Hedtke, Randall R. (1984) The Divine Essence in Evolutionary Theorizing: An Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Evolutionary Natural Selection, Mutation, and Punctuted Equilibria as Mechanisms of Megaevolution. Creation Research Society Quarterly, 21 (1): 7.
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Abstract
It is the author's thesis that true science, namely, experimentation and observation, is inseparably united with God. Science as a reasoning process and our ability to reason as human beings have the Creator as their common source. The inseparability between science and God is especially apparent in the question of the orgin of life. This article describes the futility confronting materialistic theorizers to explain the origin of life without invoking miracles. The problem confronting materialistic theorizers is the requirement of formulating a testable, on-going mechanism for the origin of life as opposed to a nontestable, discontinuous mechanism. The former is within the realm of science, while the later is not. Darwin's on-going evolutionary natural selection mechanism met that requirement. The article goes on to explain how, hwen Darwin finally did deal honestly and objectively with the data, he abandoned evolutionary natural selection. Then, in order to avoid conceding to special creation and continue to meet the scientific requirement of postulating an on-going mechansism, he switched to Jean Lamarck's theory of acquired characters, which never had credibility. Darwin's correct insistence that a materialistic explanation for the origin of life must be by means of an on-going mechanism, perhaps can only be fully appreciated at a time when special creation is the predominant belief. Darwin's reaction to the dilemma is contrasted to the reactions of Hugo De Vries and present-day evolutionists, like Stephen Jay Gould, who also found evolutionary natural selection untenable as an on-going mechanism. Their reaction has been to abandon true science by postulating periodic mutability and punctuated equilibria, which, because they are not on-going, are statements of belief. Essentially, they were led back to creation in spite of themselves. Science, within its limitations, will always reveal creation, because it reveals intelligent design in nature, while not revealing an on-going mechanism; together they add up to creation.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Q Science (General) > Q175 Philosophy of Science Q Science (General) > QH Natural History. Biology > QH359 Biological Evolution |
Depositing User: | Admin |
Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2025 21:42 |
Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2025 21:42 |
URI: | https://crsq.creationresearch.org/id/eprint/583 |