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CHAPTER 5

 

ENEMY OF SCIENCE, ASSASSIN OF TRUTH, ALIEN FROM GOD

 

The Fuzzy Scientistic Dream of Evolutionism and its Ilk, 

with the Philosophic Nightmare: Logicide!

 

PRAISE AT PERFORMANCE FROM THE GREAT ARTIST,
CREATOR OF MAGNIFICENCE UNPARALLELED,
PRODUCER, ENGINEER
AND PROGRAMMER CELESTIAL

News 375, Answers in Genesis, April 6, 2006
and news report

 

There is so much for which to praise God. Consider the skies, a universe in themselves, long before you travel into the vast diversities and eminently discrete, magnificently arranged and testimonial wonders of articulated space (cf. TMR Ch. 7, esp. E, F, Ch. 1 above). In the cloud's own universe, come the cumulus, the hammer and anvil, in its impending intensity, the torrential drivings, the tempestuous flurries and the settled peace, the exquisite and continual artistries of fond farewells from the colourful orb, as it sends letters of beauty from its departing yellows and red, seen in new intensity on the spreading coastlands and broad expanses of the ever self-healing seas.

These two, sharply salty, receiving endless abuse from fish farms and vessels, not to mention rivers shamelessly polluted pouring evil minerals into the sea - evil for man, and from man, remain yet basically healthy and ready to serve. Their own nautical lives of magnitude and masses, urgings from the moon, to do their shore-line cleansing, not missing a day, providing surf for those who disport themselves in its lively hues, exulting in its sheer grandeur, these bear testimony to the East and to the West, Atlantic or Pacific, or in Australia's grand Southern Ocean, to that same magnificence which lives also, in potential, in man's own spirit. By this,  he is even able to perceive such wonders, to contemplate, to glory in the Lord and to praise Him for his vast array of endlessly deposited and discretely different creations.

In man himself, there is the mathematical genius who can remember 10,000 digits of p or some such symbol, the poetical melody which can write symphonies in words, the musical vision which can write the Messiah in 3 weeks,  and TO man is given the Messiah Himself, who eternal beyond time as the perpetual and personal word of God, even visited this planet, unique in its provisions, to BE a man with us, and that, not in some exotic travel lust, as if He had not seen what He had first made.

Praise the Lord, the Lord was not like that. He had work to do, just as does the ocean as it thrashes the debris and moves out the beaten pollution, clearing the shores. His task was far more challenging, and meant not only that He should sweep the soul of man, but cleanse it also. Yet this, it was not with mere motion, glorious as that can be in such a grand spread along the stretching littorals of this earth, but with meditated and premeditated precision, allied with a wonder of Spirit which showed a heart to melt stone. This, it was another clearance, and it was not a sale but a purchase.

Whoever would purchase such filth as lies in the heart of man, impurity in mental lust, in spiritual ambition and in bodily surge, whether martial or carnal; and who buy it ?  for it is less than worthless, and litters not the littoral but the spirit of man! Who but God, the lover from whom all sacrificial love and noble desire derives, whether toward those detached in grandiose self-pride, as if one had made it, or attached by the pipe-line of fellowship to Himself, and so purified and clean, and able to serve! (Titus 2 - 3).

Who but He would purchase such pollution, and pay in agony of Spirit, horror of mind (Hebrews 5:7, Luke 22:41ff.)!  Having foreseen all and foreknown it, He thus ensured that His payment should be pure and His strength poured out where it counted, on the Cross of Calvary. There darkness anointed the sun, and the spirits of those lusting for survival of their State, or their own lives, and willing to remove the greatest power that had ever walked on this earth, His power to heal, power to speak, power to rebut error, power to inspire and majesty of spirit, without limit (John 18:18ff.,11:49ff., 22:52ff., 1:29, Luke 9:22., 9:43ff., 11:49-5418:31ff.), wrought their woes! Who would have faced it, who would have conceived such a plan or followed such a schedule, but He! Who COULD have paid but He, in whom no sin resided (I Peter 2:22ff.), and who resisted the making of resistance, lest the scriptures would not be fulfilled! (Matthew 26:51-56).

Who would command such an army as He, for whom the martyrs in the apostleship were an example to those assailed or sacrificed ever since, whether to the spate of violence which emerged from Romanism on the heads of countless thousands, whether to Communism, or to Islam, with that last proceeding now as lust conquers restraint and folly mounts like a tsunami on this earth, only to die, as all such things do, when it time is spent!

And the purchase ? the souls of men, and the means, force ? not at all.

Majesty commands, humility draws, reality appeals, love conceives and brings forth from the children of man, an army whose weaponry is not to harm, but to help, not to seduce but to serve, and this, not for the glory of some nation or concept, but that of  the God of the creation of which man is part.

It is He who is

bullet  the Redeemer of Job's vision,
 
bullet the Saviour of Isaiah's detailed prophetic depiction,
 
bullet the Messiah of Daniel's address in Ch. 9, where he even was inspired to give the date
of this event, with a precision most fitting for such an occupant of the throne of creation
(Highway of Holiness Ch. 4).

It is He,

bullet the Judge of Micah 5,
whose face the people strike, the Eternal God Himself: there etched with prophetic precision to include His birth-place, Bethlehem.

Micah's presentation comes with a concise and etched precision (Ch. 5) concerning
 the identity and the repudiation of this Messiah while Hosea's delineation of
the genesis of our exodus from the rule of sin, in God Himself.

In Hosea, again in 13:14, 
 
bullet there appears in background,
in the heart of God who HIMSELF will obliterate death by paying for the excision
on behalf of His people who come to Him. It is He who as in Isaiah 25:8,
will "swallow up death in victory."

It is there in Hosea 13 that we behold in time straight from the eternal heart of God
who is beyond our time, the genesis of our exodus from the rule of sin.

It is there that we find the divine declaration of consecration to the task of our deliverance,
which involves the sacrifice to come, which Isaiah 52-53 itemises in detail
and Isaiah 55 shows in its liberty and love.

It is He who is sent, who Himself is the Lord (Isaiah 48:16). In the intimacies of the Godhead, thus is sent from the Lord the Saviour, whose work is communed over by His Spirit, who also hovered or brooded over the first physical creation, as now over the spiritual creation of man. Such is this remarkable declaration in Isaiah 48, so like that in Hosea 13:14, and Isaiah 43:10-11 with 53, where the only Saviour being God, it is God in human form who "shall bear their iniquities".

Well might the prophet enquire: "Who has believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed!" for it strikes against the ingrained warp in the sinful heart of man, set in sin not to know such love; though it is only there that man becomes what he is designed to be, alive in the image of God!

Such has He, the Lord God (John 20:27-29), wrought for man.

Yet how varied is His creation. You have the kinds in cattle and plant, in man and the entire realm of the sea, so varied as David points out (Psalm 104:25). You have also the ingenious wisdom wrought as Proverbs 8:12) by the Wisdom of God, and the marvellous timing and blending of all the programmatic provisions of His speech, by which He commanded material things into their designated, designed and determinate existence (Genesis 1, Hebrews 11:1-3, 1:1-3, II Corinthians 4:6). Here over all these works is the invisible source of the visible, the undelimited captain that set all and each component in its highly varied and express place.  Here is the spiritual basis of the structure, and of the spirit of man.

As to that spirit, it is set in it like a jewel, however much it would become discoloured by the abuse of its structure, and the ruin of its function through the very marvel of its spiritual liberty. By this, it may proceed to love or to hate, to obscure the vision or glory in it, to love God or to seek to hide Him, and eventually, to deride Him on the Cross.

There goes the platypus, with its duck bill, unique electromechanical system with its electro receptors, its mammalian category and its watery livelihood as it floats down streams in a quiet and meek manner, its protective spur and venom in the thigh region, capping all by laying eggs and then nestling and nurturing its young. What a combination of characteristics! There again is that wide set of brilliant diversities by which in an engineering sort of way, whole blocs or items are inserted into various receptors, just as intelligence is wont to do, for why should one invent all over again, what already serves, except of course in the rush and majesty of artistry ? But all is not artistry, and design has its modes, as we all know from our own use of it!

In our own creativeness, too, is the flourish of diversity in the wonder of imagination, and the thrust of multi-purpose parts, employed now here now there, whether in engineering or in poetry or prose!

You do not find their precursors, in such cases of divine creation (cf. Denton's continual rejection of the evidential abyss for the progressivist conceptions in Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, attesting that continuity has only existed in the mind of man, not in the maw of Nature*1A). Indeed, you often find no precursors in some of the incandescent originalities of man and his own little creations!

These acts of the Creator, to institute the stage and the actors in life: They do not flow in a river of fluency, magically design begetting design, all moving into being like ooze forming and formulating birds, or even amoeba: they are not found to do this empirically, any more than logically; nor do their successors attest for them a plastic position in the moving marvel of inexplicable creation.

What then of such  'inexplicable action' which is repeatedly attested of the sudden invasions which men frequently are forced to declare of this or that phase of creation, coming onto the stage of time in super-abundance and immediate sophistication (Gould not least), what of this imagination of such gradual nascencies of design slowly  uplifting themselves in serial and sensible sequence as for any good magician ?

The cartoon-like transformations, step by step as each useless appendage dangles in preparation for the next so that they can work some time in the distant future together, they do not show themselves. They are never seen. They cannot even be stimulated to occur. The idea is defunct, at testimony only to the indefatigable imagination dowered to man when he was given liberty from conformity to law, and ability to throw ideas around.

This gradual gearing up for coming greatness ? this phasing-in of bits in preparation, of gradations for the finesse of eventual articulation in the realms of utter complexity and integrality of being:  what of it ?

