This is just a random musing, but, in speaking to atheist
friends, I find they cannot answer the following:
If there is no God except Evolution, why is there such
variety in the world?
Take, for instance, an ordinary chicken. Why does the female
chicken lay an egg that thrusts her potential progeny out into the cold cruel
world before it has fully formed? Why, on the other hand, does a human baby
incubate in his or her mother’s womb for nine months? Is it that each being has
a different function – a different destiny?
If Evolution were truly the only force present in the
universe, how could there be such variety, such stunningly different designs
all over the world? Surely if life “determined” itself into being – as Stephen
Hawking so irrationally insists – it would “choose” the strongest and best way
to evolve! There would be no variety,
because Evolution as a force would not choose to produce weak beings – it would
“stick” to one form, one “expression.”
Ah, but perhaps evolution does not exist; perhaps there is a Designer Who wants variety because He
wants to please someone other than Himself…perhaps He wants to please His
creation – mankind!
Back to the chicken:
The age-old famous Chicken Question is this: “Which came
first: the chicken or the egg?” In my own experience, this very question is
supposed to reveal the utter “foolishness” of Intelligent Design.
“Neither came first,” the worshipers of Evolution maintain.
“One day, a random bird-like creature ‘decided’ to become a chicken, and so he
/ she laid eggs and – voila! – the next
generation of the bird-like creature became what we now gather eggs from for
our breakfasts."
Atheists want to believe in Evolution, but they just can’t
figure out how that amphibian crawled out of the primeval goo and “decided” to
become a chicken – or any other mammal or reptile or land-dweller. Luckily, some
people have grown beyond accepting the “the creature just decided” theory. There
really is no evidence – fossilized or experiential – that any creature (even man) “decided” to take on some other form.
(Remember, we are talking about eons
before plastic surgery!)
All the time, atheists insist that God – as an answer to where we came
from – is definitely out! But I repeat: Why
is Evolution apparently so “creative”? So far, the god Evolution hasn’t
answered its followers (although man, anthropomorphizing his idol, tries to put words into
its mouth).
There is delicate beauty in this world – a world where we
are supposedly at the mercy of impersonal forces. The touch of an infant’s
hand, a newly-opened crocus, a bud on the side of a fallen branch that insists
on opening and giving beauty, despite its ultimate doom – these are tactile and
visual facts which demonstrate the truth of a Creator’s involvement. Beyond the
delicate beauty all around us, even the most hardened of those who worship
Evolution are at a loss explaining how Love, Sacrifice, Joy, Patience,
Kindness, Self-control, etc., supposedly “evolved.” Although “evolutionary
psychology” attempts to explain away these phenomena as merely imaginary
constructs we sentient humans assign to them (“because we want to”), the truth
is that this so-called science which attempts to explain Evolution’s “purpose,”
is merely the latest falsehood that the worshipers of Evolution have dreamed
up so far. There is no outside
evidence to support their assertions.
Where does all this lead us with respect to our original
question? It points out how utterly foolish Evolution is as a rational theory.
The very fact that there is delicate beauty, as well as strong mental and
spiritual forces within man’s psyche, seriously undermines the idea of
Evolution as a rational explanation of how our world came into being. It just
isn’t that “creative.”
