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Terwyl ons die 100ste herdenking van die berugte Scopes Monkey Trial (10 – 21 Julie 1925) in Dayton, Tennessee, nader, is ek gevra om kommentaar te lewer tydens ‘n gesamentlike vergadering van die Suidelike Psigiatriese Vereniging en Tennessee Psigiatriese Vereniging oor die gebeure soos dit uitgebeeld is in die 1960-film Inherit the Wind. Hieronder is die aantekeninge wat ek vir daardie geleentheid voorberei het. (Ongelukkig kon ek weens tydsbeperkings nie my voorbereide kommentaar by die geleentheid aanbied nie, maar wil dit hier met u deel).


 

In sy laaste openbare onderhoud, wat hy in 1996 gegee het, het die vooraanstaande wetenskaplike en sterrekundige Carl Sagan die volgende gesê:

Ons het ‘n samelewing oor wetenskap en tegnologie georganiseer waarin niemand iets van wetenskap en tegnologie verstaan nie, en hierdie ontvlambare mengsel van onkunde en mag gaan vroeër of later in ons gesigte opblaas. Ek bedoel, wie bestuur die wetenskap en tegnologie in ‘n demokrasie as die mense niks daarvan weet nie? Wetenskap is meer as ‘n liggaam van kennis, dit is ‘n manier van dink. As ons nie skeptiese vrae kan vra en diegene kan ondervra wat vir ons sê dat iets waar is nie, as ons nie skepties mag wees oor diegene in gesag nie, dan is ons die teiken vir die volgende kwaksalwer politieke of godsdienstige leier wat aangeslenter kom. Dit is ‘n ding waarop Jefferson groot klem lê. Dit was nie genoeg om sekere regte in die Grondwet en die Handves van Regte vas te lê nie, die mense moes opgevoed word en hulle moet hul skeptisisme en hul opvoeding beoefen. Andersins bestuur ons nie die regering nie, die regering bestuur ons (https://www.openculture.com/2015/05/carl-sagan-issues-a-warning-in-his-last-interview-1996.html, klem myne).

Ek dink ons sien dit vandag – ‘n gebrek aan skeptisisme, ‘n gebrek aan opgevoede ondersoek, ‘n gebrek aan ‘n werklik wetenskaplike manier van dink, en dus ‘n onverdraagsaamheid vir eerlike bevraagtekening.

Ek moedig u aan om skepties te wees, om krities te wees oor wat ek in reaksie op hierdie film gaan aanbied, want Inherit the Wind is gefokus op die groot vrae wat menslike beskawings deur die hele opgetekende geskiedenis oorheers het – die groot bestaansvrae: Waar kom ons vandaan? Hoekom is ons hier? En waarheen gaan ons?

Die Duitse psigiater Karl Jaspers het in sy boek Way to Wisdom geskryf: “Dit waaraan jy vashou, waarop jy jou bestaan plaas, dit is waarlik jou God” (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951).

Die vraag waar ons vandaan kom, was die onderwerp van groot debat dwarsdeur die menslike geskiedenis, en die fliek beeld die twee mees algemene mitiese geloofstelsels uit wat beskawings deur die opgetekende geskiedenis oorheers het, geloofstelsels wat mense gebou het en gekies het om hul bestaan op te plaas. Daar is ‘n derde geloofstelsel, die minderheidsverslag, wat ek later sal beskryf. Maar die twee mees algemene stelsels wat deur die geskiedenis beide mities en akkuraat in die fliek uitgebeeld word, is:

Die geloof in goddeloosheid op een of ander manier – natuuraanbidding, antieke Keltiese priesters, gnostisisme, mistisisme, humanisme, ateïsme, wetenskaplikheid, neo-Darwinisme en die laat 18de-eeuse skrikbewind in Frankryk, met hul aanbidding van die godin van die rede.

