The Gum Tree for 2007 September 26

or that Christ cometh not? I say unto you that ye have none, save it be your word only. --Book of Mormon, Alma 30:40. We are in the midst of what Thomas S. Kuhn has described as a scientific revolution, which has been occuring within the past 5 years in the study of genetics. Because evolutionary biologist are have been struggling to pigeonhole the genetic code into Darwinian theory, they have assumed that a massive amount of genetic information contained in DNA was so-called "junk DNA." since you would need a massive amount of mistakes and random errors in order to arrive at the complexity that is the design of the human body. Now, the more we learn the more Darwinian Theory looks like monkey science. We are finding out fascinating things about the "code of life" (term coined by James Watson--the discoverer of the Genetic Code). That 99% of 'junk' DNA which was once thought of as a vestigial organ of evolution has been shown to provide manifold functions which we are uncovering every day. The complexity is simply awe-inspiring, but for the Evolutionary Biologist, it may be a bit depressing. It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny the inference that there is some kind of design intrinsic to life as we know it. A design would reject outright Evolutionary theory since evolutionary theory claims, at best, 'non-directed' accumulation of complexity at the most macroscopic level (species/traits selection) and absolute random accumulation of complexity at the most basic level (Molecular or Genetic). For those of us who saw the Movie Contact, scientist are like those SETI researchers who have received a message from space, which when decoded reveals the intricate plans to build a spaceship. As a scientist, I cannot infer the source of the message, but as a man who is tethered on the balance of doubt and faith; I have reasonable, but not certain grounds for belief in a God of creation. Evolutionary biologist may, through ideology, reject a primeval intelligent designer, but the evidences are clear; there is more to our existence than what we currently know or understand. Those who reject any intelligence higher than man's, have no proof and are operating under the delusion of materialistic ideology; the opiate for the self-absorbed man. Even if they reject revelation, which is the source of all eternal truth; their false faith cannot even be sustained by the rational proofs all around them. That is why the prideful atheist actually takes a greater leap-of-faith (albeit a false leap) than any small step which a humble follower of Christ is asked to make.