Intelligent Design

pokemaster
Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:04:52 +0000

I think what is hard for people that believe in ID and creationism to swallow is the probability that the various complexities of life would evolve. That is because 6 billion years is really hard to fathom. 6 billion (6,000,000,000) is a long long time, and as I said, there is evidence to suggest that prelife earth’s environment was favorable for spontaneous generation.

Likewise, some people find it hard to believe that something as complex as a human eye evolved. Well, human didn’t just suddenly evolve eyes. It probably evolved gradually, from simple photoreceptors (such as the ones of a planaria) incrementally.

And some people dispute the validity evolution because they say that they cannot see it today. Well evolution and natural selection is happening everyday. Think about insecticides. When an insecticide is first introduced to an insect population, it may wipe out 99% of the insects. A second application of the poison doesn’t wipe out nearly as many of the insects. This is because after the first application, the insects that are resistant to the insecticide are left to reproduce. As Campbell says it, evolution is an editing process. Most people I believe are misinformed and think that organisms evolve (i.e., morph to adapt to the environment). This is untrue, because it is populations that evolve.