Die geloof in die god-koning – ‘n almagtige godheid en kosmiese keiserlike diktator wat reëls opmaak en dit met eksterne strawwe afdwing. In hierdie mitiese geloofstelsel is die gode die bron van pyn, lyding en dood wat aan mense toegedien word. Die gode het ook offers van verskillende soorte nodig om hulle toorn te paai. Hierdie gode is geskep na die beeld van die mense wat hulle aanbid en dis wat gelei het tot die god-mens oortuigings, soos die goddelikheid van die Farao’s, Keisers, pouse en die goddelike reg van konings.

Ons vind ‘n klassieke voorbeeld van hierdie mitiese godheid in die berugte heidense god Baäl uit die 9de eeu vC. Hierdie Mesopotamiese god was die een wat gekonfronteer is in die beroemde Bybelverhaal van Elia wat vuur uit die hemel neergeroep het. Baäl was die seun van El, ons hoor die naam eggo van hierdie naam in Elohim of El Shaddai; Baäl is die almagtige genoem, die god van die hemel, weerlig, donderweer en weerstoestande, die god wat die oes gebring het, die god wat teen die groot slang Leviatan geveg het, die god wat teen Mot, die god van die dood, geveg het. In sy stryd teen Mot het Baäl gesterf en weer opgestaan om lewe in die land te bring.

Maar Baäl was ‘n outoritêre, reëlafdwingende en straffende god. Baäl was ‘n god wat ongehoorsaamheid gestraf het en vereis het dat offerandes gebring moet word om sy toorn te paai en guns of seëninge te verdien. Baäl het uiteindelik Zeus geword vir die Grieke, Jupiter vir die Romeine, Thor vir die Noorse volk – en, ja, Jesus Christus vir Christene, wat ‘n god-koning aanbid wat reëls opmaak soos mense opmaak, mag gebruik om reëloortreders te straf, en die bloed van ‘n menslike offer benodig om sy toorn te laat bedaar sodat hy ons nie sal doodmaak nie. Dit is die mitologiese godheid wat deur die sogenaamde Christendom in Inherit the Wind uitgebeeld word.

Ja, die fliek het ‘n goeie werk gedoen om ‘n teateruitbeelding te skep van hierdie twee mitiese geloofstelsels wat heen en weer deur die menslike geskiedenis gesukkel het.

Maar die fliek het ook nie daarin geslaag om die minderheidssiening in die menslike geskiedenis uit te beeld nie, ‘n siening wat albei hierdie sienings verwerp en die mees wetenskaplike, bewysgebaseerde begrip van die werklikheid is wat die groot vrae beantwoord.

En dit is die begrip dat die werklikheid nie gebou is op opgemaakte reëls wat wesens implementeer en wat eksterne afdwinging vereis deur middel van straf nie – in plaas daarvan is die werklikheid gebou op ontwerpwette, die vaste wette van fisika, wiskunde, die wette van gesondheid en die wette wat die gesonde werking van ons gedagtes en verhoudings beheer. ‘n Mens kan nie gesondheid ervaar terwyl jy die wette van gesondheid oortree nie. Hierdie wette is die wette waarop die kosmos gebou is om te werk; dit is vaste wette en kan nie deur menslike wil of keuse verander word nie. Mense kan byvoorbeeld wette aanvaar om dagga wettig te maak, maar hulle kan nie wette aanvaar om dit as gesond vir gebruik te maak nie.

Hier is ‘n paar voorbeelde van ontwerpreg – die wette waarop die werklikheid werk:

  • Die wet van inspanning: Krag kom van oefening – gebruik dit of verloor dit – nie net fisies nie, maar ook neurologies. As jy sterk musiekvaardigheid wil hê, moet jy jou instrument oefen; sterk wiskundige vermoë, jy moet probleme uitwerk; sterk taalvaardighede, jy moet die taal praat.
  • Die wet van liefde: Die beginsel van gee waarop die lewe gebou is om te werk; bv.
    • Ons gee CO2 aan die plante, en hulle gee suurstof aan ons.
    • Die watersiklus (oseane > wolke > reën > riviere > oseane).
    • Alle lewende organismes gee as hulle aanhou lewe.
  • Die wet van aanbidding: Ons word neurobiologies en karakterologies verander om te word soos dit wat ons bewonder, aanbid en tyd spandeer om te kyk en te assimileer. In psigiatrie noem ons dit modellering.
  • Die wet van vryheid: Liefde, vertroue en menslike ontwikkeling floreer slegs in ‘n atmosfeer van vryheid. Dwang van die gewete vernietig altyd liefde en vertroue, hits rebellie aan en lei tot die vernietiging van individualiteit. Dit is ‘n kernbeginsel van ontwerpreg wat deur die opstellers van die Grondwet erken word as ‘n onvervreembare reg wat deur ons Skepper geskenk is.

