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Design Demands a Designer
I think anyone with the correct circuitry in their brain will conclude that design obviously demands a designer. However it is emphasized in evolutionary thinking that the look of design in biology requires no designer. Materialistic evolutionists have thus convinced themselves that design is but an illusion theistic evolutionists who throw God into the equation believe no differently if they insist that the evolutionary process is how God created.
I have been laughed at because I believe that God was the creator (engineer) of the many complex biological systems we see today almost instantaneously and not through small increments as by the evolutionary process. My accusers are convinced that only an uneducated person would believe thus for they say that an eye says nothing about a designer who understood something about optics, or the ear says nothing about someone who knew anything about the physics of sound. And worst of all, that the brain was the result of unguided processes and says nothing about a designer who knew something about computer circuitry!
For you see those who laugh at the idea of God creating the universe laugh no more when they understand how unscientific evolution really is. Take for example the evolutionists formula for life.
Matter + energy + time = life
Since evolutionist defend their theory with such zeal, show me where life has ever arisen in nature on its own per evolutionary methodology. Non living matter does not organize itself into living matter spontaneously anywhere under any condition given any amount of time. No scientist today works with this formula, and here is the reason why, because life as we know it never did - whether it be in the past, present or future came to be by the above method!
And now look at the creationists formula for life:
Matter + energy + time + information (thought, concept, idea) = life
There is no doubt that this is the formula that all scientists at this very moment are using. By adding their own intellect into their experiments, using controlled methods and existing genetic information they are able to produce other varieties of life to a desired potential.
Within an evolutionary worldview it would seem that biologists have convinced themselves that natural processes on its own can account for all the mechanisms and machinery necessary for life. Never realizing however that knowing how something works is a far cry from knowing how it came to be. In fact at this very minute an engineer is very hard at work at designing, planning, testing, and redesigning his own version of lifes machinery and laughing to himself why didnt I think of that before when he gets a step closer. So have the biologists stumbled on to something that the engineers have not? Perhaps the only real laughter heard are the engineers who are laughing at the biologists for their ignorance of the intelligent input required to bring about the very instruments they are using to prove their point that no intelligence was required.
Since much of creationist arguments center on the idea that design demands a designer, should we throw away all our use of intelligence in designs and work on the evolutionist model of no design? Should we also abandon all the technological advances earned through hard work and intelligent input in favor of unguided natural processes?
They are convinced you know that only prideful fools ignore the plethora of assumed evidence for evolution. For what reason can scientists this day and age can deny the facts of evolution and still be called a true scientist? There are many scientific reasons why, the most important being scripture itself (the word) information. I am not annoyed though that they feel this way about creationists such as myself because they have their reasons for believing what they do just as I in what I do. I am aware of the many claims made for evolution but it is not ignorance of this evidence but my faith in God that compels me to reject the process of molecules to man evolution.
My point is that as true followers of Christ we know that the whole of this creation was created in a short span of time and not over eons as evolutionists would like us to believe. After all what glory is there for an omnipotent being to create in such a slow method that one cannot even begin to appreciate his handy work? And how is it that a system of creation can both be used for and against his existence? From everyday experience we know that in order to design or create anything intelligence must be applied. In fact the level of complexity of something is determined by the amount of information that is required to build and assemble it that is the more information and know how that is applied the higher the level of technology.
We must understand how Christians have gotten away from the position that God created in days and not in long periods of time. It is not really difficult to understand intellectually why believers in Christ could consistently accept evolution. However more importantly there is no Spiritual reason for Jesus himself affirmed the historical account of the creation of man and woman in Genesis 1 and 2 in Matthew 19:36.
It would seem that Christ was affirming the historicity of Genesis in saying that male and female where made distinctive from the beginning, while the emergence of the separate sexes - according to evolution happened separately and without guidance in pre-Adamite times. Now you may say that in this instance Jesus was only quoting the writings of His day and that He did not really believe in a literal meaning of Genesis. Or that since the Jews believed in the writings of Moses and in Genesis, Jesus may have simply quoted this to go along with them. However, to avoid misinterpreting Christ in this instance one needs to look closer at the claims that He makes. It is very clear from scripture that Jesus Christ claims to be "the way, the truth and the life", but how can He claim to be the truth and yet knowingly taught a myth? To say that Jesus would purposely teach a myth as fact is nothing short of saying that He was a liar. So was Jesus Christ a liar or did he really believe in a literal creation of male and female as recorded in Genesis?
In closing my philosophy has always been to learn everything that I can that is useful. However, learning is only meaningful when it has eternal value. All of us have arrived on earth only recently. Civilizations, language and life as we know it already existed. What we know is taught to us by others - table manners, history, origins, and hope. Each persons life touches another, learning, teaching, inspiring and passing on what knowledge we may have acquired until we return to the dust from which we were created - leaving all earthly things behind. Slowly, inevitably things will get dusty and forgotten or rewritten or lost. Theories come and go, but the wholesomeness of the Word of God, His everlasting Love and Truth will always remain with us.
