Science? God? Those two things go together?

Hey there today I’m coming in with a scientific, but also reason based video of a Christian worldview on mainly the subjects irreducible complexity and intelligent design. What compelled me so strongly to make this video is the fact that we live in a world that inculcates and praises scientism. And it’s not exactly fair for a growing individual who wants to make and decipher through their own decision. Why be fed only option A when there’s a whole alphabet to be discovered? So by no means am I making this video to try to tear down anybody’s beliefs or like, debate someone, but I just want to offer all this information to you so you can make your own decisions. Okay, I’ve already made this intro longer than I wanted to, because I have a lot of information to cover. I’m trying to get it in a short amount of time. So I’m just gonna hop right into it. 

First, I want to cover a secular view of the origin of life. And I really don’t want to make this part biased in any way. So if you have anything you want to add, add it into the comments below. And I’m going to be reading Bill Bryson’s book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, so that it’s not biased in any way. And keep in mind, I am trying to like, go through this video fast. 

Okay, so here’s the book, I just went through and read and summarized basically, what the chapter said, like how the universe started. And so I’ll read it out to you. So it’s shorter amount of time that I’m not like going through and reading paragraphs you know, so. So, basically a singularity, the size of a billionth of a proton, which is incomprehensibly small, had everything that exists which is 98% of matter. Or 98% of matter, I mean, and then gravity made it expand out forming, like, like this materials as it went. And it caused the radiation and heat which was 10 billion degrees. And precisely formed fine tuned things such as Earth. 

Okay, and even a shorter amount of time, I’m going to summarize how the Christian believe the earth began. First off, I’m going to say there’s very differing views on the subject. Some are theistic evolutionists, mature creationist, some are young earth creationist, which is all good and has equally good points. But  I can only speak from my perspective being progressive creationist, so I’ll tell you about that. So as you see here, and the original text of the Bible, Yom actually means a period of time in Hebrew. So the original text doesn’t say God created the earth in seven days, it said seven periods of times, and we don’t know exactly how long these periods of time are. It is often translated into day in English just for the ease of translation. I also believe in the adaptation rather than mutation. And I believe that science proves God and rather than contradicts God, and I’m going to tell you all the reasons for that right now, the possibility for any life existing is almost infinitely slim. And it’s balanced on a small scale of numbers and ifs, which I’m going to show a bunch of examples should be sliding down some examples. 

Okay. Future editing Taylor, thank you. There you go. I’m going to be carrying on the video for the sake of time, but just pause, if you would like to read any of these, also the almost infinitely crazy number sequence of DNA. And I’m not going to get too far into this because I know there’s a lot of videos and resources talking about this. This DNA sequence actually happening that forms this is like, basically a typewriter exploding and creating the dictionary. Scientists have been baffled over this sequence for years and years. 

Okay, I’m going to move on from that and talk about the irreducible complexity of the cell. Back in Darwin’s time, cells were viewed as not complex in any way, but more like globs of jello. Because of new technology, we are able to see that this is not the case at all. And the insane complexity of these microscopic machines still perplexed scientists to this day. At the supposed beginning of the earth, the cell was in an environment that had absolutely no need to adapt. I’m going to insert a video of me talking about how insanely complex this cell was. [Shows Cell Model] Okay, as you can see here, here’s the animation of the cell. It’s like a rollercoaster. After entering the heart of the cell we view the cell’s DNA process known as transcription and the molecular machine unwinds the section of the DNA helix to expose the instructions needed to assemble a protein molecule. Another machine then copies these instructions to form another message known as RNA. Then, the transcription is complete, it carries it to the nuclear pore complex, which is like a gatekeeper for the traffic in and out of the cell. The RNA strand is then directed to a two part factory called arriva zone and then the process of translation begins. So either I was shown an assembly line forms an extensive chain of amino acids, their sequence arrangement determines which type of protein is made. When the chain is finished, it is then moved from the ribosome to a machine that forms it into the right shape critical to its function. There it is made into a protein that is then released and shepherded by another molecular machine to the location where it is needed. Just consider the irreducible complexity of this, x would not be able to function without y, and y without x making it simply impossible to evolve. And the fact that all these compounds existed in the first place without reason and has the ability to come together and make all this… it’s just crazy. This then leads into one of my favorite topics of irreducible complexity. But first, I want to start with something that I know we’ll get a lot of rolled eyes over.

