Evolution by Numbers (Open Letter to an Atheist)

December 4, 2009

Dear Scott,
first of all I want to thank you for having replied to my recent comment in such a calm, kind and
patient manner. It has confirmed to me once again that atheists, as different in their world views from
my own as they may be, sometimes possess the very “Christian” attributes of kindness and patience,
etc., that we, the believers, aren’t exactly always famous for.
Probably a large part of the world doubts the existence of our God at least in part due to to our failure
to behave the way He would want us to.
But you have to see our dilemma: We’re up against a huge construct, the matrix of science, that has
left very little room for an excuse for living for our kind, the ones you refer to as those possessing
“medieval” views. While others may refer to religion as the matrix that holds certain people captive
(and I strongly agree when it comes to many of the dogmas of the established churches and religions),
what bothers me is that a large part of what is being conveyed as “facts” on behalf of the scientific
community is in actuality a far cry from the right to be referred to as thus, and is often only a theory at
best (if it is based on observation) or (if not) some paradigm based on yet another assumption that we
are never told how vague it actually is.
In my opinion, the authority that a lot of our current science apparatus is based on, is raw power: man
power fueled by the gigantic flow of resources poured into the effort to uphold and elaborate on the
philosophy and theory that has become the only acceptable one in our society. In my opinion, it is
comparable to the force dictatorial regimes such as the Soviets under Stalin, the Nazis under Hitler or
the Communists under Mao have used, to only name a few, and coincidentally, the paradigm of
Evolution is the one common factor between those regimes and our supposedly free democratic world.
Thus you can perhaps understand how frustrating it may be to fend against your giant construct when
all we, the Creationists have, is one chapter of a Book that is supposed to give us the only alternative,
which seems totally absurd in the light of what the scientific community claims are the facts.
I want to thank you also for pointing out the one argument which in your opinion speaks in favor of
the existence of our God, and you’re doubtlessly right that without having personally experienced the
Presence and Power of such a God, I would not be wasting my time on writing this.
One thing however, you seem to have ignored completely about my previous comments, and that is
the issue of the discovery of information as a necessary ingredient for any formerly conceived as
“simple” or even simplest life form, and the fact that never in the history of mankind has any force or
process been observed that should have brought forth information from lifeless matter without an
author.
It is here where the Bible gives us a clue that confirms this. It starts out with the same three words as
that infamous first chapter of the Bible that makes those who take the rest of the Book literally the
laughing stock of the scientific community, “In the beginning…,” but then continues with the thought,
“…was the Word.” A word (Greek: logos) is a means to transmit or convey information, and the
German Creation scientist Dr. Werner Gitt has elaborated on this further in his book “In the Beginning
was Information.”
So, we – the community of believers in the Author of that Information – know that at the beginning of
creation (you may prefer to call it the universe) there was, evidently, Information. And I’m talking
information not of the kind that a bunch of chimpanzees could have randomly produced by hacking
away on typewriters for gazillions of years (very lousy argument, btw.), but specific information
necessary to produce a functioning universe with complex life, written in the specific language or
code that the existing receptors of that information were (and continue to be in every cell of your
body) able to process. We’re not talking Hamlet here, but something far more complex.
Now, you and your distinguished colleagues from the science community tell us that there is nothing
that a few billion or trillion years could not accomplish, along with a little bit of luck, and, well,
perhaps the aid of an infinite amount of parallel universes to keep trying their luck at this cosmic
casino, which happened to enable ours to hit the jackpot.
In other words, the difference between your Gospel and ours is, “In the beginning there was time.”
Lots of it. I mean really, lots and lots of it. So much time in fact, that it is totally impossible for us to
comprehend it, seeing that even the alleged 6000 years of world history the Bible comes up with seem
like a dozen eternities to us. So much time that it would sound utterly ridiculous to even start arguing
against it.
The power of your argument then lies in, as I stated above, in the sheer power of numbers:
1. The astronomical sum of money that has been poured into keeping the evolutionary science
apparatus alive over more than a century (Apparently the Vatican isn’t the only entity dedicated to
financing religious beliefs). It would probably be no exaggeration and perhaps even modest to
speculate that a dollar or ten or even a hundred for every year that is supposed to have passed since
the Big Bang may have been just what kept that theory being drilled into every earth child’s head for
the past 70 years.
2. The legions of employees of those resources: teachers, media personnel, professors,
palaeontologists, archaeologists, geologists and members of other sciences who only stand a chance to
last in their profession if they obediently allow their findings to confirm the existing paradigm (What
happened to some of those who didn’t can be seen in Ben Stein’s movie “Expelled – No Intelligence
Allowed!“
3. And, as mentioned before, the number of years it is supposed to have taken for “all of this” (=
Evolution) to have taken place. – A number, by the way, which seems to be subject to the same sort of
inflation over the decades as the currencies that keep the theory blasting in living rooms and class
rooms alike.
Let’s be honest, Scott: We are very easily impressed by numbers. With numbers that you and your
colleagues come up with, it’s easy to stay calm. I’m having to struggle to even pay my rent, because
nobody wants to support a lunatic who seriously believes in the biblical account of Creation. It is
definitely safer to swim with the current of the mainstream of the evolutionary matrix. – Especially
since I’m not part of the machinery of the religious establishment matrix, either.
The only thing I’ve got going for me is a God Who couldn’t care less about numbers and all the odds
against Him and His Cause. He has always, throughout history (the history that you wouldn’t
seriously grant us, because you’ve read dozens of book that told you “It wasn’t really so…”) – well,
throughout what we believe to be history, in that case – won His battles with one or two or a handful
of people against largely superior armies.
If I’m wrong and you’re right, then the wielders of the sheer power of wealth, mass and numerical
superiority may have the world for good, and our brand of lunatics will disappear before long
(especially since it’s our brand of people that is coming dangerously close to be branded as the sort of
“terrorists” that are to blame for all the evils in this world, soon to justify a new, global kind of
holocaust).
However, if – against all the astronomic odds – I and my brothers and sisters should turn out to be
right, after all, it shall be the meek, not the dinosaurs (the Tyrannosauruses of Wall Street et al), who
will inherit the earth.
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