God bless.
I think anyone with the correct circuitry in their brain will conclude that design obviously demands a designer. However it is emphasized in evolutionary thinking that the look of design in biology requires no designer. Materialistic evolutionists have thus convinced themselves that design is but an illusion theistic evolutionists who throw God into the equation believe no differently if they insist that the evolutionary process is how God created.
I have been laughed at because I believe that God was the creator (engineer) of the many complex biological systems we see today almost instantaneously and not through small increments as by the evolutionary process. My accusers are convinced that only an uneducated person would believe thus for they say that an eye says nothing about a designer who understood something about optics, or the ear says nothing about someone who knew anything about the physics of sound. And worst of all, that the brain was the result of unguided processes and says nothing about a designer who knew something about computer circuitry!
For you see those who laugh at the idea of God creating the universe laugh no more when they understand how unscientific evolution really is. Take for example the evolutionists formula for life.
Matter + energy + time = life
Since evolutionist defend their theory with such zeal, show me where life has ever arisen in nature on its own per evolutionary methodology. Non living matter does not organize itself into living matter spontaneously anywhere under any condition given any amount of time. No scientist today works with this formula, and here is the reason why, because life as we know it never did - whether it be in the past, present or future came to be by the above method!
And now look at the creationists formula for life:
Matter + energy + time + information (thought, concept, idea) = life
There is no doubt that this is the formula that all scientists at this very moment are using. By adding their own intellect into their experiments, using controlled methods and existing genetic information they are able to produce other varieties of life to a desired potential.
Within an evolutionary worldview it would seem that biologists have convinced themselves that natural processes on its own can account for all the mechanisms and machinery necessary for life. Never realizing however that knowing how something works is a far cry from knowing how it came to be. In fact at this very minute an engineer is very hard at work at designing, planning, testing, and redesigning his own version of lifes machinery and laughing to himself why didnt I think of that before when he gets a step closer. So have the biologists stumbled on to something that the engineers have not? Perhaps the only real laughter heard are the engineers who are laughing at the biologists for their ignorance of the intelligent input required to bring about the very instruments they are using to prove their point that no intelligence was required.
Since much of creationist arguments center on the idea that design demands a designer, should we throw away all our use of intelligence in designs and work on the evolutionist model of no design? Should we also abandon all the technological advances earned through hard work and intelligent input in favor of unguided natural processes?
They are convinced you know that only prideful fools ignore the plethora of assumed evidence for evolution. For what reason can scientists this day and age can deny the facts of evolution and still be called a true scientist? There are many scientific reasons why, the most important being scripture itself (the word) information. I am not annoyed though that they feel this way about creationists such as myself because they have their reasons for believing what they do just as I in what I do. I am aware of the many claims made for evolution but it is not ignorance of this evidence but my faith in God that compels me to reject the process of molecules to man evolution.
My point is that as true followers of Christ we know that the whole of this creation was created in a short span of time and not over eons as evolutionists would like us to believe. After all what glory is there for an omnipotent being to create in such a slow method that one cannot even begin to appreciate his handy work? And how is it that a system of creation can both be used for and against his existence? From everyday experience we know that in order to design or create anything intelligence must be applied. In fact the level of complexity of something is determined by the amount of information that is required to build and assemble it that is the more information and know how that is applied the higher the level of technology.
We must understand how Christians have gotten away from the position that God created in days and not in long periods of time. It is not really difficult to understand intellectually why believers in Christ could consistently accept evolution. However more importantly there is no Spiritual reason for Jesus himself affirmed the historical account of the creation of man and woman in Genesis 1 and 2 in Matthew 19:36.
It would seem that Christ was affirming the historicity of Genesis in saying that male and female where made distinctive from the beginning, while the emergence of the separate sexes - according to evolution happened separately and without guidance in pre-Adamite times. Now you may say that in this instance Jesus was only quoting the writings of His day and that He did not really believe in a literal meaning of Genesis. Or that since the Jews believed in the writings of Moses and in Genesis, Jesus may have simply quoted this to go along with them. However, to avoid misinterpreting Christ in this instance one needs to look closer at the claims that He makes. It is very clear from scripture that Jesus Christ claims to be "the way, the truth and the life", but how can He claim to be the truth and yet knowingly taught a myth? To say that Jesus would purposely teach a myth as fact is nothing short of saying that He was a liar. So was Jesus Christ a liar or did he really believe in a literal creation of male and female as recorded in Genesis?
In closing my philosophy has always been to learn everything that I can that is useful. However, learning is only meaningful when it has eternal value. All of us have arrived on earth only recently. Civilizations, language and life as we know it already existed. What we know is taught to us by others - table manners, history, origins, and hope. Each persons life touches another, learning, teaching, inspiring and passing on what knowledge we may have acquired until we return to the dust from which we were created - leaving all earthly things behind. Slowly, inevitably things will get dusty and forgotten or rewritten or lost. Theories come and go, but the wholesomeness of the Word of God, His everlasting Love and Truth will always remain with us.
God bless.
