Watch any nature show -- preferrably those who tout Evolution -- and you'll hear it over and over again. They talk about the "design" of this animal or that organ or this physical feature. More to the point, they are always asking, "What does this do?" On the surface, of course, it's a natural question, but, consider. If we're looking at millions of years of random evolution, why would we think that everything does something? Why would we think that everything has a function? "Vestitial organs" is the term. We've got a lot of them. (They even try to figure out what they did.) Take, for instance, the appendix. They used to take them out willy-nilly. If you look it up, most of the references will tell you it has no purpose. Except ... "modern researchers believe that the appendix has many key functions in the human body and it protects the body’s internal environment from infection." (Reference) Like tonsils that used to come out at the first sign of trouble but were discovered to be part of our immune system. And so on. So they always ask the function even if it shouldn't necessarily have one if it was just a cosmic accident. And that's just the human body.
David wrote, "I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psa 139:14). Paul wrote, "What can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made" (Rom 1:19-20). Which, as it turns out, is the truth humans suppress (Rom 1:18). And the reason for God's wrath. Me? I don't have enough faith to deny the existence or majesty of God. Look around. It's present everywhere.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork. (Psa 19:1)
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There are so many proofs for the existence of God that it is lunacy to deny. I remember being taught that the four pillars for the existence of God have all been knocked over. Now, I think that is a false narrative. Maybe, if each pillar was standing on its own, that would be true, but the existence of each pillar makes the hole structure undeniable.
Can we assert that the Creator has arranged for chromosomes and fossilized bones to testify as clearly as possible that biological evolution is not at all the way it happened?
Not sure of the question.
I don't know how “tree-branchy“ the raw biological data in fact looks, but the further it deviates from being able to be sorted that way, the more it would point to Creation rather than evolution.
I can't accept ideas that aren't rationally feasible. The universe coming from nothing is irrational. Therefore, I reject any theory of origins that accepts spontaneous appearance ex-nihilo. I reject any theory that openly chooses to deny every Law of science.
The creationist view is a biological first rather than a tree. The fact that there is so much in common between all life is the same reason all iPhones are similar, same creator.
"There are so many proofs for the existence of God that it is lunacy to deny."
True, and the biblical position takes it one step further. It's not merely rational; "God made it evident to them" (Rom 1:19). It is said that God does not believe in atheists for a reason.
David, would you expand on your phrase “a biological first“? I don't understand what that means.
{There is a single word “abiological,“ which might be what you mean.}
Sorry, the phone autocorrected. Should have been "biological forest".
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