En wat onthul die wetenskap en bewyse oor die mees rasionele, logiese, bewysgebaseerde geloofstelsel?

Lewe, in enige vorm wat ons dit verstaan, vereis drie elemente: fisiese materie, energie en bruikbare gekodeerde data of inligting, wat in DNA en RNA voorkom. Terwyl teorieë oor die goddelose oorsprong van die fisiese materie en die energie volop is, is daar geen toevallige krag wat inligting kodeer nie. En daar is geen lewende organisme sonder gekodeerde inligting nie.

Charles Darwin het ‘n redenasiebeginsel gedefinieer wat gebruik moet word wanneer ‘n mens probeer om gebeure wat in die verre verlede plaasgevind het, te verklaar: Vera Causa – wat sê: Jy moet iets postuleer as ‘n oorsaak wat bekend is dat dit die mag het om die betrokke effek te veroorsaak.

Die betrokke effek is georganiseerde, gekodeerde inligting wat in die DNA en RNA van elke lewende organisme voorkom. Wat is die bekende oorsaak van georganiseerde inligting? Die enigste bekende oorsaak is ‘n intelligensie!

En die wetenskap toon dat ‘n intelligensie die oorsaak is vir die gekodeerde inligting in ons DNA en nie willekeurige kragte en toeval nie. Hoekom? Omdat die aantal nie-funksionele volgordes van DNA in so ‘n groot mate groter is as dié wat funksioneel is dat dit wiskundig onmoontlik is vir funksionele kode om homself te vorm.

Wiskundiges noem dit die probleem van kombinatoriese analise; die laaste ding wat jy in sagtewarekode wil hê, is om ewekansige veranderinge in die nulle en een in te voer. As jy dit doen, sal jy betekenislose rangskikkings kry lank voor funksionele kode. Die rede is dat daar soveel meer maniere is om verkeerd te gaan as wat daar is om funksie te skep. As jy lukraak kode verander, is jy oorweldigend meer geneig om brabbeltaal te skep as funksionele betekenisvolle kode.

Wiskundiges het die skaarsheid van funksionele tot nie-funksionele ewekansige rangskikkings bereken in ‘n redelik klein proteïen wat uit slegs 150 aminosure bestaan. Die funksionele tot nie-funksionele ewekansige rangskikking van kodes is 1 funksionele resultaat tot 10 tot die 77ste mag nie-funksionele resultate (Douglas Epps, Cambridge Mathematicus). Om dit in konteks te plaas, is daar slegs 10 tot die 65ste atome in die Melkwegstelsel; dus sou ‘n ewekansige soektog na ‘n nuwe funksionele volgorde wees soos om na een enkele atoom in een triljoen sterrestelsels so groot soos ons Melkweg te soek. Selfs vier biljoen jaar se lewensgeskiedenis is nie genoeg tyd om ‘n soekprobleem van daardie omvang op te los nie. Verder is daar slegs 10 tot die 40ste organismes in die geskiedenis van die planeet en nie genoeg replikasiegebeurtenisse om ‘n ruimte van 10 tot die 77ste groot te deursoek nie. Dit is oorweldigend meer waarskynlik dat die hipotese dat ewekansige gebeure tot die voorkoms van betekenisvolle kode gelei het, vals is as wat dit waar is. Weereens, daardie lae waarskynlikheid is net vir een proteïen van 150 aminosure en een proteïen alleen is nie funksionele lewe nie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDSpLBNQk5I).

