Lincoln, Luther, and King

Just when human arrogance has reached its height, and mankind's darkness of mind (the belief in evolution as our creator) has all but erased away any acknowledgment of the ingenious works of Jesus the true creator, science produces a new empirical observation that shocks us out of our drunken stupor with such intensity that we must again wrestle with the undeniable fact that we live in a world that was designed. In this case, it's an octopus. An octopus whose eyes are color-blind. An octopus whose eyesight isn't very sharp, even though its eyes are not "backwards" like the eyes of you reading this blog (Hmmm if you can read this blog, then "backwards" eyes must be a pretty good design, right? I'm a mechanical engineer, and my definition of a good design is a design that is functional.) But somehow, this feeble-eyed, color-blind octopus possesses a technology that the U.S. Military would pay billions to have: The ability to change shape, textu...

I think this article on trying to invent a working brain is very interesting: Click here to read the article . I enjoyed reading this article. However, my recent reading of "Signature in the Cell" by Stephen Meyer convinces me that Markram's theory (that consciousness is a product of self-organised complexity) is wishful thinking. As Meyer points out, there is a universe of difference between natural patterns and information-bearing (functionally specified) patterns. Markram would be well-served to familiarize himself with Meyer's arguments. Evolutionists have been trying for decades to explain, through naturalistic mechanisms, the origin of biological information and the brain's organization. And all such explanations fail. In my opinion they fail because they are based upon a wrong presumption (naturalism). Let's recognize the brain for what it is: the construct of a mind. The imposition of functionally relevant structure upon matter is the result of e...