It is crucial to point out here that Darwinian Evolution – even conceding its truth for arguments sake – is irrelevant to our question. Darwinian Evolution cannot take place without a living, DNA-based self-replicating organism already in place. Darwinian Evolution and Natural Selection are only operative from that point forward. Evolutionary theory does not even pretend to explain how the first living, DNA-based organisms originated.
“Evolutionary theory does not even pretend to explain how the first living, DNA-based organisms originated.”
Yet there are often broad sweeping and grandiose statements made as if it was the answer to everything... In other areas of science, such a huge gap/blind spot would be viewed as a fatal flaw in the theory/model. Take a look at physics as an example. To oversimplify Newton -> Einstein -> Quantum.
On an even deeper level, the secular world view based on science relies on the assumption of a materialistic explanation for everything and quantum mechanics experiments have pretty much invalidated that assumption. There is not a materialistic reason why observation would change the results of an experiment. And the delayed choice experiment even causes questions for the chronological nature of cause and effect. In short, the Atheists “know” even less today than they “knew” a hundred years ago.
Their new answer is to hope that we are all living in a simulation... Leading us to wonder who wrote the simulation... ROFL, the irony is amazing.
Reminds me of the joke:
Man goes to God and says, “We’ve replaced you. We can create life from dirt just like you.”
God says, “Ok, show me.”
The man picks up some dirt, when God interrupts him and says, “No, go make your own dirt, first.”