Aloysium:
Yours would but polygenism is assumed
And it’s a rational assumption for science to make. It is rational for science to assume no man can rise from the dead. How much science regarding the mortality of the body do you reject because Jesus rose, because God can work miracles?
Creation is a miracle - all of this, wondrous. We don’t seem to see what’s in front of us for reasons that Genesis actually explains.
The mortality as such, of the body is too abstract a concept for it to be an area of scientific study. The question might be better stated in terms of what medicine tries to understand. We don’t reject what it discovers about disease processes because Jesus healed us of our physical, psychological and especially our spiritual disorder. It brings to light His power and provides proof that He is who He said He is, what happens when we grow away from Him and that He will do what He has promised.
Medical research has investigated the effect of radiation on organic matter. Specifically we can know the odds of x-rays having an effect on genetic material. We know that there is no truly safe level because the impact on the structure of such complex molecules is universally deleterious. Likewise, retrospective studies have shown there is no safe level for alcohol for a growing child within its mother’s womb; so women are counseled not to drink if there is a chance that they might be pregnant. It’s the same for medication although no one is prepared to do double blind studies on pregnant women, except in third world countries in certain questionable instances. We have statistics on the genetics and other causes of congenital abnormalities. What we do know for sure is that random mutations are bad for living organisms. There are multinational corporations working very hard on the genetic engineering of crops, and the work is quite precise to produce those designer genes.
There is no real possibility, outside the imagination, of a purely physically caused increase in complexity such as that seen between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, organisms which reproduce asexually and those that do so through the sharing of gametes, between single-celled creatures and those possessing tissues of specialized cells working in harmony, between plants and animals, between those with different physical forms and instincts such as an ant and an elephant. There being no chance that such phenomena are possible through the haphazard activity of matter, natural selection does not even enter into the picture. That is of course, unless there has been the direct intervention of a Designer to produce the organism.
What I’m getting at is that the research is quite clear about the impact of “random” mutations, those that occur in a haphazard manner due to noise or flaws in the system, or through the influence of external physical agents. The question that I would ask is how much science would someone reject because, in the face of the obvious a growing complexity in nature that has no physical explanation, they refuse to acknowledge the work of a Creator?
