Eyewitness to Miracles by Randy Clark

Author:Randy Clark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2018-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

CONTEMPORARY SCIENTISTS WHO BELIEVE IN INTELLIGENT DESIGN

Today, there are several scientists and philosophers who look at the complexity of design and once again believe in intelligent design, including the following:

Michael Behe, who has developed the argument for design from biochemistry and has published more than thirty-five articles in refereed biochemical journals

Ralph Seelke, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Superior, who has researched Dr. Behe’s ideas in the laboratory, using mutant bacteria

Scott Minnich, a microbiologist at the University of Idaho, who credits the design paradigm to leading to new insights in his lab research

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, a German geneticist who suggests that intelligent design provides fruitful hints for giraffe research7

Professor Richard Smalley (1943–2005), winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry, who has stated publicly that based on strictly scientific grounds, he is persuaded that evolution is impossible and believes the burden of proof is on those who doubt the Genesis narrative

Guillermo Gonzalez, astronomer, who has opened a new frontier for the intelligent design paradigm with his arguments from cosmology

Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), an English astronomer and mathematician, who contended that any scientist who had studied the origin of life with an unbiased mind must conclude that “biomaterials with their amazing measure or order must be the outcome of intelligent design. No other possibility I have been able to think of.”8

Some have tried to resolve the issue of evolution by the theory called theistic evolution. One such person was Teilhard de Chardin, a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking man. The problem with this solution is that Darwin’s theory of evolution was directed by natural selection, which in no way is directed by God. Theistic evolution makes God rather than natural selection the designer who has purpose. This is not the primary scientific understanding of evolution.

I find it easier, when I consider the complexity of the universe and of the human cell, to believe in an intelligent designer, a lawgiver for the natural laws, and one who can use higher laws—not yet known to science—to work in His creation. This understanding makes miracles not violations of natural law, but the utilization of higher laws. For example, the law of aerodynamics displaces the law of gravity, allowing metal to fly. It takes less faith on my part to believe in God as an intelligent designer who has created not only laws to govern nature, but moral laws to govern society and family life. I believe the Creator has left an operator’s manual to help us understand how we are to live in such a way as not to be self-destructive or to undermine society.

In the next chapter we will turn our attention from science to philosophy, considering its impact on the Enlightenment and the Enlightenment’s resulting skepticism.

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