One of the founding principles of Evolutionary thought is that good mutations occur frequently enough to cause changes in species. Not only changes in species, but changes enough to eventually mutate organisms similar to pond scum into alligators, elephants, sharks and even man. In order to seriously consider this idea as anything but fanciful mysticism, one must study in depth what this idea entails. First one must look at the idea of creating one “good” mutation. This is quite similar to taking Shakespeare’s “to be are not to be” soliloquy and at some point chosen randomly, randomly typing letters. What are the chances that what you have typed something that actually improves Shakespeare’s soliloquy? What are the chances that you actually typed something that make sense? This can actually be explored using numeric methods. Clearly, the chances of adding errors to any text by randomly typing is high. Now have any of these rare good mutations actually been seen? Research it for yourself, don’t really on just what I’m telling you. If you do, you will find the only good mutation referenced in all that we know about mankind is sickle cell anemia. No one with sickle cell anemia will tell you that it is a good mutation. So we know that idea of good mutations is at the very least rare, if it exists at all.
Now the next stage is taking all of these good mutations together to form something completely different. Now if the simplest single cell organism is like Shakespeare’s soliloquy, the human cell is like the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Evolution uses as its basis, that by randomly typing at various location on Shakespeare’s soliloquy, at some point with solely the process of deleting anything that doesn’t make sense, you will come up with the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Now while as a statistician, I must acknowledge this as a possibility, the question then becomes how likely is it. Some scientists ignore that this is infinitely unlikely. In fact what most scientists know is that order is not created by randomness. Let me give you an example. If you have children, you know that they can get into stuff and break things. Now let’s say you were to tell your children to just throw everything they can pick up randomly around. When you got home, you would expect a big mess. Now if we did an experiment where we had all the children of the world do this, would anyone come home to find that their house is more organized. NO!!! Lets try an experiment, put a whole bunch of monkey to work. Their only job is to create a working well. They are given wood and metal to put together into shovels. They are given all the bricks they could ever need, and they are given rope and a bucket. How many years would it take for say a hundred of them to make a well? The answer is that they would never make a well. More than likely they would put the bucket on their head get it stuck and bang around until it broke off. This is because as everyone knows it takes intelligent planning to create anything useful. Let’s take another example. If you see a mouse trap in the woods, would you wonder how the mouse trap came to be? Everyone with a brain would say that a man created that mouse trap. Now is there metal in the woods? Yes. Is there wood in the woods? DUH. Is it possible that the metal and the wood by some freak tornado came together to form this mouse trap, with of course the little writing on the back that says “Made in china”? Well I guess its possible, but I don’t think I could ever convince an intelligent person that this is what occurred. Very simply, useful things are not created from randomness. This all begs the question “If some of our smartest scientists can figure out how to create a rocket to transport people to the moon, but can not figure out how to create one living cell from nonliving material, then how complicated is it to do such a thing?” Would you believe that something much more complicated than a spaceship was created by random processes, yet not believe my story about how the mouse trap came to be? Would you ever go to Rome and say “its looks like a bunch of monkeys got together and randomly threw around some bricks.”? If so please contact me I have some beautiful swamp land to sell you.
We are not randomly mutated pond scum. Let me say this again, WE ARE NOT RANDOMLY MUTATED POND SCUM. We are the creations of God. You cannot truly argue the scientific merits of evolution because it has none. Scientists only argue this because their only other option is a divine creator. One would only hold on to this idea because one does not want to believe in God. If we are just randomly mutated pond scum, then when I cheated on my history exam I didn’t do anything wrong. The bad things that happen in life are just random events, not God punishing me or just not caring about me.
THIS IS WRONG!!! We have a purpose for life. We are here to learn to love. When God breathed life into us we gained a portion of his nobility. This can be seen everywhere. People risking their lives to save others, firefighters, teachers, military members, police officers, the regular Joe on the street all sacrifice of themselves for others. We have inside of ourselves such nobility that is truly unparalleled by the angels of heaven. There is no greater love than this, that a man gives his life for the life of his friend. Not even the angels in heaven can have the nobility that we all have inside of us.
Claim this birthright! Claim this nobility! Do not deny it because life is hard. Life is hard, but nothing worth having comes easy. Life is our opportunity to truly learn what love is. Should this lesson be learned easily? How valuable to us would it be if it was an easy lesson? How can we demonstrate love without sacrifice? How strong is our love if it cannot withstand trials and tribulations? We say things like “How can God be perfect if there is so much wrong with this world?” Therein lies your answer. This is not a perfect world, but it is a perfect proving ground. We have a limited time so as to compel us to concentrate on what is important. It is extremely difficult so as to strengthen us. There are many tests of our character. We are given time to reflect on what we have done wrong and time to change. Our opportunities to learn from our failures are even more numerous that our successes. You must stay vigilant because you never know when the next test might come. This is truly the perfect proving ground. Yet I tell you one and all that you are all equal to the task. We have in all of us the nobility unmatched by the angels.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself. These are your only true goals. When you fail, as we all do, learn from your failure. Do not get down on yourself or think yourself unworthy, you have some of God’s nobility running through your blood. Get back up and try harder. When life knocks you down, as life knocks all of us down frequently, do not indulge in self-pity. Find that nobility in yourself, use it as an opportunity grow mentally and spiritually.
YOU ARE NOT MUTATED POND SCUM!!! YOU ARE THE CREATION OF THE ALMIGHTY AND YOU HAVE THE NOBILITY GREATER THAN THAT OF THE ANGELS. LOVE GOD FIRST. LOVE OTHERS. LOVE YOURSELF.