Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:57:43 PM
‘…evolution has gone beyond increasing complexity; it has provided the catalyst for a new order of being in the world. Through the human mind, the cosmic code has finally produced a mechanism for its own detection. Surely this is a fact of fundamental significance. Not only has matter somehow generated life, it has also generated awareness and understanding…
This undeniable teleology opens up a tantalizing possibility. The mind may have arisen out of the material but it is manifestly immaterial…In showing that perishable matter has within itself the capacity to generate imperishable ideas, nature provides a powerful clue…’ –Dinesh DSouza
We cannot tell if Mr. DSouza is informing us of the latest in evolutionary philosophy or whether he believes this stuff. But either way this is a significant accommodation to the pressure being applied by the intelligent design arguments against traditional Darwinian philosophy.
It is good to see the anti-theists begin to abandon their position of no design and no purpose in the universe. That position cannot be sustained except among the devout and faithful darwinites. It is irrational for intelligent beings to profess that there is no design in the world and in living things. To acknowledge that nature is a ‘powerful clue of undeniable teleology’ brings them closer to the truth.
Teleology has to do with purpose and design toward a final result, that there is an inherent purpose or final cause for all that exists. But in order to claim this they have committed philosophic suicide, confronted with two impossibilities. Not only has life arisen from non-life, but the immaterial has arisen from the material.
The new school of darwinites have confirmed the undeniable truth: that God reveals Himself in what He has made so that men who suppress the truth are without excuse [Romans 1].
Nature is indeed a powerful clue that reveals the glory of a transcendent Creator. The first cause of life must be living and the first cause of the immaterial must be spiritual. These things reveal something of the nature of God which is Paul’s meaning in Romans 1…
‘For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made…’