[asa] Origins: Francis Collins and ID

Hi all, a question I have; maybe you can help me.

  Given that evolution actually happened because of evidence in biology
(genome evidence), how can evolution explain the complexity of things
like the eye?

  Francis Collins says the answer is to appreciate the vast amounts of
time.

  This still bothers me.

  I'm perplexed because I see both sides. The genome shows proof that
evolution happened. Yet, using reason, it seems impossible that an
undirected evolution can create something as complex as the human eye
(no matter how much time is involved). (I work at Intel in CPU design,
and even though out CPU's are super complex, it is nothing near as
complex as our body, DNA, etc.).

  I wonder if the solution is to see evolution as God-directed. DNA is
like a programming code, God is the programmer, directly manipulating
the code. It is like intelligently solving the rubic's cube (toy) by
one turn at a time. Randomly, you could solve a rubic's cube given
enough time, but intelligence would do it rather quickly. Is this
solution contrary to science? Is this the point where naturalistic
science and God meet? Or am I just putting God in there because I can't
appreciate the time element of evolution? (Some think that nature alone
can evolve, and that by God's design upfront with the anthropic
principle... designing everything upfront so it would unravel correctly
from a big bang.)

  I would like to know what the other theistic evolutionists have to say
on this topic.

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Received on Mon Dec 3 13:28:42 2007