The Trump Card

 


I am a great lover of science, particularly the biological sciences; avidly reading all the articles fed to me by may various news channels, as well as being a subscriber to National Geographic. I love the Natural History Museum and while I feel a lot of the exhibits fail to keep up with the march of progress in many of the academic fields, the exhibition on the origins of humanity is one of my favourites and a must see when I am in "our nations capital" and have some time to spare. If I had my time again, I would keep on the path I originally choose for myself when I was at school and study biology at Uni, with a particular emphasis on Palaeoanthropology. So, I guess what I am trying to convey here is that I am not a luddite or a member of the flat earth society. 

I am also a Christian, an avid reader of the Bible, and fortunate enough to have studied the Old Testament under Rev. Dr Ernest Lucas, who held PhD’s in both Biology and Theology. So, neither could you give me the label “Young Earth creationist” as, thanks not in any small part to the teachings of Dr Lucas, I think I have a reasonable understanding of Genesis, its literary style, and its purpose. That all said (or typed) if there was one thing points irrefutably (well currently at least) to a creator God, particularly a God that created you and I in his image, a thing that science struggles to make any inroads to explaining (in addition perhaps to the Platypus): language. Science is so "confusticated" by the evolution or otherwise of language that there are several schools of thought, such as Gradual Development, Specific Mechanisms, and Innateness. If one looks at some of the names of the specific theories "Pooh-pooh", "Bow-wow", "La-La", etc. one would think that the scientific community isn’t really taking this field seriously. Further, trying to reach a cogent conclusion with any of these theories is so divorced from reality that they are on a par with trying to unravel the secrets of alchemy. How did homo-sapiens and other hominoids endowed with the physiology to create complex sounds evolve to speak a language with an extensive vocabulary in a period of a mere 430,000 years? It took 2 billion years for life to evolve into creatures that could inhabit the land, and a further 1.993 billion years for the first hominid to appear. Surely arriving at a the number and complexity of languages that exist in the world today is just as complex as creatures evolving to be able to walk and breath on land? It just doesn’t add up unless one accepts that humans and other close relatives started their evolutionary journey with the ability to speak that had to have been given them by a creator and that 430,000 is enough to get us where we are today with languages. 

I find it incredible that people would invest their entire lives and TV company’s would spend thousands trying to prove that aliens were either created (a la Prometheus the movie) or gave us all our skills and abilities from evidence that is so scant that makes the whole thing risible. Yet those same people are quick to discard the notion of a creator God when there is evidence that points to that fact. Not least of which is contained in the Bible, the Koran, and the Torah and which is accepted by over 4 billion people believe as factual evidence of a creator God. 

For me, and not that I needed convincing, language is the Trump Card in any debate on a creator God, and whether or not you sign up to the theory of evolution, it is difficult to argue any other way.

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