DESIGN vs. DARWIN...or Teacup Tempest?

“My faith is even stronger now.” This, from a victim of the hurricane Katrina catastrophe! Consider what this reveals, to an alert observer, about the human mind: it tacitly admits that God is on both sides of good and evil. The man, whose “faith is even stronger”—after the devastation of a category 5 storm—would have to agree that, along with his survival of it, the storm was equally God’s creation (or else it was the Devil’s doing, but he, too, is God‘s creation!). So, what does this suggest? Isn’t it obvious? Is this what men call thinking? Do men really think? How is it possible that men stare God’s works in the face, and then unaccountably cherry-pick only the portion of that barefaced totality that supports their “faith”? Is it self-delusion? Self-aggrandizement? Ignorance? Or, design?

Speaking of design, much has been made lately of the controversy between the theory of Darwinian evolution and the argument for “Intelligent Design.” Let’s see if this isn’t just a “Tempest in a Teacup.” Darwin invokes the mechanism of random mutation coupled with natural selection as the vehicle of evolutionary change. The argument for Intelligent Design allows that Darwin’s theory applies only in rather specialized and circumscribed flora and fauna populations, but that it fails dramatically, even fatally, when applied to explain sophisticated mechanisms discovered in the last 20 years or so of micro-biochemical research, specifically: the arcane workings of the human immune system; the surprisingly complicated process of blood clotting, the detailing of cellular DNA and RNA interactions, and, even in low-order species, mind-numbingly complex survival and reproductive strategy-mechanisms…all of which, it is mathematically demonstrated via probability calculations, would require more years than there are atoms in the entire universe for them to randomly evolve ala Darwin—an impossibility. Accordingly, Design, by some unspecified agency, not purely random processes, must account for life’s evolution. Naturally, there are rebuttals to the “Design” objections and rebuttals to the rebuttals, and so on. Note that neither makes any claim about the ultimate origin of life or the universe. The radical margins in each camp condemn each other as either “atheist scientists” or, “ignorant creationists”. The Alert, like expert freestyle rock climbers, keep their balance and feel out the hand-holds necessary to surmount this sheer-faced and trenchant ediface of opposition.

Let’s look for what is the anterior substrata, or common denominator to them both. Effectively, Darwinian science says “X”, while biochemistry science says “Y”. Both are the creation of “Z” which we’ll call the human brain/mind. If we write out an equation representing this reality, it would have two forms:

Z - Y = X

and

Z - X = Y

In words it would be: Mind minus (rejecting) Design, equals Darwin, and Mind rejecting Darwin, equals Design. Now consider the equation:

X + Y = Z.

What does this show? And what about the equation:

X + Y - Z = 0

Well, in words, for the former: Design and Darwin equals (or comprises, or in-forms) the Mind. And, for the latter: Darwin and Design, without the Mind, are null, i.e., meaningless. So, both being creations of the mind are dependent on it for their existence…and, the mind is incomplete without them both. Furthermore, Design and Darwin are Siamese twins; they share the same blood and cannot survive independently. Voila!: Tempest in a Teacup. Their squabble is…just the mind! Each side is arguing with their own mind, not with each other!

Let us return to the man whose “faith is even stronger now”. It was submitted above that God is on both sides of good and evil. And what was shown to be on both sides of the Design/Darwin debate? The Mind. Consider: Mind = God. When the mind speaks of God and has, in the often cataclysmic vicissitudes of life, faith in God, it speaks of and has “faith even stronger now”…ONLY IN ITSELF. For that is its DESIGN.

So, See the design; Know its purpose…and be untroubled by the Tempest in a Teacup humans call "my mind"...