So that’s what I set out to do, starting at the macro level
by talking about how much astronomy has learned about the mind boggling
vastness and impeccable order of our universe. Today we can predict the exact
course and arrival time of a comet seventy five years in the future. Just think
about the amazing precision that require!
Naturally we ask how this came about. Some scientist believe
it all just happened as the result of a big bang that launched everything,
setting our earth spinning on its axis, at just the right speed, at precisely the
right distance from the sun so it wouldn’t be incinerated, yet close enough not
to freeze, with other planet in their orbits and other
galaxies positioned perfectly to keep harmful rays from destroying our planet and us. I told my audience, I just don’t have enough faith to believe all that happened by random chance.
I’ve never understood how the same scientists who propose
the big bang theory also accept the second law of thermodynamics (entropy),
which assert that things naturally tend to move toward a state of
disorganization, not organization. Yet much of the big bang theory rests on the
belief that after all this stuff around us (matter) just happened to come out
of nowhere in a giant explosion, instead of spreading and growing more
disorganized, somehow it assembled and organized itself into an awe-inspiring
pattern of planets and orbits and solar system and stars and galaxies that
reach into infinity and move in a celestial choreography that is at once
beautifully mysterious and mathematically predictable.
How does that jibe with
the second law of thermodynamics? I.ve talked to Nobel prize-winning physicist
who spouts hypotheses that amount to nothing more than a bunch of astrophysical
mubo0jumbo before eventually admitting “well we’re still learning. There is a lot we don’t understand.” I’ve yet
to find anybody sure enough to give a convincing explanation.
I suggested to the science teacher that many people accept
the big bang theory on faith, despite evidence for or against it. But tell me,
I asked, where did the very first living cell come from? Darwin built his
entire theory of evolution on the premise that the cell is the simplest,
foundation building block of life.
The electron microscope and the countless other contemporary
tools have only begun to show us that how incredibly complex a cell truly is.
You have a cell membrane with lipoproteins physically
interposed with positive and negative
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