It is imagined, but it is not found in the scope of events, or in the constraints of the kinds (cf. The Defining Drama Ch. 10). That is why you have the cries of outrage from Løvtrup, Goldschmidt, Nilsson, Gould, Thompson and a host against the anti-empirical gradualistic dreams that invent only confusion! (cf. SMR Ch. 2, with Ch. 3, pp. 315Aff., Wake Up World! ... Chs. 4-6), and the level-headed insistences of Lord Kelvin (cf. TMR Ch. 1) in the same undeterrable direction.

This wilful incomprehension, it is the irrational reaction to His grandeur, just as for man's own mead of creation, there are many who seem never satisfied, as C.S. Lewis noted, except they are imagining how this or that book came to be. NEVER, he intimated, had he found them accurate in their imaginations concerning his writings. Creation has its own modes!

Rather, empirically, the designs come as they must: they come discretely, each turned out by a sufficient impetus and conceptual mastery for the event: they evince their ancestry not in versions in the making, but in the mind of the Maker.

This they do  as Shakespeare's plays came*IB, as Handel's Messiah, as Bach's marvels, by effort and work from mind and design, from understanding's provisions, which are aware of the limitations, invent the laws, enable the compatibilities and endue the forms with law, minute and addressed, in the domain of law, vast and biblically voiced long before 'science' ever caught up (cf. TMR Ch 1,  at this site ,  and that), Indeed, as Ch. 1 shows pervasively, the whole of scientific testimony requires nothing less or other than the Creator, when carefully examined and systematically considered, step by step.

In SMR, pp. 252Mff., you see what a parade of this type there is, as now set out for you,  below.

Indeed, we could go further. There is in evidence a supreme independence within creation. Just as similar creations, products, may be constructed (as we have just noted Denton has shown) with diverse principles; so too may most diverse objects employ similar modules (cf. Denton, op.cit. pp. 109-110). Such is the genius of creativity: untamed, exuberant, intelligent. Through versatility, neither is art enslaved by method, nor is technique dimmed in brilliance in the presence of art.

Dr Evan Shute in his brilliant work, FLAWS IN THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION, p. 169, mentions Onychophora, a class of creature resembling an annelid in "having more regularly arranged nephridia, something not seen in insects. But it has tracheae, like simple forms of those used by insects and centipedes - something worms never have". He mentions Peripatus, with body-wall musculature like that of worms - but resembling insects in having TWO pairs of appendages serving the mouth. Such composites do not "fit the tidy taxonomies of biologists", but a "living form can share the morphology of other lowly types without being related genetically". This of course is wholly contrary to evolutionary expectation, as Shute observes.

Likewise Shute mentions the "independent origin of eyes in so many phyla, or of breasts in the three subclasses of mammals, for example the Monotremes, Masrsupials and Placentals." To this he adds: "And yet the mammae of the Monotremes differ from the rest fundamentally".

Again Shute (op.cit. p. 81) notes the similarities of eyes in man, octopus and cow; and indeed they are "cast" in for their roles with a delicious freedom attached to unwitherable technical skill. Just as product and intelligence criteria are met, definition fulfilled (*46 supra), so here we have an a fortiori development. What then would be correlative to product presentation, and the exercise of intelligence ? Why this: Freedom of thought and creativity in the process!

In other words, while there is nothing here in favour of any concept of ORGANIC transmutation, what IS discernible is something of a different order or nature altogether. It is DELIBERATIVE DESIGN. Whole networks of order and design (that could in this be compared to exhaust systems or carburettors in motor cars - though those would be enormously simpler - finely milled to a low level of tolerance) may be transferred to other uses AND adjusted or specifically developed, so covering, now in this creature, now in that, certain features for the individual.

That is the fact. Moreover, neither the mechanism for the organic theory nor the transition series to illustrate, appear. If one reviews definitive statements by specialist after specialist, one reads that ABSENCE of such transitions is deplorable or frustrating or mysterious or challenging or a major problem, or the major problem, or systematic...

We have reviewed such declarations not a little. It is all there: there is no mystery about that. The cries seem to come more and more from the heart of unbelieving scientists.

 

As the Psalmist puts it,

 

"O LORD, how manifold are Your works!

In wisdom You have made them all.

The earth is full of Your possessions -

The great and wide sea,

'In which are innumerable teeming things,

Living things both small and great."

 

 

THE PEREMPTORY PASSION TO OUTWIT WIT
WITH THE SUB-MORONIC

Now we find another apparent visitor to this realm. Reported, but still subject to confirmation by creationist scientists, is a creature called Tiktaalik. Exotic in the Arctic, its source or at least it discovery site, it has apparently a lobed fin, as does the Coelacanth, the remarkable fish which from ancient to modern times, where it still exists, shows no notable change whatever, being content to be of its own kind, and lacking the power to be categorically different, and hence not using it. Useful as this labelled lobe  is to the observable Coelacanth, which has had the grace to remain for inspection, as a nautical aid in manoeuvring*1, it is scarcely a finger. For that, you look to the equally multi-construction design elements in the realm of the salamander!

Here is magnificence of imagination! Here is brilliance of programming to stun and astound! Here is a wonder past all genius, in the institution, abundant and exotic, as in the plays of Shakespeare for sheer exuberance of a SERIES of deployments of wit and working.

Not only in this salamander realm, do we find such things as larva stage gills in the fish mode, and adult recession of the same in favour of an alternative mode of ingesting oxygen, namely lungs, but there is capacity, depending on need, to remain in the fish form for years; and one has seen talk of the resumption of the larva form! Here is a car that becomes a duck, but more, a space craft that resumes as a tractor, or sedan! It is even more demanding: for as to those who do not live, and life can be snuffed in a few seconds for lack of oxygen. It must be perfect in its transition, the recession of the gills, the possession and functionality of the lungs, it must all happen in the manner of turning on and off the air-conditioner in a car.

It must be perfect as is the infant's transition from embryo to born babe, with a matter of seconds for the full transfer by planned enterprise, from oxygen via maternal placenta, to this same vital gas, via lung! It must be something that can be super-added without the destruction of life through any muddling on the way OUT for the former alternative method of sustaining life. Frenzied, or even foozling efforts to do the instant transformation from one mode to the other, these do not appear. What appears, is what works in profusion, unembarrassed, as if genius threw out endless books of delight, unstoppable, unconcerned, imagination in gear and massive wisdom embarking without cease to invent, to create.

What then of the salamander transition in its cycle ? Not merely in its day (cf. Psalm 139:16*2A) does it stretch forth a probing or sailing device, a swimming method, but when it makes its transition, it is thorough, or rather the program is highly particular and superb in its authenticity, providing for limbs to accompany the newly functioning lungs, and finger type projections to adorn the limbs! It is a conscientious transition, and its multiple capacities that seem to be present for the suitable and demanding occasion, are the more amazing.

It is one thing to INVENT something which forced by devices, does this and that; but it is quite another to invent life that does it, and cannot proceed unless it does it well. It is useless to make experiments, since these are liable to be fatal, not to a few hours' work, but to life. It must WORK. That is doubtless why in the wisdom and intelligence of the Programmer, there is the absence of evidence of futile blunders, and this is so complete that it brings a contented smile to the face of the observer.

Of what is there then this absence ? It is of all the modes on the way, the staggering multitudes among the billions of failed efforts of unintelligence on the anti-aetiological anti-vision, littering the littoral, compounding the silt, lost in the rock or covered in the piles of specimens, which Nilsson noted, go down in so many places, allochthonous and varied indeed from all over the world in type, flood relics of catastrophic proportions indeed.

This litany of failed types: it is not found amongst the billions of relics, fossilised.

Neither there nor elsewhere do they come to the eye, since the mind of God is not required to experiment: experimental approach is a property of creation, which has limits, does not know, and has been given power to find out many things, though when sin blinds, not the pathology of its own soul! With the Creator, neither does power need it, nor does evidence attest it.

What we do find is exquisite articulation of given features, made in this or that manner and on this or that system, emplaced now here, now there, in the fashion and formula of intelligence. Not only is the production chain in the DNA, RNA diversity of polished brilliance heavily reminiscent of human intelligence's more limited but cognate performances in the assembly lines, as Denton points out in his Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. The RESULTS also have the same disposition for the critical eye to behold. It is intelligence's realm; and this more than ours. How is this so ?

We labour for far smaller outcomes, within the modes of our material resources and spiritual dynamics, these enabling us to rove and to conceive, this time not children but works of thought: but that in which we are made to belong, the universe of prodigious innovation, systematisation and liberties unthinkable for the programmatic*2B, it is sui generis, with the lustre of luminiscent lordliness.

There comes the whale, a vast fish to the outward glance, but a mammal that can suckle in a maritime manner which needed from the first to be perfect, or to sabotage all by drowning, like that of the ill-fated French fleet in World War II. How prodigious are these works that have no parallel anywhere or at any time or in any realm, except that of intelligence, which hence must be invoked; for if a moron could not construct at this level of programmatics, how much less what IS less!

It is necessary at all times to be realistic, and in scientific method, one does not choose what DENIES in verificatory residues and observable potencies, but rather what AFFIRMS in parallel performance,  and this the more when empirically as logically, nothing less than this ALONE does this thing, without comparison in quality, or competition in works!

The whale too has a vast whale-bone reinforcement, but with it, of course, there is articulation which is denied to the lobed fin in the case of Tiktaalik, according to report. Fish, like Tiktaalik, do not have this articulation, do not need to support their weight on land, hence do not  evidence the means to do so, in this way. Moreover, although the report in  The Australian (April 7,  2007, p. 10) speaks of sharp teeth, as if the thing might actually bite, this is certainly no anomalous distinctive, since shark's are normally regarded as fish, and not only have sharp teeth but a plenitude of them, and a ferocious appetite and  a gorging appearance to boot. Tiktaalik neither in lobed fins nor teeth is anything to write home about.

