Life Sciences, Evolution, Theoria of Determinism and Fundamental Cosmological Questions

Evolution indoctrinated life scientists do not generally have a cosmological perspective on determinism and chance from what I encounter reading their works. They tend to make a randomized natural selection paradigm assumption without a general awareness of the determinism/indeterminism theory issues and how they pertain to bioscience and the evolution criterion.

I believe that much of the somewhat myopic bias for indeterminism in evolution arose in the dialectical political and intellectual argument with ecclesiastical authorities of the enlightenment era. Their natural assumption is that random chance and natural selection is a necessary contradiction of the sole opposite opinion found within a particular kind of religious, sectarianist opinion upon genesis matters.

As intellectual discovery advances and enlightens humanity so far as the relative veracity of knowledge permits, it is useful to increase the social, historical, philosophical an Biblical data base in light of scientific concerns as well as science. Scientists may labor under mistaken ideas about intellectual areas beyond their window on the world that is a biological Weltanschauung.

In reading the New Testament of the Bible there is virtually nothing that directly contradicts scientific data, and the Old Testament-which is the Old Testament after all, itself may be interpreted in several ways such that it is neither in contradiction move to particular evolutionary concepts. The knowledge of the Old Testament is very special, and must be treated with respect and regarded as truth if one wishes to relate it to what is known through careful scientific thought about the world, of life and of the cosmos.

A point I recently drew from comparing Old Testament paradigmata to that of life sciences is that of the ages of the ante-diluvian patriarchs. First, Eve succumbed to the temptations and misdirection of Satan in the Garden of Utopian environmental health and recommended to Adam that they alter the nature of the environment through development—that is they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Mankind today continues to mess with what was a healthy natural ecosystem and affect it badly exterminating countless life forms. To move beyond the original sin of not leaving the environment alone when everything was absolutely perfect.

Adam and Eve in the Garden were assumed to have infinite life spans without aging or even the phenomena of birth. Cast out of that metaphysical Eden and pre-determined to alter the ecosystem and in fact become a natural part of it, Adam and Eve and their descendents had increasingly shorter life spans. Leaving a virus and stress free environment they were reduced from multi-thousand year life spans to just a hundred or so, then of course the average life span of humanity would in the non-Biblical world be reduced to just 20 to 30 years.

Modern man has increased his average life span four fold in the last two hundred years nearly reaching age 80 in developed countries. Like Robert Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long, he has his sights set on two or three thousand years. The fiction write Khouri in the Sanctuary offered an opinion that some believe human life span isn’t pre-set to an end, but achieves death mostly through stress and illness.

Perhaps nature may not have had time to evolve a necessary end to human life, but instead specialized upon achieving reproduction instead, yet at any rate the Biblical and the contemporary scientific paradigms on aging have a kind of interesting symmetry.

There are numerous other symmetries of paradigm between the Biblical world and the scientifically created worldview, and it is also known that the scientific worldview is incomplete and just a slice of the possible philosophical pieces of the facts of universal existence for itself.

Life scientists tend not to factor in even gravity theory into their ideas about evolution. It isn’t that evolution is wrong; it is simply that it presents a limited set of data. One may consider quantum cosmology simultaneously with all of the life science’s evolution criteria for example and find determinism rather that random evolution in virtually everything living.

Given the boundary conditions of the early Universe that may be known only proximally (in the last 13.7 billion years), it is easy to regard everything material that followed the inflation of the Universe (or whatever process actually occurred) as determined from those initial allocations of resources. It is popular enough to say that their was no design in evolution, yet the structure of everything in the beginning inevitably pre-determined the nature of everything later including the development of life on Earth and perhaps elsewhere.

The emergence of matter over anti-matter by the smallest fraction provided a Universe of matter in the particular locations it has. The clumping of matter is generally associated with the WMAP imaging of early universe structure. Where galaxies would form, how gravity would condense mass, was determined in the beginning. In fact all of life forming on planets is a continuing necessary evolution of the original design or allocation of resources.

Life tends to form from the smaller stages to the large on planets. Matter also formed from the most simple, hot and basic structures toward the larger, cooler and more complex, yet none of that is by random chance, but instead follows the laws of physics with inexorable logic. Though it may be difficult to imagine, the evolution of each living thing was determined by the environment and interaction as the boundary conditions permitted. Only Eve in the Garden had the opportunity to do anything different and to alter nature against the inexorable function of the laws of physics through the supervention of human intelligence.

Not to accentuate the power of human thought over much, although God said in the Garden that Adam and Eve had become as little goods and must be subject too temporal conditions in order to limit their power, comprehending the freedom of though within a determined physical cosmos is one of the interesting contemporary scientific as well as classical philosophical and religious questions.