At Easter, the philosophically inclined among us like to think about the foundations of the Faith. One of the challenges from the secular materialists, and I think probably the greatest intellectual challenge, comes from the materialist theory of evolution. Here is a good article by someone who is a professional thinker, good old Fred, someone who questions everything. Here he sets his sights upon the so-called “theory” of evolution, and shows that even in its own terms, it is very far from solving its own problems, such as the origin of life and intermediate forms:
https://fredoneverything.org/darwin-unhinged-the-bugs-in-evolution/
“evolution seemed more a metaphysics or ideology than a science. The sciences, as I knew them, gave clear answers. Evolution involved intense faith in fuzzy principles. You demonstrated chemistry, but believed evolution. If you have ever debated a Marxist, or a serious liberal or conservative, or a feminist or Christian, you will have noticed that, although they can be exceedingly bright and well informed, they display a maddening evasiveness. You never get a straight answer if it is one they do not want to give. Crucial premises are not firmly established. Fundamental assertions do not tie to observable reality. Invariably the Marxist (or evolutionist) assumes that a detailed knowledge of economic conditions in the reign of Nicholas II substitutes for being able to answer simple questions, such as why Marxism has never worked.
This is the Fallacy of Irrelevant Knowledge. And of course almost anything can be made believable by considering only favorable evidence and interpreting hard. Third, evolutionists are obsessed by Christianity and Creationism, with which they imagine themselves to be in mortal combat. This is peculiar to them. Note that other sciences, such as astronomy and geology, even archaeology, are equally threatened by the notion that the world was created in 4004 BC. Astronomers pay not the slightest attention to Creationist ideas. Nobody does—except evolutionists. We are dealing with competing religions—overarching explanations of origin and destiny. Thus the fury of their response to skepticism.
…As someone said, evolution writ large is the belief that a large cloud of hydrogen will eventually turn into Manhattan. But, like a religion, it provides an overarching explanation of origins–the Big Bang–and destiny–we are getting better and better–and gives us a sense of understanding the world. In this it serves the purposes of a religion and is treated as such by its adherents. They react to questioning with anger and they see their hated opponents as Creationists–that is, adherents of another religion. Note that while in the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, Christian fundamentalists tried to outlaw Darwin, today evolutionists appeal to the courts to outlaw mention of Creation in the schools. This is not rational. Can anyone believe that describing Creation in high schools will deter students from studying biochemistry, and turn them into intellectual loin-cloth wearers burning textbooks?”
The irreducible complexity of the world seems impossible to explain in materialist terms. There must be something more, and that something is…God! Of course, I will revise all of that if they succeed in creating a million Barrack Obama’s by cloning, for then the world will be truly mad!!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/25/obama-like-create-million-young-barack-obamas/