As to the 'croc' appearance alleged: this is nothing at this stage of any note. Appearances are often partly in the eye of the beholder, and partly in certain similarities of design, which you often find in various architects' works, where affinities of thought in the mind of the creator bring about relationships of a more or less obvious character, in quite different buildings, from his portfolio.

In human, too,  heads as with fish, differ enormously, if more subtly. Thus

bullet some have a distinct look of the fox in its sly cunning, and may have certain parts relatively cut away to accentuate this;
 
bullet some have mutton looks, sheepish and indistinct, with perhaps a little flab on the side cheeks;
bullet some resemble pigs, floppy flaps of skin hanging as if semi-detached, small eyes,
a glinting look, and a rather intemperate aspect, sometimes accentuated by the girth.
 
bullet Some have the lupine look, with the gleam of readiness to devour,
subtly interwoven with an appearance of cunning and determination,
perhaps with jaws attenuated.
 
bullet Some resemble apes or bob-cats. Indeed, just yesterday in a sporting program,
one person had a look so like that of the bob-cat, bustling, quick, alert, ready to pounce,
tense, with whiskers to match, that it seemed almost a dress-up!
 
bullet Some can most decidedly resemble the appearance of the horse,
the horsy look with rounded brow and sunken cheek,
 
bullet others that of the rat, with quick-moving eyes, sharp noses and quick-moving hands;
yes, and on occasion, a sharp darting aspect, for leg and glance, as if bent on escape,
and diligent in research for the right method!

The humour invested in such creations, and in man, whose mind can run parallel by choice, is intense, as is the irony. It is all most instructive to man, that creative artist, with such a measure of spiritual freedom - and guilt, often diversified with guile (cf. News 74, Beyond the Curse).

A little imagination and the resemblance can seem striking. A little care and the eye can be more careful.

That was where the Lord Zuckerman computer procedure in terms of  multi-variate analysis was so helpful, in making measurement, and so preventing the imagination from following its bent. Instead, Zuckerman set about straightening things up a bit, as he declared the whole Australopithecene delusion to be just that, and the creature concerned not possibly to be ancestral to man (cf. SMR pp.204-206), something reinforced by the ironic and careful observations on this score, of Oxnard (loc.cit.).

It is amazing what the eye can see that the mind knows little about! Whatever however the actual, measurable appearance of the head of this latest Cinderella, the Tiktaalik, for intermediary honours, the diversity and voracity of fish is not altered in kind by any such appearance as this!

Indeed, it was, in the same frame of reference, Oxnard who observed that

"There never has yet been announced a new find
that was not a human ancestor" (loc.cit.).

In context, this was delicious humour and manifest irony, as he dismissed and dispensed with the sensationalism, what indeed might be called spectacularism of those for whom the call of desire outwits the criteria of evidence, apparently blinded in their passion in this field, for results, and by the desire to conform to that vast gulf of evolutionism, transitional sequence the point at issue. Moreover, NOT to do so can abolish careers, limit rights of publication, remove from the arena of prestigious magazines, quite as much as Hitler could remove what was deemed culturally odious by ... other means.

This absenteeism, of 'nature' which refuses to play ball with aetiological asininity (*4),  is the more devastating since even the MEANS for it are missing in biological life. Not only does this result not appear, but the means for it, the constructor units, never disappear; for they are as absent as snow in a cauldron, and having no place, cannot lose it!

They are not found; nor are their results. The apparatus of destiny is not so designed. Only the alogical antenna pick up anything here, and it comes ... and this repetitively,  to pass. As is clear in information theory, from Professor Gitt*2,  this is what happens in such a setting; and he speaks where his field  specialty lies. Data, information, tends to disappear adn not to 'arise', when unsourced in intelligence.

In fact, information simply does not COME that way, but requires a source sufficient. It has conceptual data organised for reception by code and law, and it is not to be found in their absence, either logically or empirically. Hence, labouring under such logical duress and in such empirical vacuums, it is small wonder that the excesses of which Oxnard speaks, are so common as he indicates!

 

Indeed, in full accord with Gitt's specialised and notable work, Answers in Genesis in April 2006 on this topic:  declares:

"we can confidently state that evolutionists have no examples of mutations or evolutionary processes that can lead to an increase in genetic information":

- for example in a creature that is to 'move' to a reptilian arm from a fish fin, in full scale organic evolution. As the past President of the French Academy of Science, Pierre-Paul Grassé declared:

"No matter how numerous they be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution'' (cited from Evolution in Living Organisms, p. 88, cf. SMR p. 208).

In precise parallel, Professor Løvtrup, noted with some apparent disgust at the simplistic substitution of desire for thought (SMR p. 252A):

"Neither in nature nor under experimental conditions have nay substantial effects ever been obtained through systematic accumulation of micromutations."

It is useless to pretend that unsystematic, unsupported, unverified and logically invalid efforts (cf. Repent or Perish Ch. 7, TMR Ch. 5, Scaling the Heights... Ch. 5) to MAKE the thing happen, will ever prevail. Systems of units are not life; systems of life are not geniuses: they all do their systematic parts according to specifications and limitations. Orders of being do not come by magic, or by any other sub-systematic creation. They require what is a maestro, operative according to the case, with the various systematic levels, and ultimately, in our own case, limited, created,  the power to transgress, to deceive oneself or others, through  ill-will, ambition or self-importance, the liberty to err, idly or amply to deviate into the mists of muddle and confusion, without compulsion, as seen in educative distresses! (Cf. The Closing of the American Mind, a work of Alan Bloom, SMR pp. 354-355, 377, and Beyond the Ivory Tower, by Lord Zuckerman.)

You do, as always, need what it takes, and hierarchical and systematic combinations of precise resources*3A  require what sub-moronic non-intelligence lacks: correlation capacity to bring integral totality of multiple sub-systems and ingenious devices matchlessly mutually adjusted (compared with man's expertise) into operational and felicitous functional performance.

It is not simply as Hoyle pointed out*3, that the contrary assumption is like expecting a Boeing aircraft to come from an explosion. The case is that the immediate workability of an integral totality of mutual functional dispositions, ordering series in sequential productivity is a different sort of thing, than a form doing what its function requires, at a base level.

Such functional additives, to make new kinds,  are never seen to be part of the equipment at the base level; and when these 'arrive', the most sophisticated life structures, yet for all their brilliance, they have no domain where original creations are to resurge, without intelligence to work it, no facility for the  invention of new kinds; and even if they did perform programmatic uplifts, it would be a messy and multiply intricate way of using power to provide such. Transferring a Volkswagen to a Boeing 707 is far worse than making both, and in principle, adaptations of complexities innumerable to other facilities, functions and modes, with the mathematics and engineering in view, would be a nightmare compared with making each in its time.

In full accord with creationism, such devices are NOT found, nor are their traceable results from step to step.

Nothing of this kind of increasing data complexity to upgrade design without intelligence, ever seen. In all of the observations of contemporary science, it does of course, never happen. There has been shrieking for it, for it would be so nice with nothing to support the vacuous ideas of evolutionism: but it does not come*4.

 

Now this type of eye, way back to the (alleged) day of the trilobite, or in the octopus, nowthat  in man: so does the brilliance and sophistication fail to be limited in (alleged) time, but pours out in the Cambrian, as Stephen Jay Gould so emphasised that he cried out in print, What in heaven's name is the explanation, that so vast a platform of design comes at or near the (alleged) outset era, and then DIMINISHES (by his note) by 90% to our day*5.

What is this increment that is decrement, and what is this gradualness that is sudden, and how can such a splendour come so soon! It is precisely the same in the realm of astronomy, where so many discrete structures and amazing performances arise so 'soon'! There is no escape, no revisionism which can rescue from this, even on the geological model chosen.

bullet Non-correlation of sequences,
 
bullet non-availability of logical means,
 
bullet non-slippage billions of foozled oddities, in a domain of countless failures,
 
bullet non-provision at the contemporary level for the real necessity of Nilsson
(cf. SMR pp. 108 -11 e.g.), with immediate creation
because of total inter-dependency of what lives,
matched by the vast and disastrous removal of what dies:

this is the regimen for disciplined thought.

Instead, there are abrupt catastrophic ruins on the one hand and sudden multiplied finds on the other.

Further, there is

bullet non-settlement with Schützenberger,
with his concept of the removal-is-not-arrival conundrum in artificial intelligence
(cf.  SMR pp.128 - 135),
 
bullet and non-removal of the problem by tilted computer sequences which beg the question*6A,
unlike his own,
 
bullet plus presence of multiplied variants in what objectively
and definitionally are design types*6, in sudden advent in the Cambrian,
sudden cells of vast sophistication, sudden changes of enormous significance,
darting into time, on secular theory's own spans, like swallows in flight (cf. SMR pp. 106, 236).
Of interest is the notation of Professor George Gaylord Simpson, of Harvard:
 

Gaps among known orders, clases and phyla are systematic
and almost always large (loc. cit.).

For the gamut of great designs in this natural domain, there are no prefaces, only chapters (cf. SMR pp. 159ff., 199ff., 235ff., Denton - Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, pp. 77, 216-230).  The sheer extravagance and liberality of the creative thrust is so great, as is paralleled even in such small but significant areas of comparison as our own varieties of  cars, aeroplanes, plays, symphonies, that fixes of this or that element of similarity here or there may indeed be found: but there is never any question of OBSERVING in one domain or the other, in one field or the other, where logic applies and causation is conclusive, the transition from one to the other, at these levels.

