So, I have read many a blog on the debate between evolution and intelligent design.
People argue that one of the main holes in evolutionary theory is how the energy (that converted to matter that created life) get there? Was it always there, or did someone place it there? From then, Einstein told us that matter can be created from energy, and experiments showed us that primordial conditions could create proteins, which could then turn into living things, so we are all set.
So, did God put the energy there? Did God put the matter there? My question is, how did God get there? It is just as valid of a question as the one about the origin of the energy.
This is not intended to push against religion or science, it just poses questions, and shows that neither theory is 100% certain.
Also, just remember that there are 10s (maybe 100s) intelligent design theories, as there are more than one evolution theory.
So believe what you want to believe, and please don't push your beliefs down people's throats.
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I find this "People argue that one of the main holes in evolutionary theory is how the energy (that converted to matter that created life) get there?" to be a very irritating argument. Not that it's not a valid question, but because it doesn't have anything really to do with evolution. Evolution explains how the different species arose. It doesn't explain how life began and it has nothing to do with the beggining of the Universe. So, while these are things that people should wonder about, I find that clumping it all in with evolution is very silly.
Lots of things can be called evolution, but in science, the only theory of evolution is biological evolution. It has nothing to do with the Big Bang, nothing to do with how the planets formed, nothing to do with where the energies for such things came from. The only thing evolution theory deals with is how the different biological species came about. Evolution theory requires that life already existed before it can work. How did it come about? No one knows. Evolution theory doesn't try to answer that question. If you want it to be God, then it is God. If you try to say that evolution doesn't exist, then you are absolutely wrong according to all of the evidence compiled thus far.
Well...I was talking about physical evolution, which biological evolution eventually became a part of. If you think about it, it's all the same theory (first on an energy-to-matter, E=MC^2 level, then atomic level, then molecular, and onward to organismal). As I said, after matter was created, it was possible for life to be created.
> This is not intended to push against religion or science,
> it just poses questions, and shows that neither theory is
> 100% certain.
True, but generally speaking only one side of the argument (i.e. the creationists) claims to be 100% certain. All Scientific Theories include a mechanism for revision; its a built in function of the Scientific Method. Creationist arguments rarely (never?) view themselves with the same objectivity.
> I was talking about physical evolution
What is "physical evolution?" And no, I don't see it as being similar to the Theory of Relativity or any other Theories that deal with the Laws of Physics. Non-living matter doesn't "evolve."
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"Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici." ~ V.
I understand where the writer is comming from, he is just pointing out that some religioust people will ask, well how did the matter and the energy just start working together. Hes just stating that energy and matter are conversions of eachother and have always been together.
And yes the scientific method does not rule out possibilities, and therefore any reasonable scientist never completely rules out and option, which it why science can never be wrong, only adaptable.
By the way, Nice V for vendetta qoute...
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Everything, you have done, and will do, is chemically predisposed by matter, even the fact you are reading this message. You make no choices, only perceive a given reality.
You make a valid point, but then what do you belive?
Not to speak for him, but anyone who considers the scientific side, usually considered both sides well enough to go with science, whether that means by scientific chance, or by scientific(chemical) creation.
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Everything, you have done, and will do, is chemically predisposed by matter, even the fact you are reading this message. You make no choices, only perceive a given reality.