Okay all you out there, convince me. I was brought up Christian, recently looked at Islam but now questioning everything. If we have evidence of man's ancestors found at various places on earth how does this equate with religious doctrine? (Adam). I wonder about complexity of our bodys evolving over long time but....?
First note the obvious fact that freedom is real and relevant in the universe. That things can turn out alternative ways, that they do not happen of neccessity.
Having accepted that freedom is real, then it becomes to be a question of how things are decided.
Choosing works as follows, the first decision constrains the next decision: When you choose to go on a holiday in Aruba, and you arrive there, then you will have the option to go to beach. So it means first you decide something, then you have possibilities available around what you have already decided.
Considering what this means for the first decisions by which the universe is created, nothing has been chosen yet, it means the universe can start out fully formed with planets, stars, organisms and all, in a poof. But after these decisions are made, then possibilities around what has already been chosen are more likely.
So we have creation at once at the start of the universe.
Consider next the issue of intelligent design, which is sophisticated ways of deciding occurring in nature, such as human beings choosing. What ways are things decided in the universe in general, and specifically what way is DNA decided.
Looking at DNA shows that it is a world in it's own right. DNA can make diverse creatures such as an ant, a plant and an elephant. Looking at this enormous variety it is then more parsimonious to say DNA can represent anything, instead of saying DNA can only represent things which reproduce. So it means in principle DNA can represent an automobile, or an airplane, it can represent anything. We could put a representation of an airplaine into DNA. But of course one cannot grow an airplane from the DNA containing the representation of the airplane. That the DNA can represent any form is what it means that the DNA is a world in it's own right.
Just as like a 3D computersimulation is a world in it's own right. You can put anything in the 3D computersimulation in principle.
So organisms have DNA and a DNA world. The DNA can be chosen as a whole, in this DNA world.
The hope is that in the future it will be possible to translate the signal from the DNA directly to a 3D computersimulation, so that you can look directly into the dna world of an organism on the computerscreen. It has already been found that DNA is excellently built as a radio send receive transmitter.
So that is some of the technical aspects of creationist science, but what is of more significance is the basic structure of creationism itself. Creationism is the only philosophy which validates both objectivity, facts, and subjectivity, opinion, into distinct categories. Other philosophies only validate one or the other. For example materialism only validates facts, postmodernism only validates opinion.
In creationism all questions about what it is that makes a decision turn out the way it does are categorically subjective, and all questions about the way the decision turns out are categorically objective. These categories never cross over into each other. So with creationism you can exactly describe how the earth is created, and you can also express your opinion that the earth is beautiful.