Okay, what came first, the chicken or the egg? It’s not an actual argument I’m trying to make but I’m using it as a lead into irreducible complexity. Now, think about this… what came first… blood or blood vessels? There’s just certain things in the environment, but also within yourself, that if it was not all miraculously evolving, at the same time, there’d be no chance of life, if it was not able to immediately possess these things, there would be no chance of it living. Kind of going off the top of my head right now… but like… how can the brain function without the digestive system getting nutrients to the brain? How can we have the thought to look for these nutrients without the brain? And how do we have the muscles to go and get these nutrients? And how can we look for them without eyes? Like, it just all has to correspond together. Did the brain telling us we need to eat evolve first or did the liver and mouth evolve that gets these food into our bodies? And what about gender? For the first species to have any chance of them carrying on they would have identical species but fitting reproductive systems. I’m not going to get too far into this. But you know what I mean? Hypothetically, going back to the chicken and egg argument, a hypothetical hen would have to be evolving around a rooster to get a fertilized egg. Okay, let’s move on and talk about the incredible complexity of everything that is so crazily complex that a non purposeful blind and directional process couldn’t have possibly constructed it. I could make a three hour long talk on just this topic itself. But remember, this whole video is just like key points. Because evolution is a blind process, it could not have been like “oh, yeah, we need to make two eyes. Exactly this amount apart because oh, yeah… depth perception!” You have to remember that the evolution theory is a truly blind and unconscious process. And I don’t think a lot of people have a grasp on the fact that a combination of time and scientific laws is not magic, like we make it out to be. It literally does not have a mind of its own. And I don’t think society fully has a grasp on this because people tend to believe in whatever is dressed up in the name of science. If you are a computer programmer, or some type of engineer, you know exactly how difficult it is just to get something to work. Whether it’s big or small, just to get it functioning is a very difficult task. But one thing you do have that evolution does not is rational thinking. The evolution theory is a theory that assumes that complex machines are far far greater and complex and humans have ever been able to make blindly create this matter from nothing without even knowing it. Take for example, the airplane, the airplane was a creation that took years and years for humans to master. It was an extensive and difficult task to get it critiqued and engineered just right? So it can fly. But do you know how we finally figured out how to make it fly? By observing the natural world. And by studying the bird’s wings and seeing how they moved. So how do we think that design came through? Again, a blind process with the complete absence of reason? Why, when we with this ability to rationalize, can’t sometimes do it ourselves? Rational thinking not be the product of irrational causes? It’s a self contradiction. If your mind is a product of the blind, unguided and irrational, how should you trust it? When does it tell you about evolution? We’re because according to that we’re not wired to think for truth. We’re wired, and tuned for survival instincts when the universe started with that infinitely small, dense speck of energy. It wasn’t like, “Oh, yeah, my end goal is to make human beings that can seek out purpose and meaning”. No, again, it had no direction.

