Where
Are We Going and Where Did We Come From?
Did we actually evolve from
a lower life form? Or were we created by an all powerful God? Science
has been pursuing this question ever since Darwin published his theory
on the origin of species.
At the time of Darwin very little was known about genetics or the
inner working of the cell. There was some knowledge of the function
of the major organs, but the inner working of the cell was a mystery.
With the recent advances in fields like genetics and biochemistry,
the inner working of the cell has been revealed. What has this new
knowledge revealed about our origins?
Information from genetics and the fossil record have clearly shown
that slow and gradual change from one species to another did not happen.
If evolution is how we came to be here, then it wasn’t by a
slow and gradual method.
Some evolutionists have suggested that evolution is still true but
that it happened in huge jumps. The theory they propose would say
that one day a lizard laid an egg. When the egg hatched instead of
another lizard being born, it produced a bird. Sounds pretty far fetched,
doesn’t it?
What about what science has learned about the inner workings of the
cell? In order for evolution to work, it must be possible for the
very first living cell to come into existence purely by chance. Because
of advances in biochemistry and molecular biology it is known that
an amoeba, a simple living cell, has over 2000 enzymes that have to
be there for it to function properly.
Each enzyme is made up of a long chain of several hundred or more
amino-acids (protein building blocks). The probability of forming
just one of these enzymes by chance is less than the chance of picking
up a winning lottery ticket off the sidewalk.
Clearly evolution is not how we got here. How did we get here then?
Michael Behe in his book, Darwin’s Black Box, states that life
is clearly the result of design. Just as all complicated machinery
has a designer, so also does all life. This Designer of life is God.
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