Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:39:19 PM
The other day, Rush Limbaugh talked about a new movie coming out that shows how Darwinism is the dominant philosophy on colleges all over the country. Since I work on a college campus, that announcement came as no surprise. I have to be careful what I say, because Darwinism is the dominant philosophy and the one expected to be taught.
The full-time faculty on my campus believes that Darwinism is true. The problem is that parts of Darwinism can be shown to be true. The real problem with Darwinism is when you project it to explain the origin of life. At that point, Darwinism falls apart.
There are some firmly understood laws of nature. One is that life can only come from life. That means that in order for something to be alive, it must have come from another organism that was or is alive. The second is that all living things are composed of cells. This means that in order for something to be considered to be alive, it must be a cell.
In explaining the origin of life, everyone agrees that at some point there was no life on the earth. Everyone also agrees that at some future point there was life on the earth. The only question is how that life came to be. There are really only two possible explanations off how this happened. One is that things that were not alive came together to form something that was alive. The second is that life was place upon the earth by some force. Every person that tries to describe how life came to be is using one of these two reasons for the origin of life.
Darwinists believe in the first reason. They believe that primitive carbon compounds got together to form proteins. Those proteins got together to form complex proteins. Then the complex proteins organized into primitive proto-cells. The proto-cells then improved to real cells. Then the real cells became life as we know it. The problem with this idea is the life comes from life law. Things that are not alive cannot become alive. When you explain this problem to Darwinists, they explain that it did happen once and not again. If it could happen once, it would happen more than once. Since it has never happened again, it probably never happened the first time.
The second idea is that life got here by some force. That force could be God or some alien civilization. Life could have been placed here fully formed or it could have been placed here as a single cell or cells. Darwinists reject this idea because they reject the idea that there could even be a God. By having a “God” place life here as a single cell or as fully organized organisms it gets around the problem of life coming from life. It keeps the law that life comes from life intact. The only problem it creates is that you now have a being that is not currently on this planet having an impact on this planet. If the first cells were put here by aliens, why have they not been back? If the first cells were put here by God, God has had a continuing contact with humans since the first man was on the earth. This idea explains everything and only has the problem of where is the being that placed life here in the first place.
As a teacher on a college campus that does not believe in Darwinism, I have a problem. I do not want to teach Darwinism because I do not believe it. I also do not want to advertise that I do not believe in Darwinism because I am not a full-time instructor and could be let go for almost any reason. I also would like to become a full-time instructor some time and it would be impossible if it became common knowledge that I did not believe in Darwinism. I get around the problem by teaching courses that minimize the amount of Darwinism that I have to teach. This way I can avoid the problem. If I was a full-time instructor and had tenure, I would tackle the problem head on. As it stands, that would be suicide for my career. Face it, I am a chicken.