There is brilliant diversity, sometimes with near approach to other things, but no steps in between other than those which imagination constructs, and the needed stairway obstructs: there is multiplicity of method, even for similar events, and a supreme creativity's work is on all sides attested, where, were mere results and not void efforts to construct illogical means not present, a resurgence of uninhibited brilliance is displayed. Rushed into 800 co-ordinated lenses, or magnificent displays of beauty as you will: there is that disdain for mere 'necessity' and that contrivance for other arenas of display which needs no explanation. It is what creativity does.

What lacks imaginative enterprise does not do it, ever by observation or concatenation; what has it, loves to do it. We do it ourselves, our brilliant displays, at our own level, often exuberant almost beyond belief, with disdain for some former method as we use another, delving into wisdom to find other ways, other facades in architecture, of cathedral or centre, other forms of literary creation!

What we find, and what we have as our  own observable enduement in creation enterprise,  fits in everything. What evolutionism in its organic witlessness (that is, the theory in view, in its domain) insists, is precisely what is not to be found. Imagine an unarticulated skeletal part being used for such dummy desires and presented as transition, or a lobed fin discovered, something in type often found and capable of being considered in present day cases: and yet all this tumultuous passion in the news!

This repetitive and repetitively vain furore, this too requires scientific explanation, and all the data provide it readily as above: frustration in all fields yields increasingly excitement in any, on inadequate grounds, as basic facts are forgotten, and the skycraft of imagination, with which man is liberally endued, forges its way into the clouds of emptiness, looking in vain, and of course, for a solid landing ground. There lies the motive; there lies the impossibility; there lies the excitement's source. How wonderful to find what cannot be, a gold-mine in your drawing room, on the concrete foundation, already working and in place, and remarkably not breaching the floor.

The case is ever the same: reason is no myth, but what denies it. You do NOT arrive at specialised mathematical complexity of superb proportions by the lack of skill, nor do you invent such realms at all by dumb deadness, but by a keen and lively mind that floats the fancies into existence, and a hearty facility which performs the flotation into fact, by instituting it in all its rigours. It is no different in the production technologies, which implement the thought, required for integrality of being, all subjected to command and subordinated to ultimate outcome in a multitude of minutely surveyed means and co-ordinated constructions.

So too is the case with cells themselves which, as Denton is swift to inform us, NEVER come in primitive forms, but their complex brilliance adorns the tarmac of life at all times, always a marvel, never either a 'trial' or a ' primordial' visitor. Why have this when you KNOW, as God does!

The endless search within the grounds of futile irrationalism remains an inept alternative to due examination of the means of life as it is and exhibits itself to be, being presented, not as it is not (cf. Life, what is it ? and What is Life For ?).

 

SURVEYING THE SCENE

The issue is not  how many creatures, with their designs are present -

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though their integrally operative, functionally meaningful,
systematically synthesised ontology and modes are staggering for their sheer abundance
of complexities and resultant simplicities,
the one leading to the other,
while the due, sophisticated, sequenced, correlative compounds,
combinations and mutually interactive elements, parts, groups of parts,
re-grouping of the groups to phases, aspects and then the multi-purpose functions,
in what is nevertheless a unitarily conceived whole,
represent, in this earth of physical form and law, an exercise unsurpassed in crisp brilliance,
architectural mathematics and executive precision:

but whether they beget one another.

Even, however, as we differentiate the issue, we can only in all observational acuity, be near to overwhelmed by the diverse modes, phases and aspects of order, mutually involved, serially significant, creating order by order, their intimate functional relationships, their hierarchical containment. It is as if it were all in an envelope, posted for another in the construction as each new generation is made up from the old, using in their multi-method maestro work, one and one only unitary language complex, so that if this were not a design, the word could have no meaning (cf. *6 above).

Just as a brilliant mathematical proof, or presentation is not NON-EXISTENT unless you see it being made, its standing not diminished by your knowledge or otherwise of its past and method of compilation, and stands on its own merit, so here: the designs are independent for definitional purposes of who did them, or when, or how. They have the criteria of designs more than any material creation of man. Hence to deny them that title means we must deny it to all of human productions likewise, alter the definition of design and perform marvels of obfuscatory distancing from all the required canons of formal logic, sliding into surreptitious irrationality. The alternative is simple: this is design. Distaste becomes disgrace when, as here, it miscalls; and miscalled it is as if dishonesty were the height of rectitude, or failure the acme of success. So does a whole generation proceed to its increasingly obvious doom, fey with the fairies instead of ruthlessly realistic about what confronts it, and soon, the One who will confront it.

So to miscall what has such ingredients ? to what shall we compare it ?

That would send artists into a near frenzy, since it is a monstrous assault on their integrity/reality/ability. If someone sent an anonymous design, it would not be disallowed AS design because of that. In fact, however, it all depends on objective criteria: and here we find them par excellence.

There is no argument if we are to be objective: it is design.

Do then the designs beget one another ? Does one of Raphael's paintings beget another ? Does one car, say a Cadillac, beget a Jaguar ? The question is simple in this realm (cf. *1B above). It does not. The author or painter may indeed consult this or that one of his or her former designs, but the creative surge is beyond mere comparison. Are they not both fast, and is there not an enormous resemblance between the engines and their mode of action, and as to the differences, well, do they not arise ? But here the motor companies would all but despair of your sanity, wondering if perhaps they were addressed by one of sub-moronic intelligence, if you said this.

Is it not the pearl of their subtlety that makes those 'little' differences! Is it not the ultimate divergencies of vision and understanding that lead to them! Are we  not in the domain of sweat and tears, self-discipline and survey, vision and inspiration, drafting with the mind and hand, before committing to the plain light of common day, where the visible results of the invisible toil are to be seen! What else! Has the speaker no knowledge of how creation works! they might ask... Would not a painter two of whose creations had very comparable features, be mystified by our arrogance and ignorance if we even began to ask if he had some sort of complex equipment hidden in the one painting which managed to make it arrive into the world of art, as another, while retaining its own status ?

Do paintings merge ? Do the first cousins of thought, wrought into this world of space and time, do this ? Is creation so easy ? Is adaptation really even practical and is it evidenced in the process, observable in the doing, or are the MEANS for it to be found ? Is this the mode of action in life, except by EXPRESS and visible reproductive equipment, and is this to reproduce or do we find it create new kinds ? To ask is to answer, and we have already answered. It is true in logic, in things vital (which are not magical because programmed, creative because procreative, or self-productive of new types of design, because animated, for animation is not creation, but a creation itself, the two are not one).

What then do we find in any area of production, where the scenario is subtlety, the means are complex and synthetic of many combined procedures to one unitary result ? Do we find that science, thwarted CANNOT find what is happening and so wonders that it does ? or is it not rather that it DOES not find what is not there, nor can it find the means for it to do what it is not doing, and that in the case of many muddled methodologists, they are stuck in the mud of misnomers, wanting desperately to EXPLAIN the non-empirical and to SHOW how the non-evidenced proceeds.

We do not however logically look for such results in any form which incorporates the material, be it the product of man, or of the Producer of man, or any other. That is not how our SYSTEM is found to act. Explanation of its omissions, showing the reasons for its non-events is the nearest to insanity that this generation gets; and yet it is a spiritual obfuscation which so derails logic, deviates from scientific method and ignores the obvious. There are things that are done, and not done, grounds required for the former, but this not to be confused with the latter. The model and mode of logic is not non-causative but to the profligate, meanly and miserably demanding.

This is of course a combination of experience, that you have to have what it takes to produce what takes it, and of logic: what possesses these intimate, conceptually expressible correlations and sequences with a unitary result, by means of command structures is not to be found operating on its own. You have to DO it! The stuff that already does it, like one's own body and mind, this is derived from another design like it. It does not come immune to design: it is a propagated progeny by means internal to the design. Its designs are conscious, its modes are logically coherent, its work is in the mind, before in the visible.

What however of diverse designs, and especially those which do not arrive by procreation from existing other designs ? They have their kinds. They operate within them.

Does then one KIND create the other ? It would the most amazing reversal of ALL knowledge if it did, in experiential and experimental terms, as in verifiable ones (cf. TMR Ch. 1). Rationally, it is absurd (cf. *6 above).

What then in the case in hand before our eyes ? Is the equipment for it present and observable in action ? Far from it. Does it DO it somehow, without derivation by reproductive means ? Far from it: for new information is not found to arise, according to that domain of  information science,  but rather does the existing stock of designs diminish - except of course intelligence is at work.

The simple cell ? Is it a question of the simple beginning slowly becoming something else in assignable steps and stages, with vast mountains of failures, examinable in terms of the frustrated quest (to use figurative language such as evolutionists tend to do, without ground and contrary to all ground, since what they conceive is contrary to the logic which is back of all conception): these are of course to be found ? some would muse. It must be so:  for how otherwise would such a theory as organic evolutionism arise, in good odour, according to scientific method ?

Yet specifically NO such cells are found as Denton insists, NO junior models of the simplistic, NO transitional stages, NO modes on the way. The way is as open as the day: as with creation, these cells of life, THEY ARE THERE! That is all there is to it, sophisticated in kind, un-intermediate in procedure, classical in conception, artistic in elegant enterprise by observation. What then ? Is it really so that they do not painstaking ... arise ? What would you expect ? magic ? a maestro production from NOTHING of the order of magnitude in kind, evidenced in the quality of the product ? Is there then no evidence at all of such gradations on the way up, in cells ?

Alas, but no. Scientific method here as so often in this field, is abused. The thing in view, the theory, the clamant claims they are  not in good odour, and the theory arises for other reasons therefore.

