 It
seems to me that doctrinaire all-by-chance Evolutionists do not actually
look first at individual fossils, as Darwin did, but directly at
Evolution as an already perfected fact, possessed of such self-evident
veracity that any other process, notably Design, becomes obviously
untenable -- "unscientific," as they put it.
Should I, then, hurry to challenge any of Evo's segments, thus assuming
to discredit the whole? Evo is prepared. "Any scientific theory must
have gaps," and the like. Details don't matter.
I
think the opposite way.
Like
Darwin with his fossils, I start by looking at details. And not just at
fossils, or rock strata, or comparative embryology, or even DNA, but as
much as I can take in. I look from the sub-fathomable atomic particle
and a single quantum of stringed energy to black holes thousands of
light-years across emitting cosmic forces driving a spiral Seyfert
galaxy, to the whole cosmos of galaxies and constellations beyond
Hubble.
From
primal atomic particles to huge but microscopic organic molecules, like
DNA, like the blood's array of auto-activated enzymes of the coagulation
cascade, each as complex yet as kinetic and interacting as the cosmos
itself. From viruses to Orca whales. From a paramecium's cilia to a
filamentous but somehow living mosquito's legs to Lance Armstrong's.
From hawks diving vector-straight to butterflies bobbing. I see the
shadows on the Grand Canyon or on my window sill relentlessly,
charmingly changing just because the earth rotates and orbits.
From
backlit clouds to the human mind, to his soul, to poetry, to science,
intangible things; to the sun, to nebulae, to galaxies, to the universe,
intangible beyond tangible beyond intangible. Any single thing is
persuasive. The aggregate is simply overwhelming. It is evidence. It
is self-evidently evidence demanding a designer if not a Creator. Also
self-evident is how, and that, Evoeans, unscientifically oblivious to
shadows changing, cells replicating, cilia and wheat waving, would scoff
off such an overview as prehistoric and poetic.
Well, speaking of poetry, Darwin is pretty good too.
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Dr. Wesley Kime, distinguished physician, retired in Ohio, paints with
oils, creates line drawings, and writes literary prose for pleasure. His
skilled portraiture, along with a take-off on Michelangelo's depiction of
the creation of man, were featured in an earlier, 2001 edition of Creation
Digest.
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