Creation Moment 12/23/2020 - Evolutionary Backpedaling

 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous... Psalm 139:14 NLT

 

"Prof. William Thorpe of Cambridge University’s zoology department declared: I think [it] is fair to say that all the facile speculations and discussions published during the last ten to fifteen years

explaining the mode of origin of life have been shown to be far too simple-minded and to bear very little weight. The problem in fact seems as far from solution as it ever was. The origin of even the simplest cells poses a problem hardly less difficult. The most elementary type of cell constitutes a "mechanism" unimaginably more complex than any machine yet thought up, let alone constructed by man (Hitching 68).Francis Hitching, a member of the Royal Archaeological Institute and the Prehistoric Society of England, speculating on what happened in the Cambrian Period, when the first life appeared suddenly in the fossil record, noted that the current theory of an accidental, random union of protein molecules in a warm pond to form the first life leaves unanswered the crucial question of what sudden event caused the single-celled creatures to develop into highly complex multicellular ones; and what evolutionary or biological mechanism there was to permit this to happen. In a sense, it just pushed the problem back earlier in time. The origin of multicellularity remains "the enigma of palaeontological enigmas" (Ibid. 19).Other scientists are coming to the same conclusion. For example, Dr. Michael J. Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University, discovered that even the simplest chemical compounds from which all life sprang — the building blocks of life — are "irreducibly complex," and that such mind-boggling complexity effectively rules out chance as the cause of life as we know it. He writes in his book Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution: Despite comparing [gene] sequences and mathematical modeling, molecular evolution has never addressed the question of how complex structures came to be. In effect, the theory of Darwinian molecular evolution has not published, and so it should perish (Behe 186).Prof. Behe is not alone, as the Boston Globe reported in 1993: Some evolutionary biologists conclude that the development of complex, conscious life was all but inevitable — and, perhaps, the result of a grand design (Flint 1)....Advances not only in cosmology but in other fields have contributed to the interest [in Intelligent Design], scientists say. Some evolutionary biologists, for example, have been grappling with the question of how the molecules that led to intelligent, self-aware living things first formed — and a consensus is growing that it wasn’t entirely random. "Discoveries in biology in the last 30 years present a whole new world view, a whole new stage on which to think about origin and creation," said Ursula Goodenough, a geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis (Ibid. 12).After decades of convincing people that chance was the all-powerful mover behind evolution, advocates of Darwin’s theory are now trying to backpedal, saying that chance was never the prime mover all along." Gerard Wakefield