Disclaimer: I’m not a scientist! Therefore, this is not an expansive letter about Evolution/Creation: not qualified! So this is my (and I think Moses’: the Moses that authored Genesis) opinion of ‘In the beginning’. I’m someone that believes the Spirit can guide us into ‘all Truth’.
It seems AI is all the rage. Rage both for it and against. I just had a ‘many minute’ conversation with Tom (Mann) and he was describing many of the amazing things it does, some of the different ways he’s getting to use it in his studio. Granted, it’s fascinating. Just like mobile phones and computers, I think it’s a given that in our futures AI will become a big part of our daily lives. It’s both hugely promising and a bit concerning. Certainly, AI can help solve many human level problems we can’t seem to solve on our own. My biggest caution is that it minimizes our brains and especially our creativity, our independent thinking. Just last week a friend of mine had AI write the lyrics of a song for BVN that took about 30 seconds; it put the music to it and added a vocalist! At the time, I mentioned to my wife, ‘I wonder if AI could write a song as creative as Laura Story’s song called ‘Blessing’. The way I put it to Tom in our conversation was- ‘who’s the robot here, AI or are we becoming its robot.’
While thinking about AI technology and how amazing it is, I began to think about another thing we should be more amazed by, more focused on: the miracle of man/woman.
I often think what the probability is of something as unique as our biological lives being a ‘shot in the dark’; having evolved simply because some amoeba popped up and from its very beginning needed improvement to survive or progress. Simple evolution might be re-defined as life originating from un-living matter to living matter, lifeless molecules into living molecules. It’s a bit like believing, by a kiss, a frog became a prince. However, of all the fossil records and theorists, there are no ‘transitions’ between species to be found. All the fossils are of complete identifiable organisms. There are hundreds of books available on the probability of evolution being the norm. And just as many that Elohim created humans; put all this together in His heart before the foundation of the world. (Interestingly, Job 26 talks of the earth suspended on nothing. Job 40 perhaps describes dinosaurs. Look up continental drift sometime and the Grand Canyon strata to imagine a Great Flood.) The evolution theory unbelievers would have us to believe: “Here, just sit down, I’ll give you billions of years to just sit and watch for a ‘first spark’, a ‘kiss the frog’ moment to put together all that the human creature is. You can’t interfere, you just wait and watch for the natural progression from amoeba to human. Just hide and watch. And good luck.”
First a few proteins, maybe a touch of an amino acid… those things got together and seemingly worked their way to a human brain and heart. That takes evolution faith. That dude needed a reproductive system of course to make a second super amoeba! Got it, of course it just knew it needed organs, ears, eyes, etc., so it eventually grew them over, what, billions of years? To me, given that is the template for evolution we should be all walking around with one eye, seeing solved, one ear, hearing solved, a single finger and a thumb maybe to climb and write with. But we were so needy we ended up with two eyes, two ears, ten fingers and toes. Who needs five toes to walk? (With humans, of the organs that are present in pairs, you only need one of those to survive.) Evolution would seem to favor just having one of those to solve the problem. I simply can’t imagine that how wonderful you are accidently occurred. Using evolution logic, it’s akin to assuming that (without a Creator) a piece of iron lying in the ground became a locomotive simply because it needed to go somewhere. No creator needed– just chance. In the book of Romans it says that creation declares the Glory of God. I heard a quote once that simply said: ‘Every house has a builder.’ There are no spontaneous houses that I’m aware of.
We’re an organ system, a cardiovascular system (By the age of 70 your heart would have beat over 2.5 billion times)( over 100,000 blood vessels in your body), respiratory system, digestive system (The acid that’s generated in your stomach is so strong that it can even dissolve the stomach; therefore the stomach lining is replaced every 4-5 days to prevent digesting itself) , nervous system (Information travels to your brain at a speed of 268 miles per hour), muscular system, immune system, reproductive system , metabolism system and skeletal system. We’re somewhat self healing, have a chemical and electrical system in our brain, our skin is one large organ to protect us. Don’t forget that renal system to keep us healthy. We see, hear, taste (2000 taste buds), touch and interpret the world around us and each one of those senses routed to our brain. Your eyes can see 10 million colors, not sure we needed all those 7 millions cells in our retina, over 100 trillion cells in the human body. A little thing like your appendix (considered useless for years) now is known to be a home place we store good bacteria. (It takes 9 months to create the most powerful computer ever – you. Our DNA data would fill 35 million books.)
There’s prophesy that I think addresses some of the things that are happening today. This scripture might just be a little ‘evolution talk’ right here:
‘For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator…’ (Roman 1:20-25)
Let’s assume there’s a God. He gave us a Kingdom of God. It’s not a worldly-based kingdom, but a Kingdom to live by in ‘This Present Darkness’. Our confidence is in the fact that there’s a peaceful place in the palm of His hand. Is He doing all the things we imagine, just the way we imagine? I doubt it, but I do think He’s doing more than we do imagine. A God that created such a unique world did not step away from it expecting it to become void again. He entered it, declared His presence in it, whispered scriptural Wisdom to us.
Nature is the gift of life; however, God’s Grace and Mercy are the gifts of God for living Life well. It’s freely revealed to us in His Wisdom and Mysteries. We can’t do as Romans 1:20 implies, worship the creature rather than the Creator, and expect to experience all that God has for us. Our scientific theories and speculations cannot do that. Salvation is not going forward but going home to the original relationship with the Creator of the universe. It’s a restoration to walking and talking with the God of creation pre-fall. To progress we must go back to the original. Bottom line: the first thing we’re given to learn is that ‘In the beginning God…’ As we enter into Eternal Life, the word ‘Creator’ might just be the answer to the second question asked us as we enter the Pearly Gate.
By the way, the answer to the first question at the Gate: ’Jesus’.