This week we take a look at how the complex traits that life displays could have begun their development. Was it evolution, or was it a Creator that loves us? Which is the most likely answer?
“In Climbing Mount Improbable, I expressed the point in a parable. One side of a mountain is a sheer cliff, impossible to climb, but on the other side is a gentile slope to the summit. On the summit sits a complex device such as an eye or a bacterial flagellar motor. The absurd notion that such complexity could spontaneously self-assemble is symbolized by leaping from the foot of the cliff to the top in one bound. Evolution, by contrast, goes around the back of the mountain and creeps up the gentle slope to the summit: easy!” Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 2006
Matthew 6, “27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?” The Holy Bible, New King James Version, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc
“It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets?” Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species, 1859
