So I
guess my question is can those of you who consider yourselves to be
creationists
admit to the clumsiness of your belief compared with the elegant simplicity
of the
natural selection mechanism?
Brian
Hi Brian,
Delighted to meet a fellow agnostic. You urge us to consider "random
mutation and natural selection as an explanation for macro evolution".
Most atheists are committed to the theory because it explains a universe
without plan, purpose meaning or design and most religious people question it
for the same reason. If you are an agnostic you will have no emotional
commitment to either view. It is merely your intellectual judgement, taking
all the evidence into consideration, that complexity of life is devoid of
intelligence -- something which occurred accidentally, the result of
meaningless, random processes, and was then acted upon by natural selection.
(Remember, something which worked had to exist before natural selection could
ever have anything to "select".) As for "elegance", people seem inclined to
regard any simple formula which explains everything as "elegant". One of the
first was the idea that the universe was composed of earth, fire and water.
More recently was the billiard ball universe, the idea that matter is
composed of atoms resembling miniature planetary systems. If you are really
an agnostic, you can discuss all of these ideas without questioning the
intelligence or sincerity of people whose thoughts differ, and I hope you
stick around.
Bertvan
http://members.aol.com/bertvan
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