How amazing that such little things stir an almost mystical sense of wonder! A tiny blue flower graces an old stone wall, a skylark chattering jewels of summer joy, a starry eye, sunrise over frosty fields, or a new born baby - Oh, what a wonder; a wonder that it is all here and that I am admiring it with so much wonder! How could this be so; is it just a trick of evolution that makes me think I and my world are worth preserving, just for the wonder of it? Is it a clever sleight of hand that makes it all seem worthwhile or I wonder if there might be a deeper reason? · IT'S ALL HERE! If the origin of the amazing genetic code has a purely natural explanation, then we need a chemical theory of the science of meaning built on a base of naturalistic belief.
However, without delving too far, let's just note that whatever theorising is going to take place is now happening after the horse has already bolted the stable door.
You see, it's already happened; we are already here, and awed just looking at it! And don't we tend to take so much for granted.
And that's when we begin to find this sense of wonder, precisely when we don't take that trivial little blue flower for granted.
· SHOOTS ITSELF I am proposing that evolutionary theory kills itself.
Why is that? - Quite simply, because it destroys the validity of human thinking.
Astonishingly, Charles Darwin remains a towering intellect, because a lot of people delight to exalt him as an icon and prefer to hang on in the desperate belief that we are all part of a completely meaningless accident.
And therein lies a major fault line because, for all the intellectual brilliance of Charles Darwin, the theory advances a most remarkable feature - that it undermines the validity of the reason used to postulate the theory in the first place.
What this means is that if Darwinian organisms had actually evolved to the point where some cerebral grey matter begins to appear, nothing in naturalistic science, nothing in the theory itself is able to account for how life might develop with self-conscious minds able to postulate, with rational objectivity, their own origin, as if it all existed in a meaningful cosmos.
That stupendous claim is just believed and taken for granted.
So, forget your sense of genuine wonder, it's nothing but an illusion! · INSUPPORTABLE On the basis of Darwinian theory, no one would ever have the powers of reason sufficient to know that it knows and be able to say, 'Yes, on the basis of my own thinking, I conclude that while I cannot support the high view of my reason inherited from my Western background of Judeo-Christian belief, and now reject that higher view, I find that I am left with a problem.
That if I debunk the higher view, I elevate the lower animal view to take its place, but in abandoning the higher view I find I have also lost the ability to engage in meaningful science.
Why is that? As I've said, the horse has already bolted the stable door.
In a naturalistic cosmos there is no final basis for meaning.
We only find significance and meaning in an understandable cosmos into which the rational Creator has written significant meaning, some of which, even my own mind, finds wonderfully understandable.
And that's why, even evolutionists, who inconsistently use their high view of reason to undermine its objective validity, still have a sense of borrowed wonder! · STILL WONDERING? On the basis of their own fictitious, evolutionary beliefs, the evolutionist's sense of wonder is, strictly speaking, nothing more than an illusion, because nothing is objectively wonderful; that would be saying far too much - that a wonderful Creator has filled all things with significance, and given me that capacity to admire it, and that then I ought to bow my head in worship of the living God who has created me with this wonderful gift to marvel, and to discover, and value what I behold! Yes, indeed, a good place to begin is to acknowledge that the great Creator has also become the mighty Redeemer, taking the place I, as a moral rebel deserved, in his death upon the cross.
Now in awed amazement, I ask him to forgive my foolish thoughts and bow to his wisdom revealed in Scripture, even to a view of his grace and glory, 'All things were made through him (Christ the Word), and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men...
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth' (John 1:3-4 & 14).
Oh, what a wonder!
However, without delving too far, let's just note that whatever theorising is going to take place is now happening after the horse has already bolted the stable door.
You see, it's already happened; we are already here, and awed just looking at it! And don't we tend to take so much for granted.
And that's when we begin to find this sense of wonder, precisely when we don't take that trivial little blue flower for granted.
· SHOOTS ITSELF I am proposing that evolutionary theory kills itself.
Why is that? - Quite simply, because it destroys the validity of human thinking.
Astonishingly, Charles Darwin remains a towering intellect, because a lot of people delight to exalt him as an icon and prefer to hang on in the desperate belief that we are all part of a completely meaningless accident.
And therein lies a major fault line because, for all the intellectual brilliance of Charles Darwin, the theory advances a most remarkable feature - that it undermines the validity of the reason used to postulate the theory in the first place.
What this means is that if Darwinian organisms had actually evolved to the point where some cerebral grey matter begins to appear, nothing in naturalistic science, nothing in the theory itself is able to account for how life might develop with self-conscious minds able to postulate, with rational objectivity, their own origin, as if it all existed in a meaningful cosmos.
That stupendous claim is just believed and taken for granted.
So, forget your sense of genuine wonder, it's nothing but an illusion! · INSUPPORTABLE On the basis of Darwinian theory, no one would ever have the powers of reason sufficient to know that it knows and be able to say, 'Yes, on the basis of my own thinking, I conclude that while I cannot support the high view of my reason inherited from my Western background of Judeo-Christian belief, and now reject that higher view, I find that I am left with a problem.
That if I debunk the higher view, I elevate the lower animal view to take its place, but in abandoning the higher view I find I have also lost the ability to engage in meaningful science.
Why is that? As I've said, the horse has already bolted the stable door.
In a naturalistic cosmos there is no final basis for meaning.
We only find significance and meaning in an understandable cosmos into which the rational Creator has written significant meaning, some of which, even my own mind, finds wonderfully understandable.
And that's why, even evolutionists, who inconsistently use their high view of reason to undermine its objective validity, still have a sense of borrowed wonder! · STILL WONDERING? On the basis of their own fictitious, evolutionary beliefs, the evolutionist's sense of wonder is, strictly speaking, nothing more than an illusion, because nothing is objectively wonderful; that would be saying far too much - that a wonderful Creator has filled all things with significance, and given me that capacity to admire it, and that then I ought to bow my head in worship of the living God who has created me with this wonderful gift to marvel, and to discover, and value what I behold! Yes, indeed, a good place to begin is to acknowledge that the great Creator has also become the mighty Redeemer, taking the place I, as a moral rebel deserved, in his death upon the cross.
Now in awed amazement, I ask him to forgive my foolish thoughts and bow to his wisdom revealed in Scripture, even to a view of his grace and glory, 'All things were made through him (Christ the Word), and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men...
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth' (John 1:3-4 & 14).
Oh, what a wonder!
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