RG, not to go off topic but I can't resist responding to your evolution remarks. Here is a comment by a nuclear physicist with a truckload of degrees that I have read a number of his works. He offers this question, I'll post it and look for your explanation as a biologist and then we can get back navigating the upside down world we've found ourselves in.
"Consider our planet's water system. Water circulates from the oceans and goes over land to deliver rain so that food can grow; then it returns back to the oceans. There is also a complex exchange pattern between plant and animal life. Plants need carbon dioxide and produce oxygen as a by-product; animal life needs oxygen and produces carbon dioxide as a by-product.
This is a world of complex patterns harmoniously interacting so as to sustain themselves. Such patterns are never produced on our scale of observation by chance processes. We see them only produced by intelligence. What experiment has ever shown that functionally coherent complex patterns are produced by the chaotic motion of dust? There are none! Just the opposite is true. Experience abounds where such motion produces patterns with virtually no complexity or information at all.17 Where then is the empirical warrant for the faith that presupposes that lifeless particles first made a home for themselves (the earth), endowed themselves with a living awareness of their own existence (us), and then proceeded to build art museums, music halls, and bowling alleys?"
RG, not to go off topic but I can't resist responding to your evolution remarks. Here is a comment by a nuclear physicist with a truckload of degrees that I have read a number of his works. He offers this question, I'll post it and look for your explanation as a biologist and then we can get back navigating the upside down world we've found ourselves in.
"Consider our planet's water system. Water circulates from the oceans and goes over land to deliver rain so that food can grow; then it returns back to the oceans. There is also a complex exchange pattern between plant and animal life. Plants need carbon dioxide and produce oxygen as a by-product; animal life needs oxygen and produces carbon dioxide as a by-product.
This is a world of complex patterns harmoniously interacting so as to sustain themselves. Such patterns are never produced on our scale of observation by chance processes. We see them only produced by intelligence. What experiment has ever shown that functionally coherent complex patterns are produced by the chaotic motion of dust? There are none! Just the opposite is true. Experience abounds where such motion produces patterns with virtually no complexity or information at all.17 Where then is the empirical warrant for the faith that presupposes that lifeless particles first made a home for themselves (the earth), endowed themselves with a living awareness of their own existence (us), and then proceeded to build art museums, music halls, and bowling alleys?"