Could have done a better job

As I was browsing through my favourite website Wikipedia the other day, I clicked on a link to the article on the big bang. There I found that some moron had tagged the page for immediate deletion for reason (written with rather poor spelling) that it was all just damned lies spread by evil scientists. Being the good chap that I am I quickly reinstated the page to ensure it was not deleted.

It was obvious to me that this had been done by one of those ignorant and narrow minded people who, despite mountains of evidence to support it, argue that the theory of evolution, both of the universe and of life, is in fact not true. The alternative theory for all this is of course that everything was created in one week, 8,000 years ago, by God. They make this claim of course because it says so in a few books written by people who thought the earth was flat.

Before I make the main point of this post today, I would like to pose a thought for the people who subscribe to creationist theory. Why is it not possible for many of these people to combine evolution and creationism? I think their general credibility would be greatly increased if they accepted evolution as fact and simply said that evolution was God’s method of creation. You need to build a house bit by bit, so surely God would need to do the same with the universe. Sadly though this would require everyone to remove their heads from the sand; where it is nice and warm and comfortable.

So let’s stick with the crazies and ask questions of creationism. Some subscribers to this school of thought are wising up to the fact that it just doesn’t hold any water and are not trying to sneak their way in by calling it Intelligent Design. Proponents of ID claim that because many things that exist on earth that are so complicated, they must have been created by an intelligent designer, i.e. God, and could not have happened simply through chance. These proponents are trying to pass this off as science, even though it cannot be tested by experiment, does not generate any predictions, and proposes no new hypotheses of its own. It is just an idea; cute, but it is still just creationism, and it is still not backed up with any evidence.

So let’s just ignore all the evidence for evolution; let’s close our eyes, put our fingers in our ears, and sing “la la la la la I’m not listening to you.” Let’s say the universe, earth, and mankind were created by a perfect God. If this is true, then why has He not done a better job? If he made us, then why do we have vestigial organs? We don’t need a coccyx, or an appendix, or wisdom teeth; so why did God make them? The earth is far from a completed work; there are volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and other nasty natural phenomenon. A bit rough around the edges there! If we are God’s project then why has he bothered to make the billions upon billions of other stars in the universe?

Come on God, why haven’t you done a better job? If you’re so perfect, why did you need to take a rest on the seventh day? Maybe you should have worked a bit harder and you might have got it right! ID or creationism could not possibly explain our life and our universe, there are just far too many imperfections. Only a process of stellar creation and destruction, of accretion, of natural selection and evolution, can offer a proper explanation. But of course this is what science seeks to achieve, it seeks to ask how and not why. Religion seeks to simply suggest why, and remove the need to ask how. We shouldn’t be asking how; why is because it is God’s will, we should just accept that.

No thanks, it’s just too degrading.