Dear Rafi Amer and Tahir Qazi,

 

I enjoyed reading your learned feedbacks based on incisive reasoning and well considered arguments. I feel I am at a disadvantage joining issue with you on the validity or otherwise of evolutionary theory, as you are both from a scientific background and I know very little about DNA, genes, mutations etc.

Based on the scanty knowledge I have acquired about evolutionary theory, I feel safe to say that there seems little hard evidence to support the claims of evolutionists.  All we have at the moment are incomplete fossil records and a great deal of speculation about how man "could" have descended from lower life forms, or how something intelligent "could" emerge by chance. We have also observed mutations in bacteria, but extending the same idea to more complex organisms, again falls within the realm of speculation, not proof. Also, mutations, on Which the evolutionary theory rests, are known to be harmful, not beneficial to the advancement of species.

 

Rafi Amer, you gave the example of how a book containing meaningful info could appear as a result of feeding your computer with the raw material, such as words, letters etc. Are you not debunking your own theory by suggesting this? When we speak of evolution and creation, the main issue we must address is whether or not there is intelligent intervention in the process. Evolution ignores intelligent intervention whereas Creationism acknowledges it. By giving the example of the computer and your intelligent intervention in the process, which requires you to feed the info, you are refuting your own viewpoint.

 

All of DNA has not been deciphered, which is why most of it appears to be nonsense. It may not actually be nonsense.  At least that is what I have heard and I could be totally mistaken in my understanding of the issue.

 

Computers, etc are all artificial intelligence, pre-programmed by human intelligence, and therefore the role of intelligent direction in their creation or functioning cannot be ignored. Yes, we can go on arguing about mind- body or body- mind endlessly, and perhaps human logic restricted by its countless shortcomings can never answer these imponderables.

 

Rafi Amer, you also suggested belief in an alien civilization rather than belief in God or a Creative Force. Indeed that is a possibility but one would have to investigate the origins of the alien civilization also.  It all leads to First Causes which the ancient philosophers were preoccupied with as well.  That is why, every one in the final analysis only speaks about God, but I can understand your frustration, given the viewpoint you espouse.

 

Regards

Farzana.