by Richard Hemingway

Created on: March 22, 2009

Of course God and Darwin's theory of evolution can coexist. Anyone who says otherwise is either in denial or does not understand evolution. The question isn't whether we evolved from star-dust, this is highly probable. The first question is, how could we of ever become conscious, from unconscious precursors? One can rub dust together anyway they want too, it's not going to create something that is conscious. There must have been something that existed prior too, that was already conscious. Some might say, "Well, who created that something." Nothing created that something, that's why we call that something God. There must be something that either always existed or created itself, otherwise we run into an infinite regress. We would go on and on forever, asking, "Well, what created that," and then, "well, what created that." Forever. There has to be an origin and an ending point.

Some people seemed to have this mystical view of natural selection. If we are just an algorithm or pre-programmed robot then how did natural selection create a different algorithm for each and every person that has ever existed? I'm certainly different than you, and you different from me, in ways that both nature and nurture can not account for. Two identical twins, locked in a room their whole life, exposed to the same things every day, will still grow up to be two different people. To say my subjective experience came about because of evolution, is just the same as saying Natural Selection performed a miracle. Not once, but each and every time. Also, let me elaborate on this algorithm in our brains a little more. This algorithm, if it even is one, is one that can transcend formal logic, and it is one that can never be wrong. It can never be wrong. This is what's know as the halting problem. The human brain halts itself when there is no correct solution, where as a computer, given the same problem, would loop forever. We have intuition. Such things as artwork, music, philosophical insight and mathematical insight are not computable. One cannot tell me that Natural Selection and mutations gave rise to these abilities. Evolution deals with invariable details, not the origins of.

If there be no God, then how come everything is so difficult to explain? If we are all just pre-programmed entities that evolved from star-dust then why doesn't Richard Dawkins just give us the answers? I believe we evolved from star-dust, but not that we are pre-programmed zombies, that are dominated by genes and

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