Evolution is our only explanation
There are millions of us who marvel at the mysteries and wonders of the universe without resorting to inventing a god to explain what we don’t understand. We don’t propose a soul separate from matter: They are one.
For example, have you ever observed the personality change of a person before and after traumatic brain injury? The person just disappears. You realize that a personality or soul is totally dependent on the health of the substance, much like computer software is dependent on hardware: no hardware, no software.
With regard to the question of God vs. evolution to explain life’s diversity, evolution is the only explanation for existing data. If you resort to the “God did it” argument, you surrender reason and are left with preposterous questions: Why did God create 350,000 species of beetles? Who created 10 billion types of viruses, many which use the human body for its sex organ? Why create a blind spot by forcing the optic nerve through the eye? Why have 99 percent of God’s creatures gone extinct?
Did God have a twisted sense of humor? Did He not know what he was doing? Or is evolution just the best explanation for life’s creatures?
HUNTLEY DAVIS JR.