too much complexity and the sheer raw power of intelligence in the microscopic universe. I suspect that the Victorian concept of Evolution, or Neo Darwinism, is not the whole story. I detect the guiding hand of some metaphysical force. Not God. I repeat. Not God. But something that we have yet to discover. Watch this video and ponder what it means: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKb4zcyqjXQ&ab_channel=PBSSpaceTime
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