Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Believing Impossible Things

Recently in occurred to me that for evolution to work it would require that a male and a female of a species develop the same characteristics within the lifetime of the other. Have you ever wondered how many species died waiting waiting for the sex organs of both genders to be present in the right place to permit procreation?

Then, how would nature know the problem was not with the sex organs but the problem was there were no feet?

How many died waiting for the other gender to develop the eye or nose or feet or paw etc that would permit the movement to meet their mate with everything in the right place only to discover they were sterile? How long would it take for another perfect match to develop and procreate?

I find it fascinating that there are those who believe that over an unknown period of time an unknown number of events spontaneously occurred resulting in nothing becoming matter. Then, over another unknown period, that matter evolved into some material that evolved into the universe and all forms of life. They do not address the reason and the cause of the spontaneous actions.

Either our universe is the result of Intelligent Design or it just happened.

Lacking logic various “theories” have been developed but any theory that does not address the beginning of matter misses the point of the theory, to explain creation of the universe. Scientists agree a theory is not fact only an only a hypothesis but we permit teachers to teach it as fact.

Accepting the Bible requires faith. Rejecting the Bible requires faith.
In Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll constructs an interesting dialog between Alice and the White Queen:

“Now I’ll give you something to believe, I’m just one hundred and one, five
months and a day.”
“I can’t believe that!” said Alice.
“Cant’ you?” the
queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your
eyes.”
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “One can’t believe
impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the
Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why,
sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
To avoid acknowledging God people choose to “believe impossible things.”

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