From that beginning state, you have to remember that this theory states that all this complexity came from accidents alone, it does not just go from chaos stuff order without any form of intellect. This goes against the second law of thermodynamics. DNA code barriers state that there are frequent occurring mutations within DNA. But however, they can never add new information, no amount of selection can create new genetic information… This makes it impossible for a creature to go from warm blooded, cold blooded or reptile to bird, can you think of anything that is still evolving today? Once I asked my teacher, like, will humans evolve anymore? Like I just asked that during class, and he said something like, humans might go a third arm or something like that. And when he asked what you can tell the class kind of like looking around and like, no one, not even him really believed it. And the truth is like, that is supposedly what happened in the past, even more dramatic changes than that. If you just think about how perfect This world is, I don’t think science can be labeled as a reason why. Given that it has no sense or purpose. The things that supposedly constructed the world today didn’t have any consciousness even know it was doing. So the fact that there is the water cycle, and the earth provides specific nutrients that we need through foods, the function like calcium for strong bones, and just stuff like that. And the plants that give us food also have the ability to reproduce. If you just think about all the ways our bodies function, like our digestive center system, and the ability to breathe, and how plants breathe in carbon and breath out oxygen that humans breathe and the fact that we need sleep and there’s a period called day and night. And we need like darkness triggers sleep hormones, and the fact that we are able to have electricity and just like the incredible fact that we’re like, able to move our muscles and we are able to feel we are able to see we are able to smell. We are able to taste. I don’t know about you, but when our tastes like some good food, that’s like proof of God like 100%. We are able to hear. We have voice boxes to communicate our thoughts and decipher what we’re gonna say. We’re able to read like, see words on a page and understand them. I think the fact that I’m even just alive right now is just like, so magical in a way and I don’t think science alone could ever sum it up. Like like sunsets rainbows views that take your breath away as babies, little puppy dogs, and

 abstract nouns such as beauty, peace, love or joy, excitement, warmth, humor, generosity, compassion. These are just so meaningful that I don’t think it can come from science alone. What I’m describing is something you call qualia. It comes from a philosophical phenomenon called Mary’s room. Okay. Now, imagine a brilliant neuroscientist named Mary. Suppose Mary is colorblind and sees everything in black and white. And even though Mary is colorblind, she is an expert. In color vision, she knows everything ever discovered about its biology and physics. She knows how different wavelengths of light trigger three types of cone cells in the retina. And she knows how electrical signals traveled down the optic nerve into the brain. And there they create patterns of neural activities that make humans be able to distinguish millions of colors. Now imagine one day for the first time in your life and the apple appears that she can see in color. Now she can experience something she knows all about. Did she learn anything new? This idea presents that if knowing all there is to know about colors physically and experiencing, it teaches us something different, it cannot be completely summed up with physical science. It contradicts the theory of physicalism and scientism, which teaches us everything can be explained through science. So summary of this entire video, like life itself is way too meaningful and complex just to come from the irrational and only physical. Now, I can already predict the comments already. I know I’m gonna be accused of being ignorant and not knowing enough about science to make these claims or arguments but I get it, I get it. I am not a scientist. And I don’t claim to be. I’m only a freshman in high school. I mean, so I get it. But there are plenty of incredible sciences that have the exact same view as mine. There’s scientists who have studied this basically all their life and claim also for the call of intelligent design. Okay, there’s no doubt that Albert Einstein was a crazy genius. Though he did not believe in the Christian God throughout his life, he said several statements about his belief in intelligent design, such as “the more I study science, the more I believe in God.” And then there’s Isaac Newton, who is ranked the most influential scientist, and even above the most famous Albert Einstein. There is no doubt that Isaac Newton was brilliant. He was an English physicist and mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, Alchemist theologian, and one of the most influential men in human history… he actually wrote many books against atheism, and some about his belief in Christianity. There are tons and tons of brilliant scientists that believe in intelligent design, such as, I’m just gonna read it off, hold up, because I can’t remember all this. Okay, I just printed off because I had trouble pronouncing the names, but here are some of the most famous theistic scientists. That was only a few but um, I’m going to list a bunch of Christian scientists and if you want to pause the video and view some of them you can if you come with me to this point, I really hope you enjoy this video and share it with a friend if you want to. I’m going to start making more videos and more videos and I’m excited that this is getting out there is exciting and thanks for letting me just say my thoughts on this subject and because like they’ve been in my head for a while, but I’ve just never really communicating and service like, kind of missed the video. For most of it, I was just going off the top of my head. I had like bullet points but like, yeah, so I hope everybody has a blessed day and I look forward to seeing you and future videos and I love you all.

Bye.