The problem people have with evolution is evidenced by this post. It is easy for the human mind to imagine a series of millions of small changes that lead to higher complexity. Just as it is easy for the human mind to imagine the fucking Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. All three things are imaginary.Ryan Rudolph wrote:Being of 1,
The problem people have with evolution is that it is very difficult for the human mind to imagine a series of millions of small changes that lead to higher complexity. What I like about the theory of evolution is that it explains how organisms NATURALLY diverge and change over time, without having to invoke the supernatural, or some sort of supernatural intervention, which has always been the enemy of science throughout the ages. Logical thoughts stops when you invoke the supernatural to explain how things arose. Cause-effect should never be violated in any explanation.
But anyone with scientific grounding sees that matter does not do this on its own. Evolution does explain that organisms naturally diverge - when one assumes that life is given. But how did it begin, and what keeps it going? Why can it be traced backward in time only if one assumes the origins of species and life forms converge as one goes further back? Converge to what, may I ask? That is the question you and every other staunch evolutionist neatly avoids.
Your problem, Ryan, is that you label some lines of thought as supernatural, when there is no such thing. You think if someone believes there must be more to the explanation than mechanical evolution that the "supernatural" is being invoked. By so doing, you dismiss serious inquiry by others while avoiding it yourself. There is no supernatural - there is merely what happened. And if you know the first thing about entropy and thermodynamics in chemical and physical processes, you would know that life violates basic laws unless the presence of other factors is assumed.
Once again, matter does not arrange itself spontaneously without outside intervention. The ordering began the process of life on this planet; therefore, the intervention had to come from somewhere else. Once the unfolding of life began, it appears to propagate itself. What is supernatural about that?
If the highest form of life on the planet was the amoeba, it would still have required outside intervention to have evolved from the constituent compounds and elements. Yet life has not stopped there. If matter can now contemplate itself and inquire into its own origins, I submit evolution has a direction - if the time duration of life were represented by Manhattan, man's duration is represented by slime on a railing in the Bowery (metaphor not original with me.)
The is no magic, just facts.