This is a response to a quote from Carl Sagan that I referenced. Sagan is a
dogmatic evolutionist who was voted the smartest man in America by MTV. Sagan said
that the simplest cell contains enough data to fill one million pages of the Encyclopedia
Britanica. My observation is that this concept does not support evolution but points
us to creation. Here is one of the responses I received.
Evolutionist:
Since when did millions of volumes or the Encyclopedia Britannica just pop into existence?
They all had to be written word after word to create paragraph after paragraph. The
main idea of evolution is that a extremely simple element began to write function after
function to its volume to get to where it is now.
My response:
This argument would make sense if a cell could survive without all elements
included in its life functions. Even evolutionary scientist acknowledge
that the cell cannot continue to live if any component is removed. You have
to stop for a few minutes and remember where the evolutionary theory
evolved. Sometimes good theories dissolve when more evidence is discovered.
Ernst Haeckel was one of the pioneers that help popularize darwin's
theories. Based on Darwin's writings, Haeckel claimed "a cell is a simple
little lump of albuminous combination of carbon". Based on the information
of the day, his ideas made sense. But now technology has proven this to be
a theory of ignorance. Without the electron microscope and new technologies
such as X-ray crystallography and NMR, we can see in great detail what they
could not even imagine. Evolution was born out of ignorance of the complex
(by ignorance I mean lack of knowledge, not a lack of intelligence). No
matter how you slice evolution, it always begins at the complex and goes
from there. Most evolution explanations sound great until you pull out the
magnifying glass. You will quickly see that all theories of evolution have
a starting point that is well past the difficulties. The fact is that
biological development is incredibly complex and so inter-dependent that if
one element is removed, the entire structure collapses. Remove DNA and does
a cell survive? Remove anything and does it survive? Study the formation
of amino acids. That alone presents a case for design that can't be dodged.
The only explanation is to avoid the issue.
