Evolutionists Running Scared In Face of ID Challenge

I had to laugh when I read this headline in the morning paper: “Harvard launching project on beginnings of life.” The story tells us that a “team of researchers will receive $1 million annually from Harvard over the next few years” to study how life began.

“My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events hat could have taken place with no divine intervention,” said David R. Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard.

The project has been dubbed, the “Origins of Life in the Universe Initiative.”

The joke is multiple.

As I have written in another place, every attempt by science to produce a credible scenario that would provide a naturalistic explanation as to how life could have ‘evolved” from inorganic matter has, to date, come up short and been discredited.

So far as I know, there is not even a single viable theory on the table for discussion at the moment. Some serious scientists have been forced into the uncomfortable position of speculating that life somehow traveled across inter-stellar space and “seeded” the earth.

Just when evolutionists felt they could relax after getting rid of those pesky Creationists, along comes a new challenge from scientists and others positing a new approach to origins and speciation that they call, “Intelligent Design.”

With well over ½ of Americans still refusing to accept the general theory of Evolution as fact and with research-based challenges to some of their most “sacred” beliefs, Evolutionists have been finding themselves increasingly embarrassed by the questions they have been less and less able to answer.

So, with a confidence that can only come from a “true believer,” Harvard scientists have accepted the challenge of the origin of life with a fist-full of dollars. I, for one, will be very interested to see what they come up with!

I predict nothing tangible, but something remotely, theoretically speculative will eventually arise to justify the spending of all that money. The new “theory” will be couched in such a way that the only way for anyone to prove it “wrong” would be to go back in time “x” million years or so and personally check it out. This theory will be presented to the press as “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” and it will be accompanied by a “dare” for anyone to “prove” it wrong.

The irony, of course, is that it will not be up to anyone to prove it wrong…..it will be up to them to prove it to be correct! But they won’t. Yet the press will eat it up like mochi at a sumo tournament.

I particularly admire the chutzpah inherent in the name they have chosen for their project. Not content to discover the “origin” of life, they proudly proclaim that they plan to find multiple “origins” of life! No humility here! Oh, how I’d love to read the research grant proposal! The hyperbole must be something truly wonderful to see!

And to suggest that they expect to “be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events” is, given the current impasse in scientific circles, amusing enough for only a person of scientific “faith” to take seriously.

In the end they will probably conclude that, since science will one day be able to answer every question, and; since the existence or non-existence of God is not a legitimate concern of science; therefore, whatever did happen when life first emerged “could have” must have “taken place with no divine intervention.”

Like a weary, bleeding boxer entering the final round with no hope of winning on points, these folks at Harvard are betting Darwin’s house on connecting big for a KO at the bell.

Like most things at Harvard it sounds wonderful and exciting. In reality, its called “PR.”