Yes, yes.. I know this is OLD and crummy. Evolution vs. Creationism aka Intelligent Design.
Evolution: From single cell organisms, creatures on earth took different evolutionary paths through processes of natural selection.It all began with the Big Bang. Extinction happens to species that "go down the path to a dead end". It all sounds very logical. Though one question remains, what caused the Big Bang(personally the burning question for me is: are we really all made of stardust?!??!)? Also, even if there is a scientific theory to that (there are many put forward by physicists and astrologers), how did such a process cause life?
Creationism aka Intelligent Design: A supreme being created each and every creature. It sounds like an "easy-way-out" for something that could not be explained by many early "thinkers". Point to note, in many holy scriptures that cite creationism and intelligent design, there are thousands of species of animals that are not mentioned. For example, in the Bible, there was no mention of a creature that resembles a Kangaroo, and yet, there they are getting run over on the expressways of Australia today! This can be attributed to geographical positioning. Since the author(s) of the Bible probably never got a chance to cross the ocean to reach the continent of Australia, they never got to record it and send it into Noah's Ark, but yet.. THERE THEY ARE! This is but one of the many flaws of the argument for Intelligent Design, and allows for rampant skeptism from the scientific field.
While thinking it through, it occurred to me that while evolution seems very logical to me, with all its digestible, tangible evidence; To a person who believes in a God and his supreme power, Creationism actually has logical, empirical evidence - God created us.
The Big Bang theory left me wondering though, so what caused the big bang?
So conclusion for me, an Intelligent Designer CREATED the highly Intelligent Big Bang that will then go on a process of evolution, and what we have now is only part of a timeline.
In short, God created the big bang 3 billion years ago and decided to take a vacation for 500billion years. Now that, my friends, is remarkably effective management.
Do drop a comment on your thoughts, I'm interested to know what others think of such a widely debated issue.
I'm very inclined to say one thing though, Science cannot answer everything. Ask a scientist why are leaves of plants green, and he will tell you that its pigmentation of chlorophyll that plants use in photosynthesis. That is a scientifically accurate answer that has empirical evidence, yet it does not answer the question of purpose or meaning. Purpose and meaning are probably the most elusive of all answers Man seek, answers that Science alone cannot provide. Never mind if God created us or we evolved our superior intelligence - our expansive mind that continually seeks answers is a tool, and Science(addressing quantitative and evident issues) and Spirituality(to address issues of purpose and meaning) merely means to an end(answers). However much they might conflict, they will co-exist. Forever.
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2 comments:
Dear Mr Tongpui,
It is amzing that the nature has its own ways and methods for progress. Most of the living organisms follow some natural principles, which are simple but highly complicated in working. The same thing if want to repeat in a lab we may have to spend a lot of money, power and produce a lot of waste.
As you explained the chlorophil does a wonderfull job by converting CO2 and water into O2 and carbohydrates or sugars and all other other materials that a plant needs are derived from these by simple additions by using the energy from atmopsphere either UV or IR light as well as other components of light, even some sounds are also absorbed for essential materials. We being humans having brain we know only some of those natural plants how to use for our purposes but not fully.
I hope we may get a better evolution theories than big bang. The name it self say's that there exists some sound waves and also energy. I strongly feel that ther is some flaw in the theory of big bang as well as evolution theory.
"d.bheemeswar said...
....I strongly feel that ther is some flaw in the theory of big bang as well as evolution theory."
i agree fully. and as much as it is tempting to just go down the Intelligent Design path, that in itself is flawed as well
thx for input!
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