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Does the Darwinist dictatorship exert pressure on the scientific world?

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Have you ever met with such pressure?

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The modern sociological state that exists in the scientific community is one where materialism

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is preeminent.

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Materialism is really the view that is the accepted view of our time.

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And materialism in the older days, and maybe a few centuries ago, the obvious question was

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what about life?

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How could you explain life with matter?

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And that was always a difficult one because you could clearly see so many signs of design.

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But since Darwin, there has been this sense as if the Darwinian explanation really is the

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answer we needed.

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As Richard Dawkins famously said, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled

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atheist.

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The reality though is that the atheists shouldn't be so quickly fulfilled.

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They should not feel so fulfilled intellectually with Darwinism.

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There is deep questions that Darwinism completely left unanswered.

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In Darwin's day, the whole question of the fundamental nature of biology was reduced to

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that of chemistry.

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Darwin said, if we can just imagine in some pond with phosphors and other chemicals, somehow

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these in a fortuitous way got together, we can then maybe imagine the origin of life.

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He left the origin of life pretty much unanswered.

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He thought somebody would figure it out.

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We've had 160 years to do that.

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And what the answer is, is that life is fantastically more complicated.

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Not just chemically.

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But there are essence, essentially in life there are other things going on.

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Life is characterized not just by chemistry, it's characterized by information.

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And not just by information, it's characterized by organization.

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An organization has very specific mathematical technical meaning.

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And the meaning is that at least one good way of saying it is that life as an organized

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entity consists of components with functions.

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Components are interacting in their functions with each other at direct levels and indirect

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levels so that a cell is a fantastically complicated machine.

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And it shows every sign of being engineered because nothing that we know in our experience gives

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organization and information.

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There is nothing in the laws of physics that produce organization and information.

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A typical physicist will tell you that organization is a state of low entropy.

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But in fact, entropy is a very corollary, weak measure of information.

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It is sort of an ancillary measure of information.

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It is a measure.

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But it doesn't capture organization and function.