All the Voices of the Wind (The Masterson Famiy Series Book 3) by Donald James Parker

Author:Donald James Parker [Parker, Donald James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sword of the Publshing
Published: 2008-07-25T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

Hanging with the Intellectuals

That Friday night the Spartans played another football game without Jeremy's presence. He was anxious to finish the book Uncommon Dissent, which turned out to be another collection of essays, edited by William Demski, one of the leaders of the intelligent design movement. Demski invented a system, called Specified Complexity, for analyzing objects to determine whether they were designed or not.

The major argument of the design people was simple. If something found in the world defied the odds of being shaped by nature, then it must have been designed. Mount Rushmore was a frequent example. How many people would buy the theory that the faces of four popular US presidents were created on a mountain via the process of erosion? Jeremy couldn't even figure out how a man could create something like that. To think that the wind and rain could perform the task would be absolutely ridiculous. When compared with even a single living cell, Mount Rushmore was like a drawing of a four-year-old with no art talent compared to a work by a master painter. Yet science could totally deny the possibility of a designer simply by saying that such an entity is outside the realm of science thus not eligible to be included in the process of seeking answers to life. Go figure!

On Wednesday and Thursday Jeremy had finished the first four essays. Tonight he had read the next two already. He looked at the clock and decided he had time to read the next essay, which was by James Barham. It didn't take him long to get absorbed in this piece. The author was raised in Christianity, became a devout and militaristic atheist and evolutionist, and then lost faith in Darwinism. This was a fascinating story of a young man's journey to find truth and himself, something Jeremy could relate to.

He stopped and pondered the following statement: "Above all, the Darwinist sees himself as a hero, someone who is brave enough to confront the terrible truth about the human condition that others cannot bear to face." Is this true of all Darwinists or just the ones who don't believe in God? For people like Richard Dawkins the gospel of evolution was the death sentence for the human race. Ironic that the theory of survival of the fittest brought people to believe that there was no ultimate survival.

Jeremy soon found another passage that caused him to halt and apply his reasoning skills. "I came to understand that the world is what it is, and that reality cannot be merely wished away. For human beings, the world of purpose and value is the essence of our existence." JD saw clearly that human beings are more than just a combination of carbon and hydrogen and oxygen and whatever else makes up the physical body.

The issue about purpose wouldn't leave his mind. Imagine football where there is no score kept. That would be a pretty stupid game. There are probably some guys who would enjoy playing just so they could hit people.

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