Evolution theory is more metaphysics (a branch of philosophy) than science, says PhD John Wise. This is because this worldview depends so much on the Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is a process involving contradictions and resolutions.
Wise quotes author Darren Orf who wrote in Popular Mechanics, “Scientists Found a Paradox in Evolution—and It May Become the Next Rule of Biology.” (Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2024.) Orf writes that rules and laws help us to make sense of the world–except in biology. In nature there are so many biological exceptions that so-called “rules of biology” are merely broad generalizations, not absolute facts.
So, in science there is a desire to make sense of the world by forming laws and rules. But, if there exists in nature an objective rationality which science is seeking to discover, Darwinian biology has failed to find it and has adopted materialist metaphysics instead.
Rationality implies rationality, an understanding that has been slowly occurring among evolutionary biologists as they study the evidence. Rationality isn’t just in our minds. It is also a real component of nature. But if science makes sense, nature must have been formed by and from Sense (capital S).
But Darwinism denies this by rejecting design and rationality in nature. Suggestions of design and rationality in nature are just accidental, evolutionists say, and not an actual part of nature. While the laws of physics and chemistry are invincible as demonstrated by the laws of thermodynamics, secular scientists aren’t ready to say this about biology. Nature is often full of biological exceptions.
There is a difference between “hard” sciences such as physics and chemistry and “soft” sciences such as psychology and sociology. Biology appears to be somewhere in the middle. Biologists can’t always make organic nature obey necessary laws.
Wise says the logic of Darwinian evolution is driven by contradiction (as postulated by Hegel), but always progressively onward and upward, and relying on storytelling, which helps it to account for anything and everything, even contradictions.
A new rule in biology is called “selectively advantageous instability” (SAI) which denies the assumption that life requires stability and a conservation of resources. In other words, SAI says life values instability. According to this view, SAI is essential for life. It allows for a normal gene and a gene mutation in the same cell population. It even allows a cell to have a certain consciousness.
While officially denying there is purposeful action and conscious decision making in nature, Hegelian logicians do make use of them when needed. Contradictions pop up everywhere. Construction and demolition. Death and life. “Cellular consciousness.” “Chaos theory,” which proposes that even disorder is ordered.
When Darwinian biologists run into a contradiction, they can always invent a story to resolve the problem.
Comment: The scientific method tries to resolve contradictions through observation and testing. It appears now that some secular biologists welcome contradictions or, at least, regard them as part of the process. For instance, they completely ignore all the evidence for divine design which could solve their contradictions.
But there is organization in nature, and organization is the opposite of chaos. Normally, when we plant a seed and provide it with fertilizer and water, we expect it to grow. We can predict sunrises, sunsets, eclipses, and moon phases because there is organization in the solar system. We pretty well know what foods will do for us, good or bad, when we consume them. If the laws of nature constantly contradict themselves, we would be in trouble.
But God is the ultimate Organizer, the ultimate Sense who helps us understand the world.
Jesus has completed the first part of an organized plan for our salvation by dying for our sins. The second part, our departure to heaven, still lies in the future, But Jesus has promised to take all believers there with him.
“In my Father’s house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that you may also be where I am.” John 14:2-3.
by Warren Krug
Reference: John Wise, “Why Darwinism Is Fundamentally Irrational,” Creation Evolution Headlines (May 8, 2025).
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