But let us consider the creation a little more (for a design implies a creation, once you required to recognise it, unless you can show how and why the design arises from some other design, or from what is not a design, which of course is never done, imagination only excepted).

There are multi-purpose parts in some designs in nature, where parallel sub-parts are utilised in different ways, as noted above in 'deliberative design'. There are different ways of securing different functions, like sight, whether vastly complex and effective even at 'early' stages  or not, or whether in octopus, bird or Cambrian trilobite,. Indeed, it is so whether in the superb insect case of the dragon fly, or in the artfully designed fly equipment, which gives it such brilliant powers of manoeuvre and anticipation of punitive action!

There even appear to be alternative devices

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for guidance, such as bat-radar, whale sonar or the whole order and array of only slowly being discovered means, which enables birds to fly thousands of miles out, and then with accuracy,
back to the same garden from which they left, in migration exercises! (cf. SMR p. 143),
 

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for aerial mobility, such as feathering techniques in meeting wind resistance or thrust,
all most subtle and contrived as to design definition, or
 

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for navigational skills. with lobed fins, diverse tails and designs in them, different forms and shapes, modes and marvels.

There is no limit by necessity, for as out of air, the shapes arise, the fluid dynamics, the mobility criteria, the modes of organic integration, al thrust into being, not by any necessity to exist, any more than there is any for some new comic in the newspapers, but by the inventive thrust of the Creator. NOTHING is never the reason, for it has nothing to give; and what is the reason for creation's masterpiece in kind and capacity, in myriadfold profusion and brilliance of endless innovation, is precisely creativity, where the criteria match the product, as in all logical discipline.

The case is highly diversified in its coverage.

Thus, there are similar variabilities in hearing, whether through vibration direct or via organs, or receptors of bouncing radar parallels, and for motion, whether through lithe athletic prowess, in quadrupeds, with major physical adroitness of mind, limb, muscle and nerve direction, just as there is agile intelligence, at various levels, and imagination for that module. It all comes in the uttermost departure from limited modes, bounding into being at various levels with one thing in common: the conceptual realism of motion, or sight, or hearing, or address, or guidance, and the executive skill in variable designs in different ways acting with vast skill in various peaks, thrusting into being with tireless ingenuity, whether for wing, foot, trunk, tail or other implement, fashioned into power, each functional in its intricacies, a marvel of wisdom in its construction and of integration in its malleability by mind, instinct or program as the case may be.

As in many designs, the capacity to adapt is delimited - your car can utilise certain features in stability control, fitted to it, if so be, and so react differently to a curve than another might, your hand may become calloused through manual work, according to programmatic design and designation for the case, your mind may become apt and instructed, indeed, at the early stages of infancy, your very neurones may be linked according to the requirements you place upon them, this way instead of that, we are told. Yes, it is so: designs may allow for the challenge of events in LIMITED ways, according to the KIND in view. But empirically, this is not to incorporate design, but designation. It is part of the product's performance criteria. Thus is the case in things mechanical and vital alike. Design is the case, the designed is the result, and its criteria vary according to the initial input, in the teeming challenges of experience.

The flush and rush of designs and the keeping of kind is all one feature in the domain of creativity and capacity, whether the progammatic is the model, the mechanical, whether the ingredients be light or life, muscular or mental: ground, reason, cause, construction, production, performance within these canons, this is the way that is found. Whether the creation be from this body or that, from this source or that, at this level or that, profound or puny, this is the way that things proceed, logic requires and verification provides for; and herein lies validity, for reason is not dismissed, and then used to rationalise later: but it remains always in operation.

Creation, with its creativity behind it, how profound are its ways, and how necessary it is to receive the data available, in constructing understanding, instead of inveighing against them.

In all this, there is the uttermost departure from limited methodology, or stark simplicity of performance or type; for indeed it is as if there is a glory in design, as Gould came near to realising, a prodigy of creation, an amazing ready-made differential in KINDS, and an almost blindingly overwhelming myriadfold explosion into being, differentials manifest and in mighty working, like a jewel form the hand of the jeweller, pre-set in its setting: but this is vastly more complex and demanding.

Acute contrariety of method can be found, in this or that approach to a function in view, or there may appear streamlined multi-purpose deployment of a given type of organ or method. It is as in the realm of imagination and intellect, where they gloriously intertwine, a combination of economy and abundance, artistic grandeur and simplicity, conceptual sublimity and simplicity, moved out for the overall purpose in view. But ONE of these creations is not a merger operation; in commerce this requires, as in all else, intelligence and skill, whether with programmatic aid or not. The product calls for the cause correlative, the conditions which produce, not their contradiction.

Far from necessity as the grinding call, there is in sight a brilliance of sheer creative abundance through  the liberal anointing of matter with mind and the maximal appointment of design with imagination in the heights of summitry. No call for such beings arises ...

To call a millionaire a pauper would be a kindness compared with the mischief of ignoring the criteria of creation and calling it 'need'. There is nothing needy here in scope; and if there is profound wisdom in the handling of many problems, and if there be many devices, yet it is their sheer vigour and vision, all but unlimited scope and invention, calling into being what is not there and solving its ways simultaneously, that is the actual criterion of actuality.

So far is the attestation of undispersable integrality, irreducible complexity, multi-system synthesis, linguistic unity of command, to create the next generation via DNA and its companions, with febrile brilliance of modes of inter-relations, whether through diverse, but fully operational phases of growth with installed modes of nurture - as with mosquitoes phase by phase arrival into adulthood, or those staggering ones of salamanders, where pause can come, or even it seems reversal/ It all ...  arrives all so variously, even to the whale, with its submarine suckling, and with mutual diversities, as where use is made of the male and female mutual specialisations, useless apart, or social grouping for the completion of the generational task.

Here in the interstices of command, which institutes the next phase of the creation, egg or embryo, or the next stage for the next phase, for they have their own internal sequences, at any one point, what is to be found ? It is this, that there is one language rigorously imposed for the multitude of diversely sequenced but intimately cognate combinations.

Indeed, in this, it is just as with many authors: they prefer their native tongue in creation of novels or plays. Here, in physical life's internal commands, we find no other - and the LORD Himself did not suffer a Babel, but is ONE and remains so, using in our life systems throughout all time and diversity, one mode of speech, one operational language of ordering, appointing and making it happen from generation to generation.

Ignoring the data has become a cultural practice, and in it there is a certain ruinous recklessness,  many clinging in their desires for 'chance', a mere name for system without purposive intervention (cf. Ancient Words, Modern Deeds Chs.   9,   13). It does nothing to make anything happen, being merely to indicate that things proceed per the nature of the case. What IS however the nature of the case! If someone is blind, then 'chance' in the sense of events not purposely controlled in the system or systems, synthetic or otherwise, in view, may bring about death by accident. It may not however raise the corpse from the dead. That is not part of the system. SOMEONE outside the system, or not confined to it, may indeed do so, but then this is not 'chance' but its precise opposite, the intrusion of purpose into the existing system.

Biblically this is the way the wicked ask for their lives (Psalm 1), being like the 'chaff' which the wind blows! but with the people of God, it is not so, for He KNOWS their path, is ready to act as He desires, by CHOICE.

Calling on the inept and empty idol of 'chance', man proceeds in his ancient mischiefs of mind and heart, as if to mock explicitly the desire  not to impose too much on an imaginary system, severely delimited in its ways, yet which is treated as if equipped with virtually infinite capacities, NEVER FOUND! It is totally alien to the concept, both rigorous in mode, complex in performance and all but illimitable in modes of always working synthesis of the diverse, to secure the unitary, both internally, and externally, for unit purpose.

Here is the paradigm of creation, of design, of conception, of intelligence, of imagination, and of nothing contrary. The more you probe, the more phases and facets appear, disciplined to this notation, this mode, this reality, the whole  empirically stark, and leading to the imploding or exploding of false theorems and theories as this or that non-adequate mode is imagined, and thrust upon a base inept for the product, the production and the realm of creation. Using such funereal tools, what is found ? The reality is that unintelligent creation never to the most minute degree, however stirred and thrust on by human intelligence, responds with a whisper of self-improvement grabbing itself and being graded upward into other fields (cf. TMR Ch. 1, SMR Chs. 1, 2, The gods of naturalism have no go!).

Where intelligence makes its progress, moreover, in human or other affairs, that is precisely what creationism attests; together with the fact, as in Biblical Creationism, at the uttermost and institutive level, in the whole scope of living creatures in kind: there is NONE OF IT HAPPENING NOW. Thus, for scientists in one school of science to try to imagine the stuff we have, to have produced itself is both contra-empirical, alogical and evidence of that callow use of imagination without assimilation to realities abroad, which is the work of fiction. Many like it. It is not the stuff, however, of science, but a relief from it, when this world is left for something quite other, a rest from rigour, like comics. Like comics, however, taking this seriously is comical! A good laugh and a sound lead, however, in science as in many forms of human endeavour, need to be distinguished ...

Our concern here however is precisely NOT for something, some world quite other, but for quiet realisation about the one we have. Otherwise, it is not science but nescience which probes, ignores, and day-dreams in its self-imposed stultification.

 Yet let us look further at what is before us in fact.

From the astounding, mathematically operative forms and means of relationship of matter and physical energy, covered, controlled, erected like a skyscraper of arranged floors of superior view or agency - quarks, electrons, protons, neutrons, atoms, molecules, compounds, laws of association and dissociation, dispositions of matter - crystalline, amorphous, in dynamic equilibrium as to action and reaction, or static: there is a ground floor with its various basements.

