At http://gordonfeil.blogspot.ca/2017/04/charles-vs-charles.html
I discussed one of the issues I have with the theory of evolution: the
complexity of life. How could the symbioses of today have gradually and
incrementally happened? When Darwin
formulated his theory, knowledge of how the mechanisms and components of life
work was scant compared to today’s understanding. Evolution might have made
sense to me if I lived back then.
My specialty is business administration, not biology
or chemistry, but I do have a brain and I do read, and I notice problems. Here
is one example of what I mean. As I
understand DNA, it is a very long sequence of “letters” that contain
information that is used in the development of the cells and body of which it
is a part, and this information becomes instrumental in determining the development
and functioning of those cells and body.
This lengthy sequence is fairly one dimensional on the face of it. That is, if that’s all that happens. But
apparently a letter in one part can affect the operation of a non-adjacent letter
located somewhere else in the strand, so that the interaction of the two has
consequences beyond those of each individual letter. This is just the
beginning. There is a third dimension also: DNA doesn’t lie as a long straight
strand. It bunches into what we might call a ball, and wherever a portion of
the strand is close enough to another portion, these portions modify the
effects of each other, with new effects that wouldn’t exist without those
proximities. Then comes the fourth
dimension. Sometimes, this ball will shift and portions will twist and open up
and then come together again so that letters are now affecting other letters,
and this action happens when a problem has arisen and the body needs a solution
to it that can be guided by DNA. After
the problem has resolved, the ball repositions into something like it was
beforehand. Frankly, this all speaks to
me of design…..of INTENTION. Anything else stretches my credibility.
Another problem I have with evolution is that is takes
time that I don’t see manifested in geological strata. How often I have seen
canyons in which layers of sediment deposits lie one on the other. If they were
laid down over the hundreds of millions of years geologists claim, I would
expect to see two things that I do not see. First, I would expect to see signs
of erosion of each layer since it would have been exposed to the elements before
the new layer was deposited. I don’t see that.
Further, I notice that there are waves in the strata (they are not
totally flat) and that the angle of the “surface” of each wave relative to the
horizontal is consistent with the angles of sand waves under water (< 25 degrees)
rather than sand waves on land (> 35 degrees). It appears to me that the huge
layers of sediment that we call the geological column were laid down very
quickly by hydraulic action. Not in millions of years, but maybe in
minutes.
Further, we get anomalies like soft tissue of
dinosaurs being found, such as the non-unique instance of the Triceratops tissue
found at Hell Creek in Montana. I’m talking about tissue that can be stretched
and bent, not fossilized material. There is no means by which such tissue could
survive 65 million years.
Unquestionably, evolution happens in the sense of a
species developing characteristics and abilities. Micro-evolution. We see it demonstrated
in many species. To me this attests to a design that envisioned various
problems that could arise and included potential solutions that them.
I am just scratching the surface of the problems with
evolution. I think people need to think more. Question more. Knowledge is
subject to fads.
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