Hey Jamie,
Provocative post! You've been
watching the news I presume. I have, quite against my own will, been mired
in this particular conflict for most of my life.
I think it is equally absurd to deny ,yes the fact, of
evolution as it is to think that the theory of evolution as it now stands is an
exhaustive theory of living systems.
Evolution, for instance, cannot be invoked as an
explanation for the original emergence of life. However this does not
entail that we are forced thereby to invoke an intelligent designer.
Living systems emerged from non-living natural systems and they are both
complex.
Didn't Robert Rosen point out that we are not constrained
to a false dichotomy between vitalism and mechanism?
What will the Intelligent Design crowds (yes that's
plural) say when living systems are created "from scratch" by humans in various
labs in the near future? And if those who establish these living systems
are also able to explain the why of it as well as the how of it (which is not a
given), then won't ardent evolutionists be forced to conclude that an
explanation of living systems must entail more than an invocation of survival of
the fittest?
I once heard an old Chinese curse, "may you live in
interesting times." I have also been told that wisdom resides in
knowing which battles to fight.
David ![]()
