guardian zei:
Hoe heb je dat onderzocht?
Wie spreekt er immers over toeval? Dat er in een tijdspanne van ontelbare jaren ergens leven ontstaat en zelfs een ander bewustzijn (mens) lijkt mij niet zo'n toeval, eerder een kwestie van tijd die onbeperkt aanwezig is.
Voor de rest zijn er imo enkel fysische en chemische wetten waar alles zich naar gedraagt. Alles wat ontdekt en doeltreffend bestudeerd wordt valt terug te koppelen naar deze componenten, al zullen er altijd dingen blijven waar we geen absolute kennis over zullen verwerven. Onze hersenen schieten gewoon tekort, dat maakt iets nog geen mirakel.
Wat chemische reactie's in de hersenen betreft zouden we zelfs onze vrije wil ter discussie kunnen stellen, maar daar zal ik maar niet over beginnen...
Door verschillende soorten literatuur die er bestaan over wetenschap en geloof te bestuderen. Het onderstaande is een mooi voorbeeld dat ik niet geloof in toevallig ontstond er iets na 'x' jaren.
Messages are not matter, even though they can be carried
by matter (like printing this email on a piece of paper).
Messages are not energy even though they can be carried
by energy (like the sound of my voice.)
Messages are immaterial. Information is itself a very
unique kind of entity. It can be stored and transmitted and
copied in many forms, but the meaning still stays the same.
Messages can be in English, French or Chinese.
Or Morse Code. Or mating calls of birds. Or the Internet.
Or radio or television. Or computer programs or architect
blueprints or stone carvings. Every cell in your body
contains a message encoded in DNA, representing a complete
plan for you.
OK, so what does this have to do with God?
It's very simple. Messages, languages, and coded
information ONLY come from a mind. A mind that
agrees on an alphabet and a meaning of words and
sentences. A mind that expresses both desire and
intent.
Whether I use the simplest possible explanation,
such as the one I'm giving you here, or if we analyze
language with advanced mathematics and engineering
communication theory, I can say this with total
confidence:
"Messages, languages and coded information never,
ever come from anything else besides a mind.
No one has ever produced a single example of a message
that did not come from a mind."
Nature can create fascinating patterns - snowflakes,
sand dunes, crystals, stalagmites and stalagtites. Tornados
and turbulence and cloud formations.
But non-living things cannot create language. They
*cannot* create codes. Rocks cannot think and they
cannot talk. And they cannot create information.
It is believed by some that life on planet earth arose
naturally from the "primordial soup," the early ocean which
produced enzymes and eventually RNA, DNA, and primitive cells.
But there is still a problem with this theory: It fails to
answer the question, 'Where did the information come from?'
DNA is not merely a molecule. Nor is it simply a "pattern."
Yes, it contains chemicals and proteins, but those chemicals
are arranged to form an intricate language, in the exact same way
that English and Chinese and HTML are languages.
DNA has a four-letter alphabet, and structures very similar
to words, sentences and paragraphs. With very precise
instructions.
To the person who says that life arose naturally,
you need only ask: "Where did the information come from?
Show me just ONE example of a language that didn't come
from a mind."
As simple as this question is, I've personally presented it
to many hundreds of people who say that life arose without the
assistance of God. But to a person, none of them have ever been
able to explain where the information came from. This riddle is
"So simple any child can understand, yet so complex,
no atheist can solve."
Matter and energy have to come from somewhere. Everyone
can agree on that. But information has to come from somewhere,
too! Information is separate entity, fully on par with matter and
energy. And information can only come from a mind. If books
and poems and TV shows come from human intelligence, then all
living things inevitably came from a superintelligence.
Every word you hear, every sentence you speak, every
dog that barks, every song you sing, every email you read,
every packet of information that zings across the Internet,
is proof of the existence of God. Because information
and language always originate in a mind.
