At a time when I wasn't so familiar with science, I heard about the complexity of the eye, and I had jumped on
the wagon, to say "take that you unbelieving slime", after learning more about science, and evolution, I understood
that it wasn't the complexity of the eye that mattered but the "irreducible complexity" of the eye, at that time I knew
that my prior assumptions were wrong, though the eyes are quite complex, they are not irreducibly complex, and we
can trace them back to simple patches of photoreceptor cells, and we can witness the reduced complexity forms of
the eye in creatures such as the nautilus with his pinhole camera of an eye.
Complexity is not an argument in opposition to evolution, "irreducible complexity" is, but as of now, it seems that there
are no areas of our biological being that cannot be reduced.
Sometimes I read the author of my science book, talk of the complexity of a single cell, DNA, blood, in amazement,
and he does not have to point to God, to say that these intricacies of internal components are complex--but let us remember
that they are not irreducibly complex.
Complexity does little to phase evolutionary theory, and to preach of complexity to fellow theist is preaching to the choir,
to prove evolutionary theory wrong you need a component of biological life, that is irreducibly complex, and so far
none have been found.
As a Theistic Evolutionist, I believe complexity points to the existence of God, but not the complexity of the inner
life of cells, Sometimes in reading of these intricacies, I find a temporal sensation of the existense of God, and
when I hear someone lecture on Intelligent design, I want to tell him that the moment has passed. If my faith was based
on such things, then I would have lost belief a long time ago.
Yes, I believe complexity points to the existense of God, but not in these temporal things, men try to sell me on.
I see a woman who struggles every day of her life, in the morning she prays, and in the afternoon she's filled with joy,
and when she smiles my candle is lighten, all the complexity of a cell does not come close to such a moment.
Francis Collins describes such a moment, as he was approaching a Nigerian farmer who knew he was soon to die:
"But then this young Nigerian farmer just about as different from me in culture, experience, and ancestory as any
two humans could be, spoke the words that will forever be emblazone in my mind: "I get the sense you are wondering
why you came here" he said. "I have an answer for you. You came here for one reason. You came here for me"
Doestovsky writes of such a moment: "A mother rejoices, when she notices her baby's first smile, the same as God rejoices each time he looks down from heaven and sees a sinner standing before him and praying with all his heart"
He goes on to say that, there is something in such a moment that atheism will eternally glance off, but it seems as
though it is not just the atheist whose eyes are dulled, but the believers as well.
the wagon, to say "take that you unbelieving slime", after learning more about science, and evolution, I understood
that it wasn't the complexity of the eye that mattered but the "irreducible complexity" of the eye, at that time I knew
that my prior assumptions were wrong, though the eyes are quite complex, they are not irreducibly complex, and we
can trace them back to simple patches of photoreceptor cells, and we can witness the reduced complexity forms of
the eye in creatures such as the nautilus with his pinhole camera of an eye.
Complexity is not an argument in opposition to evolution, "irreducible complexity" is, but as of now, it seems that there
are no areas of our biological being that cannot be reduced.
Sometimes I read the author of my science book, talk of the complexity of a single cell, DNA, blood, in amazement,
and he does not have to point to God, to say that these intricacies of internal components are complex--but let us remember
that they are not irreducibly complex.
Complexity does little to phase evolutionary theory, and to preach of complexity to fellow theist is preaching to the choir,
to prove evolutionary theory wrong you need a component of biological life, that is irreducibly complex, and so far
none have been found.
As a Theistic Evolutionist, I believe complexity points to the existence of God, but not the complexity of the inner
life of cells, Sometimes in reading of these intricacies, I find a temporal sensation of the existense of God, and
when I hear someone lecture on Intelligent design, I want to tell him that the moment has passed. If my faith was based
on such things, then I would have lost belief a long time ago.
Yes, I believe complexity points to the existense of God, but not in these temporal things, men try to sell me on.
I see a woman who struggles every day of her life, in the morning she prays, and in the afternoon she's filled with joy,
and when she smiles my candle is lighten, all the complexity of a cell does not come close to such a moment.
Francis Collins describes such a moment, as he was approaching a Nigerian farmer who knew he was soon to die:
"But then this young Nigerian farmer just about as different from me in culture, experience, and ancestory as any
two humans could be, spoke the words that will forever be emblazone in my mind: "I get the sense you are wondering
why you came here" he said. "I have an answer for you. You came here for one reason. You came here for me"
Doestovsky writes of such a moment: "A mother rejoices, when she notices her baby's first smile, the same as God rejoices each time he looks down from heaven and sees a sinner standing before him and praying with all his heart"
He goes on to say that, there is something in such a moment that atheism will eternally glance off, but it seems as
though it is not just the atheist whose eyes are dulled, but the believers as well.
