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> From: Juan D. Guzman <jdguzman@ix.netcom.com>
> To: Evolution List (E-mail) <evolution@calvin.edu>
> Subject: The wonders of science.
> Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 9:32 PM
>
> I was just sitting here thinking, rare as the occasion is, and I came
upon
> something that I thought I would share with you all.
>
> Science has this wonderful way of looking at things and distinguishing
> between the natural and the made. For example when an archeologist
> stumbles upon a rock he/she will go examine the rock in several ways and
> determine if the rock is just a plain old rock, or if it is an artifact
of
> a distant civilization. Many times the conclusion is based on the fact
> that the rock has complexity that cannot be attributed to nature, this
> leads the archeologist to conclude that the rock was made by an
intellegent
> person.
>
> I find it very odd that, while it is so evident to these scientists that
> the rock had a maker, they look at living things and basically attribute
> all of living nature to chance. The complexity of nature far excedes
that
> of the rock on the ground yet this complexity came about by chance. This
> is one of the things that keeps me from embracing the theory of evolution
> in its entirety.
>
> Well I just thought that I would share that.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> J.D. Guzman
>