Evolution: just a few questions... Part 1

Ahhh! I’m not done yet, but I’m so tired.

It’s 3 am, and I work a double tomorrow, so this is all you get.

Maybe in part 2 I’ll actually talk about evolution? That’s where it gets good.

Anyway, I said I'd talk more about evolution.

First, let me say that I realize I don’t have the most unbiased approach to the theory. I was raised in a Christian family--a very Christian family--and I’ve always believed in a quite literal interpretation of Genesis 1 as the origin of life on earth. I know the Bible is true, and therefore anything that contradicts it is false. That’s just the way I see it. Trying to convince me otherwise is utterly pointless. Really, I’ve never given evolution a chance, and I never will. When I listen to someone preach the theory, I don’t listen to determine if they’re right, I listen to determine how they’re wrong.

That said, I have listened.

You could argue that I’ve been programmed, but that is simply not the case. I know exactly what I believe, and I know exactly why. The Bible makes sense to me, and it’s the only thing that does.

I know more about evolution, and the “evidence” of it than at least 90% of the people who accept it as fact, and I’m not convinced. I’m not even impressed.

It’s a complete failure; it doesn’t even answer that many questions. It just pushes them back a few million years, so that they’re too dizzying to contemplate.

Not to mention all the questions it raises...

....Actually, I think I will mention a few.

Now the title says “evolution”, but I’m going to go ahead and throw the Big Bang theory in with it. Both present an alternative “answer” to intelligent design. We’ll call it the “No God Theory”.

Let’s just take a look at that theory. Ok, Wikipedia. Tell us where all this came from.

“The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model that describes the early development of the Universe. According to the theory, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe...”

Wait a minute. So I ask where it all came from, and your answer is “The middle”?!? What exploded? Ok, that sounds like a cheap shot. Here I am, picking on them for actually doing science. The Universe does appear to be expanding from a central point. That number comes from a lot of observation and math, as well as assumptions. For all I know, it could be correct.

Here’s my question: What started it? What caused the Big Bang?

Eternity, like infinity, is something that the human mind simply cannot fathom.

What troubles the mind even more? Nothing. That’s right. Just try to imagine nothing for a second. When you try to look for an answer to the origin of the universe, you are faced with a choice. Either something was always there, or there was a time when there was nothing.

What will it be?

Either way, there are no answers in the Big Bang. If all of the universe’s substance always existed, then what caused it to begin expanding 14 billion years ago? What changed? HOW COULD ANYTHING CHANGE?!?! And if it all just came out of nothing....

It’s obvious that force exists outside of time that we cannot understand. So far, the difference in our opinions is that I believe he has a conscious mind.  

“After this time, the Universe was in an extremely hot and dense state and began expanding rapidly. After the initial expansion, the Universe cooled sufficiently to allow energy to be converted into various subatomic particles, including protons, neutrons, and electrons. Though simple atomic nuclei could have formed quickly, thousands of years were needed before the appearance of the first electrically neutral atoms. The first element produced was hydrogen, along with traces of helium and lithium. Giant clouds of these primordial elements later coalesced through gravity to form stars and galaxies, and the heavier elements were synthesized either within stars or during supernovae.”

Um. Sure. I mean, that has to be it, right? When you cool universe juice down, it turns into protons. Cool. Oh? Neutrons too? You’re right. They definitely wouldn’t all become the same kind of particle just because they came from the same kind of energy. Things get more orderly and  complicated when you throw them around and knock them against each other, right?

I’ll be honest. I have no idea what I’m saying. I’m sure people put their life’s work into that paragraph; trying to figure out how something more complex than we can understand comes from something simpler than we can understand. But that’s just what they were doing: trying to find a way to make the theory work. That’s what they’ve been doing all along. Instead of looking for an answer to match the facts, they search for the facts to match their answer.

I look around the universe, and all I see are things breaking into smaller and smaller pieces.

Celestial bodies collide, shattering entire solar systems; black holes tear reality itself--destruction. Since when does random chance put things together? Or, when did it stop?  So there’s a force that causes these random happenings to stop when they find something that works? Does that make sense to you? I don’t get it.

I don’t know how much you know about atomic substructure. I can’t say I know very much myself. I do know this: an atom, even a lowly hydrogen atom, is no simple thing. A proton is a composite in itself, made from smaller particles of an unknown number and variety. As small as the universe is big, for all we know, an atom could hold its own universe, in constant, furious motion. It blows the mind. One atom. And not only are we to believe that this occurred by chance but that it occurred at least 1078 times.

!!!

That’s a lot. That’s a whole stinking lot.

That’s an unbelievable amount of order from chaos.

...Well, unbelievable for me. I just don't have that much faith is the power of chance.