by Jane Daniels

Created on: February 21, 2011

When you really explore this topic it becomes apparent that the two 'camps' are diametrically opposed. No matter how hard you try, you cannot meld them.

Lets have a closer look at why we cannot marry these two opposing views.

We'll use layman's terms....just so the topic is not lost in jargon.

When Darwin first put forward his theory of the evolution of living things, did he have all the facts? Clearly he couldn't have, since electron microscopes had not even been invented. Processes that needed modern equipment and knowledge to study, had not been brought into existence. DNA had not been explored, let alone mapped. Only in recent decades has the intricacy of the so called "simple" cell been fully uncovered.

Let it be noted, there is nothing "simple" about a cell. It is virtual city, alive with processes and operations that stagger the imagination. Living things are made up of trillions of these cells. They are the very foundations of all living things. The complexity of the cell presents a great challenge to Darwin's theory.

If evolution has taken place over aeons of time, then we should still see evolution in progress. The truth is, there is no continuity in the fossil record. There are no intermediate species in the process now or in the past. The missing links are all still missing...why? Because they were never there in the first place. Species appear suddenly in the fossil record, not gradually.

All those illustrations of homo sapiens beginning as stooped and brutish 'Neanderthals' is the product of human imagination, rather than on solid evidence from the fossil record.

Humans have always been fully erect and intelligent. Primitive peoples still exist in our technological world. They have skills that are not possessed by those who have left 'the land'. Intelligence is relative to where and how you live. Living in harmony with your environment is superior to destroying it to suit yourself. Biting the hand that feeds you is never a good idea.

Can human intelligence be a product of chance?

Let's consider an illustration....the computers we use every day are made up of many components, most of these are individually quite complex in their design and operation. If we took these individual components and tumbled them around in a medium for a couple of million years, would we expect to see a fully functioning computer come out as the end result?

That is not even taking into consideration the individual components themselves. How did they come into being?

Each component

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