In this parsed essay we will consider the fascinating juxtaposition, literally to the extremes, of Creationist and Intelligent Design preoccupation with complexity and Atheist-Darwinian-Evolution preoccupation with simplicity when it comes to the issue of life’s origins—find the whole essay here.
Simplicity and complexity are the two extremes which seem to span the dividing line between the generalized worldviews of Atheist-Darwinian-Evolution, Creationism and Intelligent Design.
However, the juxtaposition represents a dichotomy that separates true from false, fact from fiction and science from gap filling stories.
Creationist and Intelligent Design proponents appeal to complexity and Atheist-Darwinian-Evolutionists to simplicity for the same reasons: they think that by doing so they are buttressing their positions. Via complexity, Creationist and Intelligent Design theorists can claim that Goddidit or some higher intelligence didit and via simplicity Atheist-Darwinian-Evolutionists can claim that timedidit, matterdidit, chancedidit, evolutiondidit, etc.
Appealing to complexity so as to throw one’s hands up and say, “Well, that’s oh so very complex that God must have done it” is the low hanging fruit version of the view of complexity. And one that may not actually be held to in the manner which it is portrayed by the other side of the argument.
Appealing to simplicity seems to proceed forth from the observation that we do not know of life coming into being today, neither in nature nor in hundreds of carefully orchestrated lab experiments. It is therefore, assumed that life had simple beginnings in a time far, far removed from ours. Far enough away so as to allow the imagination to run wild with speculations about how things might have been. Far enough so as to allow for life to simply come into being uncaused, unplanned and by chance. This is the choices fruit that Atheist-Darwinian-Evolution has to offer, it is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
In other words, the complexity view as regards what is termed a “science stopper” is erroneous and a low hanging fruit version. Whilst the view of life’s simple beginnings is a serious view considered to be accurate (without evidence) by its adherents and represent the very best fruit. In reality, this fruit is not only low hanging but has fallen from the tree and lies in the ground rotting.
A well within the box Atheist-Darwinian-Evolutionist group think talking point de jour claims that concluding God as creator or otherwise higher intelligence as designer is a “science stopper.” It is claimed that such conclusions cause scientific research to come to a full stop. This is stunningly fallacious on very many levels. Firstly, ubiquitously promulgated talking points aside, who actually does this? Who actually reasons thusly? Who has actually practiced science, concluded in a Creationists or Intelligent Design view and quite science since “God (here pronounced “Gaaaaawwwwwddddd!”) must a’dun’it!” Secondly, those scientists who are Creationists or Intelligent Design proponents do, actually and in fact, continue right on working in whatever field in which they function.
Thirdly, if Creationists or Intelligent Design conclusions really would stunt science then science, as we historically know it, would never have gotten off of the ground to begin with.
The history of science is that it developed upon a Judeo-Christian premise. Yes, there were non-Judeo-Christian cultures that developed forms of “science” but they remained immature, at best. This is because the scientific method was premised upon the view that the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible, YHVH, is a rational being who created a rational creation which could, therefore, be rationally discerned.
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