Let's take for example the human body. We have everything we need to successfully interact with the physical world we inhabit. We have every sense that is necessary. We have eyes to see stuff, take note of that information and determine our actions. We have ears to hear sounds, the cry of an infant, the voice of a friend. We have noses to smell flowers, steak as it's cooking, a burning building. We have tastebuds to enjoy a delicious dinner or to warn us of poisonous plant, and touch to express concern or to feel our way in the dark.
Imagine if say just eyes had never evolved. That would be awkward. Really awkward. We could still have survived as a species (or maybe not), but it would be with a very different level of enjoyment and accomplishment in our experience of living. But it's not just those five senses we evolved by chance. What about the heart? A perfectly tuned pump that, under normal circumstances, operates reliably and efficiently for 70 to 80 years at least. Man still would struggle today to design an artificial pump that lasted half this long without needing to be replaced. And even at that, such a pump would require years of design. Not chance. You could leave the non-working parts of this pump on a table forever and they would never jump together and start pumping. Inert, dead matter will never do that as far as we have found. Yet evolutionists believe that is exactly what happened with millions of aspects of human, animal and plant experience. The dead parts are believed to have magically come together (in the right sequence mind you) and more amazingly still, then starting working. Faith? Evolutionists have awesome faith.
And it doesn't stop there. We could talk about the immune system, the liver, the human voice, the digestive system, the lungs, the oxygenation of blood. Or take this one : the reproductive system. Now there's a fortunate co-incidence for evolutionists. By chance, yep pure chance, we evolved the ability to reproduce ourselves perfectly. It would have been a real bummer if, having got through all the thousands of hoops we got through to happen to evolve all our organs, if we then had no ready means for reproduction. The "experiment" would have been short-lived. The human reproductive system is of a simply brilliant design (sorry to offend with the use of that non-evolutionary term again). Without upsetting any children present or their mothers, suffice it to say that all the parts needed are present. They work together perfectly, beautifully even - and the result? A baby is conceived, grows safely in an ideal environment for nine months and then, emerges as a small but fully functional other human being. Amazing is what is is. Outstanding.
We are only scratching the surface of the amazing topic of the human body. What do evolutionists (yes, millions upon millions of them) actually believe? That all of this exists by mere luck and good fortune and the apparent inevitability of what is termed "the survival of the fittest". Not just once, but hundreds and thousands of times. All of which happened for no reason, but we're jolly glad it did. What are the odds involved against all human characteristics and functionality evolving by chance? 1 to the power of 1000? 1 to the power of 1,000,000? I'd say you can add many more zeros. The odds in fact are preposterous. But evolutionists believe it anyway and seem to sleep at night and somehow get through the day. And a lot of these people say they find it too hard to believe in God.
What are the chances, eh?
A well written piece but you're falling into a trap that a lot of creationists do; you're demanding the reader look at all the beautiful and amazing things you see as lone pieces. To call on your jigsaw puzzle analogy from the previous post, it is as though you are looking at the few pieces you have while presupposing what the picture on the box looks like without taking into account what is actually on the box and where and when you found the pieces. Evolutionists do not believe the human body just popped into existence as you are suggesting, that we developed all our handy dandy organs just cause. They understand that many factors, such as environment, diet, predators and disease influenced what stayed and what was bred out of the human form. These changes all occurred over long stretches of time, not within a couple generations. And what makes it even more believable is the fact that our bodies are far from perfect. We are so prone to disease, even stuff that is good for us in small amounts can hurt us in large doses ie hypervitaminosis. Heck, even our gestation period is only nine months because any longer and a mother couldn't keep up with the energy demands of the fetus (http://tinyurl.com/9ddd83e) even though a longer gestation period would result in less helpless infants.
ReplyDeleteActually, speaking of reproduction, you mentioned that it was some sort of miracle that we could reproduce ourselves perfectly, but even a single celled organism can do that, our own cells do it every day. The baby making process may be more complicated than that but it is far from a miracle. In fact before science jumped in it was even extremely dangerous for a woman to give birth (Although many anthropologists believe that prior to the invention of agriculture gestation was shorter and babies were smaller because women weren't able to eat as well as they needed to sustain a longer pregnancy, birthing was still hazardous). Even today in developing countries where medical treatment is not so freely available, this is a big problem. In 2011, there were approximately 273,500 maternal deaths, 90% of which were in third world countries. 25% of these deaths were caused by hemorrhaging. The act of giving birth is literally so traumatic to the body it can cause internal bleeding and death. If this is a perfect system designed by a divine creator he has some twisted sense of humour.
So yeah, there is a lot more to evolution than 'some stuff appeared and we kept it'. Don't just look at the current edition of the product and say that it was always like that, will always be like that and is like that just because. Part of the beauty of the world is the fact that nothing can exist in a vacuum, everything has an effect. Like the wolves of yellow stone (http://tinyurl.com/pgntxye), one little thing that seems completely unrelated to everything else can drastically change an entire system. This is what evolution is about. So yes, it is about chance, not wild, non-sensical chances, but little unexpected changes that add up to one amazing whole.
Basically I'm saying don't just watch the trailer and get mad at the movie before you see it.