Post by homeschooldad on Mar 3, 2024 15:24:34 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/29/life-earth-origin-chemistry/
This article totally fails to defend the notion that life on earth just fell into place by random chance, that somehow, all of those proteins, amino acids, and what have you, after probably countless failures, "found the sweet spot" and made themselves into that first living cell, from which, to hear evolutionists tell it, you, me, that goldfish in the bowl, those weeds out in the garden, and woolly mastodons all evolved.
Finding the building blocks of life is a good thing. But there's a problem. You can pull all the ingredients together, but as far as making that first cell, there has to be an intelligent designer, and not just that, but that one cell has to divide, and divide, and divide, and to differentiate, and to mutate, all of this within the short space of six and a half billion years. Pure evolution would have taken a lot longer than that. So I guess that at some point, they'll just expand the time frame. They'll have to.
It takes far more faith to believe in that scenario, than simply to believe that some omnipotent intelligence either orchestrated and directed the process, or intervened at crucial points (all those gaps in the fossil record!), or just cut to the chase and made each type of creature with certain attributes that make them what they are. It's well within the power of the Creator to do any of those things, or any combination thereof.
I'm not necessarily positing a six-day, 144-hour creation scenario that happened only a few thousand years ago, but neither do I swallow the arguments of the pure evolutionists. There's a lot of "maybe", "probably", "scientists think", and so on, and that's not exactly a strong argument or a strong proof. The only "dogma" that the pure evolutionists embrace --- and a dogma it indeed is --- is that a providential Designer, outside of the process and in charge of it, couldn't possibly have had anything to do with it.
This article totally fails to defend the notion that life on earth just fell into place by random chance, that somehow, all of those proteins, amino acids, and what have you, after probably countless failures, "found the sweet spot" and made themselves into that first living cell, from which, to hear evolutionists tell it, you, me, that goldfish in the bowl, those weeds out in the garden, and woolly mastodons all evolved.
Finding the building blocks of life is a good thing. But there's a problem. You can pull all the ingredients together, but as far as making that first cell, there has to be an intelligent designer, and not just that, but that one cell has to divide, and divide, and divide, and to differentiate, and to mutate, all of this within the short space of six and a half billion years. Pure evolution would have taken a lot longer than that. So I guess that at some point, they'll just expand the time frame. They'll have to.
It takes far more faith to believe in that scenario, than simply to believe that some omnipotent intelligence either orchestrated and directed the process, or intervened at crucial points (all those gaps in the fossil record!), or just cut to the chase and made each type of creature with certain attributes that make them what they are. It's well within the power of the Creator to do any of those things, or any combination thereof.
I'm not necessarily positing a six-day, 144-hour creation scenario that happened only a few thousand years ago, but neither do I swallow the arguments of the pure evolutionists. There's a lot of "maybe", "probably", "scientists think", and so on, and that's not exactly a strong argument or a strong proof. The only "dogma" that the pure evolutionists embrace --- and a dogma it indeed is --- is that a providential Designer, outside of the process and in charge of it, couldn't possibly have had anything to do with it.