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Dr. Amit Goswami's
Creative Evolution

Biblical Creationism and Darwinism both become a “one-trick pony” in an attempt to explain life around us by one central too-simplistic argument

 

 

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Editor's note: The following quotations are from Dr. Goswami's book, "Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism And Intelligent Design."

 

Darwinists try to explain the coming of all life-forms around us – not to mention “feeling, meaning, and purpose, and indeed consciousness itself” – as the result of an interplay between natural selection and genetic determinism. It's a lot to fit in the suitcase.

But this “is no less foolhardy than the old religionists’ attempt to account for everything inexplicable as acts of God. Matter just isn’t up to the task of handling those things ["feeling, meaning, and purpose"]: Scientists and philosophers have been able to argue quite compellingly that matter cannot process meaning (Penrose 1989; Searle 1994) or produce consciousness (Chalmers 1995)…

“This argument [by Darwinists] does not make good biology, and for a very good reason. Animal and human behavior clearly show that real intelligence with causal efficacy [i.e., a will to grow and develop] exists in living organisms.

"Furthermore, the ability of organisms, especially humans, to process meaning with creativity and purpose – as supported by our own experience and objective data – indicates causal efficacy. Witness all the creative work by the many scientists of the twentieth century alone that has causally ‘disturbed the universe.’ …That work cannot be dismissed as an example of genetic determinism.”

Editor’s note: And the question should be asked, is the insistence by Darwinists on materialistic viewpoint also a product of mere natural selection and genetic determinism? If so, if their words become a kind of “programming” devoid of creativity and sense of self, then why should we take anything they say seriously?

 

 

Editor's last word:

Materialists who work in the history department try to palm-off this argument of “programming devoid of creativity and sense of self” to say that there is no "causal efficacy" in history -- there are no courageous people, no heroes like Bob Feland, no good people, no selfless people, in our past. They were just hapless products of the spirit of the times, just flowing downstream in the river of events, with no real freedom of choice, and deserve no credit for what they did. They call it their “Great Man Theory.” Pretty sick stuff. But this is the logical, anti-humanistic end of the road for those whose philosophies are led by the fear of death. Any idea that includes the primacy of consciousness, they're against it; they're terrified by it.