Thus is life, with its authoritative commands found inseparable from its very existence, its designs (as defined) components as far from the subordinate rigours of matter as anything programmed could be. There are its scintillating diversities of operation, varied but effective, directively different, floated to a different thought level, field agency, functionality of imagination; there are its different but effective modes of gaining an objective, divorced from the basics as a mind from a pen; yet for all that, there are the phases and platform of kindred operations, ready to be groomed into bundles of meaning, suddenly operative, never to be found in process, as is to be expected, unless operational! Larva, pupa, adult, in whatever diversity of highly imaginative forms, with whatever formulae, equipped with information, programmatic in much, they proceed and act, being so made.

It all matches like a good tartan, each feature pointing to the work of the weaver.

There is the single cell, the multi-cellular world, each phase sophisticated and synthetic of phases and inner worlds, yet this moving to myriad functional units, the whole inter-relational, but not as closely as are organs, and capable of purpose thrust and collision, harmony or even sacrifice to an end. We have moved from building blocks to organised and delimited builders; but these also, first need to be built, so that they can build; and build they do, with their imaginations, when they get these are their equipment of life for living.

Yet except by intelligence, what they build is not more and better units, like themselves, except by generative devices specific to that end and part of their own design at the outset in the generationally observable situation, but types of behaviour deploying their facilities.

Instincts are granted, limited forms of imagination and purpose, as with the fox, cunning or loyalty appearing, as with the dog, and at this height also, all but unutterable brilliances are cast forth with a liberality like that of a pearl merchant, scattering freely his pearls. There is no economy in scope and modality, no striving; it is all accomplishment, except in the imagination of man, which also appears as ready made, and which invents in two ways, making what he will to the extent of his capacity, with what he has, or pretending with the same prowess, either on purpose for his children, or in war, against reality as he knows it to be, or even  against his Maker.

There go the birds, in their maxi-kinetic flight, notable not only the sheer speed in hundreds of miles an hour in some cases, but in the frolicsome flush of sheer enterprise and celerity, leaving the grey-hound gaping as they flit through small spaces, folding the wings to fit, at 30 or more miles per hour, or tilting the speedometer to perhaps 400 mph in long flight, yet rarely with collision in confined spaces, and ready in exotic fun to manoeuvre with forthcoming complexities of flight, as seen sometimes indeed in vast social groupings, which can move, with hundreds of birds, in vast celestial ballets, attaching, despatching groups, ascending, descending, with a grace that is like music.

Vast is the provision; a thing of wonder the precision; graceful is the gliding, magnificent the speed! It is all abundance and efficiency in vast measure, some at less marvellous heights merely emphasising the workings of others who peak by the thousand in their diverse antics, whether for mating, migrating or the sheer frolicsome wonder of pageant and the agendas of exuberance.

There are the keen eyes, guidance ingenuities, migration patterns past the research of man, as is so much for it regales us with wisdom and astonishes with wit, so that as with the very spider's web, it becomes a veritable standard of reference of direct usage because of its eminent features. Bone itself is reputedly stronger than steel, weight for weight.

Then there is the mind in its native liberties, analytical, coherent in thought, as is the body in its commanded operations as it is spawned or borne into new generations, or served in maintenance by a diversity of defence and functional complexities that being automated, astonish the intelligence of man who has to contrive with his own constructed bases, and so comes to admire that already done with such exuberant panache, multiplied means and inveterate creativity.

The mind is not subject as is the body in many of its operations, both institutional and functional, to automatic command, to the mere mode of control of such entities as DNA; but it is bound to the laws of logic as its effective milieu, from which to blunder, or to move by irrational fantasy and desire, is at least partial dysfunction. That misuse of mind, part of the liberty of man, of course, is precisely what we have often shown to be the case with organic evolutionism (cf. The gods of naturalism have no go!). Such misuse of mind can be by subtle ambition, seditious intent, vulgar appetite, deceitful design, or wanton flourish of obstinacy, for the capacities of the human spirit are large: but it can be.

As to the human mind, this illustrates its specialised modes of liberty; but in its felicities of mental motion, in some ways like the physical ones of the birds in their aerial antics and designs, it is not by any means limited to mere error. It has canons to keep; but man may elect to violate these.

Thus, moving beyond all this, there is the realm of operation of the human spirit, able to survey all the  above, as we have just done, to will to fight it, blight it, bless it, understand or in some cases, wilfully to misunderstand it (cf. SMR pp.  332Gff.). It may use or misuse mind, at will, to a very substantial degree, hence helping the patient numbers for the psychiatrist, for the laws though breachable, are not because invisible, inoperative. Lady Macbeth, could she speak, could well confirm, prior to her mental decease!

Here is yet more of that complex, featured but unified focussing power in the design, which now equipped with a second degree of liberty, can will to use mind or body aright, or not!

The issue, then, is not the diversity per se, though this has its own vast input for logical thought, leading to creation. Biblical creationists note it in regarding such domains as that of the human eye and the natural implants in their setting that others use in the realm of sight, for each and all, the means of vision there and not arising, all deposited without testimony of progressivism. This is the expansiveness of mode and the fixity of operation, bound together like twins.

But further,  it is not at all as if one marvel invented the next, or some moronic basement cast forth wisdom as if it belonged where it is not even named or known!

The question now however is first this: are there consistent, coherent stages whereby each grade and phase, both in general and in special terms, has left any indubitable trail  or showing of such gradational things ? Is there a museum for failures ? is there a fleet of the unsecured ?

Is there the sure-footed track of sequence in time and place, from electron to the conception of electron, and the will to direct electrons by understanding them with minds, also set up in modes traceable as to generative equipment and means ?

In car terms, do we have the grounds, observable entities, generative systems to produce Jaguars from Volkswagens, or from Mercedes, granted there are different degrees of similarity ? The similarity is relatively irrelevant, however, since there has to be the BRIDGING MEANS, in the case of cars, educated human intelligence, resources for manufacture and capacity to analyse. This is not transferable, but the programs may be used this way or that, or set in place or not, as we are so often reminded, for example, by the phrase 'Intel within'! That is the work of programmatics consigned to a situation constructed to receive it. One design can thus allow for another to be correlative with it, all BY design. These things do not arise in auto-transitions, any more than does Shakespeare's Hamlet slowly turn into Macbeth, as the need for more strength is found ... by whom ?

It is not different in PRINCIPLE and in LOGICAL requirement in any field, mental or spiritual, material or conscious. Whether it be DNA or atomic structure, you need what GENERATES it, can be shown to do so, has the potency assignable and demonstrable to achieve it, and can be seen in various verificatory exercises to be it, as this and that aspect or phase of the function presented for the task is tested. However there is neither form nor function, there is neither equipment nor factory, there is neither visible method to check nor anything to verify. It is like the frog in the Disney cartoon,  who, unearthed from a building site every few centuries as new construction work comes, and the old is removed, and puts on a top show.

Amazed the contractor envisages much money to be made from such a performing frog dug up in his excavations; but when the matter, indeed the FROG is TESTED before the theatrical management, it says 'Croak, Croak!' in the most dismal and listless manner. It does not REALLY have it. It does not in fact have what it takes, despite the animated imagination/hope of the contractor.

It is the imagination which has it; and while it can certainly perform, the frog, in the field of imagination not its own, yet in the realm of nature, it cannot. The theoretical contractor is doomed to disappointment. His high hopes are not met. His roving thought is not vindicated; his ideas are not verified. It does not tap dance after all, its creativity is not of this Broadway, top hat and tapping toes type. Its song is gone. Its time is over. Imagine what you will, you cannot make it happen.

Such is the sad case, empirically, with organic evolutionism, always from millenium to millenium, in this form or that, to this degree or that, being unearthed, but always a flop (cf.  Spiritual Refreshings Ch. 13, TMR Ch. 1). Reality cannot so readily be circumvented (cf. Repent or Perish Ch. 7).

It is past, what happened; and it is logically derivable, what was its minimum.

The evidence for this history of contrivance GENERATION, and the means to it, is not there. As in SMR, and TMR (esp. and systematically, Ch. 1), it lacks. The highly  diverse suggested scenarios even in terms of reason,  ex-means (cf. Wake... Chs. 4-6), are given without the discipline of evidence or logic, so that despite imaginations roving, the reality shows how clearly it is not! Imagined paths come into presentation mode, like trial errors, where a subject is not understood, and a student flounders, having forgotten the actual rationale. These imaginary scenarios for life and its background, they come adventurously diverse, as if playful ploys, yet presented in seriousness, as if from the compulsive gambler, ever hoping, looking remotely for the finding of something, but on a downhill path because of his system, wrong and constrained to be so.

While Gould has specified the external body of living things in their explosive Cambrian invasion of what he deems a most early phase of history, leaving a limping decimation of the design glut so early presented, for the future till now, Denton specifies the micro-worlds as in non-alignment with sequential requirements in gradual theories of origin, while emphasising no less the parallel for the situation of the grosser creation. Non-alignment, non-verification, non-continuity, this is his song in Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, and in this he is by no means wrong. So it is. Nothing fits, as indeed  it could not fit, for it is not fit for reason's demands, and so cannot fit the empirical world either.

It does not work, such a conception, whether by febrile imagination, actual verification, cohesion of logical methods or evidence of generative methods. As to creation, the mode of institution of what we are and our universe, our habitat, the Bible declares it has stopped; and it is right. It WILL not go! It is there in kind and command, in laws and scenario, and it moves not at all by the imagination of man, this way or that.

The refusal to find what mind did for matter, what spirit did with mind, in looking at what matter cannot do, and ignoring the world of matter for its own genesis: it is mere unreason, and a waste of time, leading to the submergence of fascinating topics for investigation, in the metaphysical meanders of anti-religious passion.

