Evolution versus Creationism


I hate to complicate things, but both sides of this argument have a valid point to make. The fossil and DNA record clearly shows evolution from one species to the next, and the creationists have an irrefutable point about how nothing other than a source of intelligence could be responsible for certain things. What things? The biggest "thing" is the fact that DNA itself is an intelligent code for duplication of proteins and cells, and the organization and location of all the various systems of the body. It is totally illogical to think that a code could be anything but something designed intelligently. Single celled organisms didn't have  brains to think with so they couldn't have created their own code.
It is easiest to just take one of two extremist views and then try to make the facts fit your ideas. But this is a problem that requires us all to think of a solution that is somewhere between the two extremes. Yes, evolution happens* but isn't the only thing happening. Yes, there is an intelligent code within all living things but that doesn't mean that some big man in the sky that is called God is responsible. Please hear me out with my own hypothesis.
I believe that there is a force that occupies all the universe and is constantly working towards allowing living things to emerge from soil and water and then evolve towards being something more and more complex. This force is life itself, that which cannot be analyzed or validated in a laboratory. We can only know that life exists when we see the results of it within living things. Life is intelligent, but without a "brain" or personality and so cannot fulfill the role religionists reserve for "God" as being a perfect all powerful man that created us in his image. But if our definition of God is the primary source for all living things then maybe we can correctly say that LIFE IS GOD, and GOD IS LIFE. I think that life occupies all space and matter. So in a sense, the universe is a living being. The universe goes thru cycles of expansion and contraction every so many billions of years. When it contracts to practical nothingness, right before another Big Bang, life is still there. It does not need matter or space. But when there are both then it can express itself through them. Maybe life itself is what makes living things express its intelligence with complex interdependent systems, DNA, RNA, etc.

* Here are the arguments for "common descent" (the belief that all living things on this planet are part of only one tree of life and that the very tip of the root is one single celled organism that is the ancestor of every living thing)
1. There are around 100 different molecules that could be used as the building blocks for DNA, but instead all living things use the same 4 molecules to do so. (That indicates we are of the same "family")
2. DNA, RNA, polypeptides, and polysacharides all have the same chemical form in all living things.
3. All proteins in all living things use the same 20 amino acids although there are 400 that can be used.
4. All living things use the same code in DNA to determine which amino acids will be joined together to form proteins.
5. All living things metabolize glucose using the same 10 enzymes in the same 10 steps.
6. There are fossils showing intermediate forms between major species proving a succession of forms. For instance, there are 2 dozen intermediate fossils between man and his ape-like ancestor. The fossil record proves both macro and micro evolution.
7. Animals and man have vestigial body parts that had functional use in previous species but now have no beneficial use. (such as man's apendix and "tail" at the end of his spinal column)

Please see the video Facts of Evolution to learn more. 

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