May
CREATION versus EVOLUTION Controversy: RESOLVED
The controversy of creation vs. evolution will never be resolved until its proponents recognize that it is no different than any other problem. It comprises two opposite positions. Proponents of each are dedicated to defending their respective positions and build scenarios to support their conclusions. The trouble is that each argument is based on their respective preconceived conclusions.
This controversy is no different than any other problem and, if a resolution is to be realized, they must reject any preconceived conclusions and take an objective look at it from a totally impersonal perspective.
Problems are a conflict of two opposing positions. Webster defines “opposites” as, “elements that are so far apart and diverse as to be totally irreconcilable.” The resolution of any problem demands that reasoning, “the power of the intellect by which one attains to truth and knowledge” (Webster), begin at the beginning.
That beginning must be the intellect of the concerned parties capacity to reason intelligently. This must be an unconditioned intellect or “activity requiring the creative use of rational, intelligent thought…from an original source” (Webster).
Because this intelligence is an activity occurring within consciousness, logic demands the conclusion that there can be only one being or “life.” According to Webster, “life” is “the quality that distinguishes a vital functioning being from inanimate matter…that which is known or felt by one’s inner self or consciousness.”
Our human life experiences interpret this as a humanly circumscribed form that is the opposite of Webster’s “quality that distinguishes a vital functioning being from inanimate matter.” Reasoning from the phenomenon of OPPOSITES, there are two interpretations of the one cause. Further, that one must reason that, like any pair of opposites, one is real while its opposite is unreal. One is true and its opposite is false. You can have one or the other but you cannot have both at the same time. One absolutely cancels the other.
We must conclude, then, that in the controversy of Creation vs. Evolution, BOTH positions are correct from each one’s respective points of view, but only the ONE cause can be valid from Webster’s definition of “life.”
See my blog post “The Search for Life” for further discussion.
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