For creation, there is no other option, call it religious or not. What is so sacred about man, that his desires to eliminate his Maker are so to be revered ? Why is it natural to ignore not his own lean place in the scheme of things, but that comprehensive one of his Maker ? What is so prejudicial about following reason to its conclusion, scientific method to its rigours, and with both mutually operative, finding for the now dumb field of further creation, the Speaker who made it! What is wrong with demanding the cause sufficient for the result, instead of ignoring causation, and having nothing as ruler, or inadequacy as basis, or non-verification as the clincher! Is it madness that proceeds but by contradiction!

It does not work. Similarities in grades refuse to fuse. Immediate, prolific appearances of multiple creation designs have no secrets, found to be declared.

Methods can never be induced to work, whether from Miller*7A or elsewhere; and even if something did from intelligence, upgrade, it is by intelligence it does it, and that in the end,  is merely illustrating 7B the creationist case.

Yet not even this, in terms of basic design, has been done: merely snippings and replacements of DNA can happen, by surgical skill: as when a child plays with a simple device, and takes off and puts on this or that feature.

This merely emphasises the point. Nothing can make itself, merely by being itself: you need generative equipment, be it child or surgical skill.  If it is there automatically, say procreatively to bring on the next generation, then that is part of the design for continuance, and it is not the engine for advance: reproduction is not novel production, but a matter of kind.

If even this is not present, then there is even less to consider; and if imagination and conception is needed to produce more advanced design, even for a small jump, how much worse is to look to nothing! Nothing as a basis is a patent illusion. It  MUST deny any future to itself by BEING nothing, or it would be something distinguishable by having a future.

Hence design diversities, these are humdrum. They abound, this is part of the testimony of unconstrained creation. Lobed fins can be seen in operation, forgetful of any imagined walking power; and non-articulated skeletal parts lack land-based drive. That is what is reported, and it is like the report of a pea-shooter. In relevant terms, it signifies nothing.

What is so novel when another specimen has lobed fins already, and operates in fishy fashion! Is there not something fishy and wishy-washy about this insistence on what does not work as a basis for the view or belief that it would work, and because it is imagined to have worked, that is how something happened. If the Coelacanth has not changed in so long, what is the point ? Did the trend lose its thrust, have a nervous-breakdown ? If it does not show evidence of using this device for walking, why guess when present data are about!

They came. They were there, so the currently modish  geological time scale declares. ONE fountain pen MUST have a rationally construable source; yet millions of designs need none! Is this the statistical wonder, where all thought ceases, then! This is the romantic fallacy, that if it is big enough, you need not worry about how! It is like the Wheat Board scandal in Australia. Make it some hundreds of millions, and it is really too large to worry about ... But in fact, this is not the case: that like all else, requires rational investigation and the ascertainment of adequate causes to explain every phase and feature of every item.

Shrugging the statistical shoulders does nothing to alter the arithmetic. What we have is merely another specimen of creative artistry in producing one of the milling millions of designs on the one hand, and the creative but misled artistry of imagination, which dismisses facts, and dreams as if life itself depended on it. It does, but in the mind of God, not of man. It does, but where power to create operates, not where irrational review is the criterion. You can imagine the painter at work, but no painter, no picture. When he stops, then do not expect any more of his paintings. They will not change, except by wear and tear, or chicancery in art dealers, who by intelligence seek to intervene and 'create' new products for dishonest sale.

Alas, it is death which depends on dreams when life calls! Such luxuries are not to be used in the relationship with reality. In organic evolutionism and its peers, the case does not change: Nothing fits, nothing works, and how could it where what is needed is excised as a preliminary part of the practice of suppression.

Horror has seized the procrastinators of knowledge, fudge factors themselves are embarrassed by their abuse: the world stays the same, stasis in graded kinds settles like a blue sky in the heavens, creation that at which it flops: for it cannot and does not rise without it, and its creativity in imagining the contrary is like a seized engine! The means of motion are no longer present and operative. Neither nostalgia nor financial stringency will invent it anew, nor will it have new designs to present, as it rusts: it is the same in every field, you get the production only when the producer is operative, and his domain must be that to which the product relates.

Meanwhile as to this world,  its appointment, creation is not removed by hoping it will rain creative power from somewhere or other, provided it does not have to be recognised! The masterpiece of institution theoretically by fashion, now proceeds by what in creation, it  precisely both lacks and evinces. It proceeds by the imagination of man; but in so doing, it lacks the power to cause to come, as is the liability of mere imagination, something more useful when it has means to hand!

As to man, he evinces the meta-creative need, in his own imagination, both his body and his mind testimony to creation, and the latter creative as well, yet not equipped to perform what instituted it, or to make to 'arise'  his own self, either in action, or in theory. Assuming it done, is the nature of organic evolution: this is fine in geometrical theorems, but not in engineering practice. You still have to DO IT!

Man, then, has some of this imaginative power, but has far from enough to institute such as himself, or for the creation of the universe. He is now, in the secular camp, almost frantic about conserving the harmony and purity he cannot make. Greens seem black with sadness at the sight of the slippage of designs into death or rarity. It is actually significant, for though this may be to make man more lonely, yet the Creator Himself has the power to do far more than this!

A journeyman with universes is man, and even with himself; in these fields, he is no creator. He is surrounding himself in secularity of concept; but he forgets it, and tries to tell us the truth even when he thus imagines himself immersed in relativities which have no absolute, so absolutely exempting himself from the very power to know, in order to tell. This tongue-flapping, enemy of a thousand, if not a million class-rooms, is a sound signifying nothing, but achieving much in the way of muddle. Evolutionism is gone, its buttresses have fallen: who can bemoan her ! (cf. TMR Chs. I, 7, 8, SMR Chs. 1, 2, The gods of naturalism have no go!).

Man cannot even create life, far less human-type life in some novel phase, equipped with his own freedom (cf. It Bubbles ... Ch. 9, Little Things Ch. 5, Licence for Liberty, SMR pp. 348ff.). He cannot do this despite the millions of designs, the multitudes of methods of procedure and the single language displayed in all candour before his open eyes. With the modes of procedure available for inspection, he still does not as yet even imitate them, like a clever dog! Even with his logos-inspired mind, with creative power phased in, indeed even through his spirit with imagination invested, one granted for purpose and understanding: he is left bereft in his quest, for he can do nothing but snip and stir.

HE did not do it. He merely evinces its scope!

What is needed is not man's vast abilities, small in comparison with the task,

but relevant as an example:

but those of the source of logic, of power, of authority, of command, the creator who having created the universe, does so no more;

of the One who, having created the stage, is not concerned with another, but with the actors, agents and history of it.

It was vast; so is its significance. Ignoring Him, is mere chagrin, shame and wantonry of spirit. It does not make the ground and basis of creation, but only a gap in man, without the filling and fulfilling of which, man is not meaningless, though he may feel it: but a mean thing, ready for ruin.

This advances like an army, as well it might. This and that crisis in astronomy or biology is routinely announced. Staggering stupours are not uncommon. The rule of irrationality and scientistic substitution for empirical reality proceeds: and its name is wander-lust, its state, stupefaction, its spirit, desperation and its results zero.

 

 CAVALIER DISREGARD OF CONDITIONS

Logic does not invent itself: man can never invent himself; neither can man effectively breach it - any more than does matter evince power to be raise itself to the mind, to be received as a fellow, nor does mind surpass itself to provide the new gift of spirit, to choose what to receive, or whether to deceive.

Some "force" does not "raise" it (*3A, *6, *7B), for to do it is not a matter of imparting acceleration to matter, but the wholly disparate dynamics of intrinsic splendour of distinct systematic and operational kind, coming from immaterial and undelimited entity, to enlist material force, to give visible form. We do something similar in KIND but not in scope or ultimacy, continually, and I am doing it now. I could stop, then my particular style would go. The spiritual entity who made our creation could stop, and DID so, as is seen continually; and at that, His particular way is not seen in action at that institutive level. What then is required for such action as is now stopped in the macro-case ?

This means*6 imagination, purpose, ingenuity, wisdom, comprehensive, over-riding capacity, immateriality beyond imposed limits which matter has as a design, and eternity, since delimitation to time requires the agency for such, to require it; but we study the irreducible minimum sufficiency for causation. Temporality itself is its offshoot, and with it, patience and delay, for here is system, and multiple-interactive-system, consequence of what is itself not so delimited, without which in eternity, imposition would be unavailable, system aloof and being without ground. Without this, nothing ever! However, I for one, am not nothing ever, and my reader, he or she is another...

Nor are there many systems circling (circling! how delimited!), or squabbling around (squabbling ? how delimited and devised), or THERE: for whence the systems, the 'space' of whatever kind for their interaction, mental for conceptual relationship, material for substantive interaction! Nor does nothing in various stages arrive on scene to actuate a new part of the required result from its voluminous concatenations and progressivist loungings. Stage or in one page, it is all one: the source is there or not, and there altogether or not, and seeking to divide your non-existent battalions in order to make a better front for the army that is not there, alters nothing! Nothing it is and nothing it remains; but as to us, we are here.

Nothing but an adequacy always can ever produce multi-systems, or last! What HE has is what is the minimum requisite for what has been done; and whatever more His word declares. He has not left raw war in His creation for its delusive means of lying, or scandal, being in need of no excitement and knowing the end from the first, His own Being comprehensively unlimited; nor does inward inadequacy form thoughts of evil, for such would itself involve that He is delimited by forces which drive Him, and the One who did that, it is then He who would be God.

God gives in creation, and liberty gives law, for man, and scope for most unspiritual war, when he becomes moved to evil, either to incite it or to invite it or to kindle it.

