Thinking Rationally

In nature, everything tends toward entropy.  Putting that another way, in nature, order, tends always to descend into Chaos, never the other way around.  If you build a new house and never touch it again, in one-hundred years, it will be in tumbledown condition, or if you buy a new car and simply park it, in one-hundred years it will likely be unsalvageable. In one-thousand years, both of those items will likely have deteriorated to a point where they cannot be found.  Now, I want you to think very clearly for a moment. In the material world, as we know it, does anything that is of use to us self-organize from nature’s default state, which is Chaos?  The answer is simply, “no.”  There has never been an automobile that has self-organized, nor a home that built and furnished itself.  In fact, not the smallest automotive or construction component has emerged on its own from the chaos of nature. The same is true of technology.  Copper wire did not simply appear on its own, nor did it “evolve” into a telephone system. 

Now, with those things in mind, let’s move on to the biological world.  Why would nature somehow reverse itself in the case of biology; enabling order to more easily overcome Chaos?  Specifically, let’s consider biogenesis. The smallest component of every living thing is the single living cell.  In it, information is stored, as a chemical code, and subsequently used in the construction replacement parts to repair the cell, or to replace worn-out cellular components. In a living cell, the information had to exist first, before a fully functioning cell could exist.  Where did that information come from? What is the genesis of the information itself?  To some, it is reasonable to suggest that it came from an intelligent agent, external to the process.  Science, however, holds to the idea that, somehow, simple chemicals can self-organize themselves into this complex data driven machine, and that this amazing synthesis can occur completely by chance.  That chance they know is, for all intents and purposes, non-existent. To accommodate this, scientists have recently proposed the existence of an infinite number of universes, the multiverse.  The idea being that, if they can somehow accommodate an infinite number of opportunities, the most remote possibility will eventually occur.  To many, this issue remains rather simple, if information-based life can arise by chance, then why not computers, housing, and automobiles … or even a single nail or lug nut.

Accepting that man is a created being, is the first step toward an understanding of Christianity.