Falling Apart

OK so it has been a while since my last post. Apparently getting married and moving into a new place takes a lot of your time. Who knew?

The other day my mom and I were talking and untangling some ropes. These ropes had not moved since we put them there, but they still managed to get themselves tangled. My mom made a comment that was funny, but had a lot of truth to it. She said, "I don't see how anyone can believe in evolution when stuff like this happens all the time." One of the foundational ideas behind evolution is that life is going from a state of disorder (primordial soup) into an ever increasingly better and more organized state (humans and beyond). But, as we experience all the time in life, things are not getting more organized. Ropes get tangled, rooms get messy, cars (even the expensive ones) break down, animals go extinct, people get sick, and the list could go on and get far worse.

So, for evolution to work, it must contradict our experiences all through life. Not just for a short time either, but for the entire history of the planet. Granted, there is growth. All forms of life are weak or small in the beginning, but with time each individual grows and becomes stronger. But the design for this growth is already inside the being at the start. For instance, the entire set of DNA is in the small seed of a great redwood tree, or the characteristics of a human are all prepared to be developed inside an embryo. So, even though their is growth, the organization is already there in the beginning of the being's life. But despite these periods of growth, the story of life is still the same all over the world. It eventually falls apart and dies.

For evolution to work, there must be a multi-billion year history of life becoming somehow more organized. Evolution claims that this organization was done through genetic mutation, and every once and a while that mutation would make the being stronger or "more fit". But how likely are these mutations to happen? As we have all seen in life, things rarely get more organized on their own, and if they do it is for a short time. Even if a positive genetic mutation were to occur, there would be no guarantee that it would be a dominant gene and appear again in the next generation. Billions of years just does not seem long enough to me for so many mutations to happen that will carry on to the next generation. There are countless species in the world. That calls for an insurmountable number of instances where something miraculously became more organized.

To me, it just seems easier and more plausible to say God created it all. When things are left to themselves, they fall apart. Everything we experience in life that has organization has had someone put it together. So why wouldn't life be the same way? It just seems more logical to say that there is a God behind it all.