This carnal corrosion of His creation is a necessary open door, and richly possible consequence of liberty without which love cannot be, nor intrinsic meaning. Nor is the divine word to secure the remedy, which other than ruin alone awaits man and his universe, hard to find. Nothing else but the Bible has made itself DIRECTLY and CONTINUALLY testable by invitation (Isaiah 41, 43, 48); and nothing but His word could have secured the extraordinary result of being unfalsifiable for millenia, while making predictions millenia ahead, always verified, and vindicated (cf. SMR Ch. 1, 8-9); nor has any but the focus of the entire Bible, Jesus Christ, followed and fulfilled all the specifications for deity as man, that He did; nor could any. The matter sits in place immovable, competition zero, self-manifestation of truth, indefeasible.

Yet man, though heeding over time by the millions, does not heed by the billions: the way is narrow, as is any truth when it is KNOWN, and few find it (Matthew 7), though many more rest on their own works, as an entry permit or visa to the presence eternally of God, and will be disappointed as Christ declared, for when God creates, either the image of man, in its deposition, as a painting comes from an artists, or the salvation of the same, when it is despoiled, having the touch of infinity in dealing with infirmity of spirit, there is no question of co-operation! That would be an arrogancy in theme, all but inconceivable. Hence we read with relish the fact: "BY GRACE, you are saved persons, through faith, and that is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God," (Ephesians 2:8). The Greek requires the meaning, "that whole thing", that is being saved by grace through faith! It also provides the concept, "having been saved persons", in its grammatical form used.

It is all so distinct, from salvation to redemption, institution to restitution: of God.

This in the very face of God's divine love and costly provision for mercy with neither justice nor truth left wounded, and His provision of His eternal word as Saviour in the very form of man's flesh, the despatch, the disregard or disdaining  of this reality is not a matter of mere neglect. Instead, it becomes a cardinal irresponsibility; and as with endless sun-tanning in today's ultra-violet quota, it has what finally will be apt to present ineffaceable results. Moreover, while some may withstand much sun, none can withstand God; and He does not kill truth in order to secure salvation, but meets it as He IS the truth, and meets it in two ways.

One is to bear its impact for those who receive His salvation, repenting of the cause, sin, and the other is to bring on justice, where mercy, being neglected, cannot apply. This He does, then resurrected, He declares and declaims mortality covered, immortality provided and truth triumphant. Thus is the way of the Prince of Life, who is not only Creator, but King in majesty, surveyor in spirit and deviser of the paths for man (Psalm 1). Lovely as the flower in its ultimate beauties, adorned with perfumes all but unspeakable in delight and evocation, He yet and indeed as with loveliness of often, leaves what drops wantonly from His gifts and graces, like flowers fallen.

The very scope of the plan of salvation is on the nether side, the deadiliness of excluding its operation.

Freedom has its cost. God is beyond it, but it is not beyond Him. In the end, man has only one way out; and if he flouts it, he has none left.

 

THE IMPRIMATUR OF CORRUPTION

In fact, the animated and adventurous antics of adventuring man, into whom so much has been poured in creation, and for redemption, would be admirable, like those of a forward toddler, were it not for the irrational fever, the arrogant princeliness often mixed with graceless disdain for his own divine  Creator, whose plan, process and payment for redemption he has, in the main, spurned*7.

While reason riots at its treatment, and philosophy tries every mode of mangling it, and fails since its own attack is immediately invalidated when reason is assailed: yet this same God-given reason remains, an integral resource from the Lord, irrevocably leading to the revelation of His word (SMR Chs. 1, 3, 5,  10, at the outset, and Chs. 2, 8-9, at the onset; and Repent or Perish Ch. 9, *1A).

As man thus strays, increasing the scope of his wayward oscillations, reverence spasms, truth is scorned, the divine remedy disrelished, while man himself exercises that great field of his: sin that structures its castle, seduces its victim and seeks to identify with him. It moves in him to create princely pride in himself and his race, his littleness and his enmity, his aspirations and his computations, so that he is found lapsing out of control, like an abandoned space ship (Luke 19:10, Matthew .

In this case, there is the vehicle for delivery, but immune in his poisoned soul, by his own estimation, he remains lost as a profession! The Son of man came to seek and to save that which is lost, and here is the satisfaction of pity, the crown of mercy, that it is still available*8A.

Man in his lostness is a great grief, but even that is divinely predictable, and has been predicted, specified in advance*8B both as to principle and procedure (Matthew 24, Luke 19, II Thessalonians 2, II Timothy 3, I Timothy 4, II Peter 2; John 3:16,19,36, Revelation 6-9, 13, 17-19), reality and remedy. Thus the word of God, the Bible not only specified its identikit for Christ (cf. SMR Ch. 8), when He should come and what He would do and who He would be (Micah 5:1-3, Hosea 13:14, Ezekiel 34, Psalm 2,22, 16 for example - cf. Joyful Jottings 22-25), for faith to use its eyes, but the method of salvation (Isaiah 52-54), for knowledge to realise its target, and the result, for the spirit to respond to its home (Isaiah 55).

Christ was deliberately, then, and in detail identified by the prophets, against the day of His arrival. That was then. This is now. Present also is the identikit for the end of the Age (cf. Answers to Questions Ch. 5), which is now almost to the last detail, fulfilled; and its pattern and ways are similarly articulated with care, and found by observation in this, our hastening world, which moves more and more rapidly as if desiring to quit its job, being afflicted and pillaged.

By no means is this empty-headed calumny of the treatment of this world and of himself in it, by man; indeed, it is as the scriptures above declare, and many of their grounds for judgment, man has now managed to 'invent' in his spoliation both of his environment and his own spirit. Indeed, there now proceeds and proliferates an empty-headed and chronic calumny of Christ, of His word and of His redemption, yes distortion of it and endeavours to subjugate it to this or that religious procedure, in sects almost innumerable proceeds as if flies gathered about a feast (cf. News 121, 122, and Sects in Index).

Man's intelligence, design, imagination and spirit are now being abused to assail his Creator and His word, misusing His name when it is not being abused and His word deviously twisted (cf. Paul in II Corinthians 4, 11), and this mature-age revolt is being brought rapidly to a judgment irreversible and assured; for to REJECT the REMEDY is to REQUIRE the RESULT of such rejection. Seek to drown the only life-saver and you are in deep water indeed!

The orchestra of truth has completed its introductory overture; the curtain trembles, and it is near to the moment when it falls.

 

CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

How credulous and simplistic is man without God! He can be cunning to make billions, courageous to rout armies, ruthless to kill millions as several have managed to do in the last century alone, yet so impishly ludicrous in his thought, that he can even try to justify such prodigies of folly by his evolutionary emphases, his inveterate confusions and his asinine aspirations to rule all, be all and owe nothing, while receiving his very own soul, spirit and articulated equipment of ultra-genius, that human body, itself so integrated with the powers of his mind, and the soaring of his spirit. Here, in man, is a device, designable, integrable, assessable, requiring more than human thought, the very hinges of its triad being themselves a masterpiece of unification, and his programmatics a staggering universe of command designations, always requiring the voice of power, wisdom and imagination mixed.

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that originally originative conceptions are to be evacuated
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that the micro-biological commands are to come from no mind, and
 

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that the multi-disciplinary consequences from no understanding,
 

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that the systems innumerable which intimately relate and correlate,  site in or spawn
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is as scientific as imagining that a fountain pen arrived, given time, by the concourse of atoms:

except this is all but infinitely more in violation of scientific method than even that would be.

Do you have something in a suitable substance for holding, with a nib of suitable dimension for utility, with an ink-pouch of suitable size for a reasonable resurgence of thought to be inscribed on paper, with the holder fitted neatly and even astutely in its dimpling, for fingers, and its durability suitable for the type of usage which reason requires in the case of man: a fountain pen in short; and then wonder if the waves produced it, or space ?

You do not. This sort of extraneous, disarticulated, disingenuous attribution to matter of what it is NEVER found to do, by observation, in its realm which NEVER is found to SHOW the power to do it, but inveterately the power to prevent it, nor to possess the ability to exhibit the rationale of such power if it did, would be the folly of the unduly sustained, in their more humorous decadence or desultory dreams. Science looks for the SORT of power or law or procedure where it IS to be found, and hypothesises accordingly. It looks for the SUFFICIENT cause, not the total absence of this, first, logically, then empirically and thirdly in terms of verificatory attestation.

It does not chew its cud and say, Pens ? ah yes, probably engineered by non-engineering, composed by non-understanding, and arriving and sustained in their precision and pristine usability by some kind of gurgle, never seen you know, in matter! It does not say, Given time, of course we shall have fountain pens. It looks for the operative and effective means, the minimal causation for such a consequence, given the second law of dynamics, or if you prefer, the spoliation procedures to be endured if one is even to sustain, far less make, such an object. It does not ask the stars, or the seas... It has attestations nearer at home.

The thought of man is not visible. It moves matter, shapes it, conceives it, arranges it, but has no colour or shape, is not geometrically measurable, spatially constrained or categorically traceable; nor yet is visible the love of man, whether to create or to desecrate, to embrace his family or his concepts. Results assuredly flow where matter or mind or spirit is to be found for the impartation from the realm of the invisible in man; but no material action of thoughtless specks of slaving stuff make the liberty of man.

Such origins neither show themselves, nor could. They are inadequate in realm, in system, in conception and in coverage (cf. SMR pp.  316Dff., It Bubbles... Ch. 9, Little Things Ch. , Licence for Liberty). They confuse means with design, reduce purpose to event, as if a cake were said to be eggs, flour and sugar, which indeed it contains, but which await the purpose of the cook before the crea