Ons kan die bewyse van ander elemente in die bronmateriaal van die twee groot filosofieë ondersoek.

Darwin se beroemde vinke – met al die verskillende snawels – word aangebied as bewys van ewekansige mutasies wat geselekteer word deur verbeterde oorlewing oor miljoene jare. Maar die wetenskap het hierdie hipotese vals bewys. Trouens, die veranderinge in die vinke se snawels is epigenetiese modifikasies wat in een tot twee generasies voorkom as gevolg van omgewingsdruk. Daar kom geen geenmutasies voor nie. Met ander woorde, die genetiese inligting om die snawels te verander, was reeds in die DNA gekodeer. Dit was omgewingsdruk wat veroorsaak het dat die gene ‘n produk, ‘n snawel, verander het wat by die behoefte van die lewende organisme pas.

Verbasend genoeg is Darwin se vinke ‘n bewys van intelligente oorsprong, nie goddelose oorsprong nie, en bevestig die Bybel se standpunt dat ons keuses en ervarings drie tot vier geslagte oorgedra word, wat presies is wat epigenetiese wetenskap vir ons sê gebeur met epigenetiese modifikasies.[1]

Die Bybelse rekord is in ooreenstemming met genetiese wetenskap op ten minste drie ander maniere:

  1. Jakob doen iets vreemds wanneer hy met Laban onderhandel vir betaling vir sy werk. Hy onderhandel dat al die gevlekte, gespikkelde en gestreepte skape en bokke na hom toe sal gaan en al die eenkleurige pelsdiere Laban s’n sal wees. Dan sê die Bybel: “Jakob het egter vars afgekapte takke van populier-, amandel- en plataanbome geneem en wit strepe daarop gemaak deur die bas af te skil en die wit binneste hout van die takke bloot te lê. Toe het hy die geskilde takke in al die waterbakke gesit, sodat hulle reg voor die kuddes sou wees wanneer hulle kom drink het. Toe die kuddes warm was en kom drink het, het hulle voor die takke gepaar. En hulle het kleintjies gebaar wat gestreep of gespikkeld of gevlek was” (Genesis 30:37-39). Dit is nou gedokumenteer om ‘n epigenetiese modifikasie van die agouti-geen deur metilering te veroorsaak (Backon, Joshua, “Jacob and the Spotted Sheep: The Role of Prenatale Nutrition on Epigenetics of Fur Color.” Biologie. 2008. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Jacob-and-the-Spotted-Sheep%3A-The-Role-of-Prenatal-Backon/194ef71dd0af81f87cebdeda41ac64a85bc44a74).
  2. Die Bybel sê dat God eers die man gemaak het en die weefsel van die man geneem het om ‘n vrou te maak. Dit is in stryd met enigiets wat in die antieke wêreld waarneembaar is, want natuurlik word alle babas, manlik en vroulik, uit vrouens gebore. Tog weet ons met die moderne wetenskap dat ‘n vrou nie ‘n man kan produseer nie omdat ‘n vrou nie die genetiese materiaal, gekodeerde inligting in die Y-chromosoom, besit wat nodig is om ‘n man te produseer nie. Maar ‘n man kan ‘n vrou produseer, want om ‘n vrou te wees, benodig slegs een X-chromosoom om aktief in elke sel te wees.
  3. Genetiese entropie: Goddelose evolusionêre teorie leer dat willekeurige mutasies met die menslike genoom plaasvind en mettertyd deur natuurlike seleksie veroorsaak dat die spesie vorder en ontwikkel. Maar moderne genetiese wetenskap dokumenteer dat die teenoorgestelde gebeur. Met elke generasie is daar duisend nuwe skadelike geenmutasies – en daar is nie een mutasie geïdentifiseer wat genetiese inligting byvoeg of die spesie gesonder of meer robuust maak nie. Met ander woorde, in ooreenstemming met die tweede wet van termodinamika, verval die menslike spesie stadig, dit ontwikkel nie. Dit is wat die Genesis-verslag gesê het sou gebeur as mense vertroue met God verbreek – dat lewe stadig sou verval en sterf.

So Inherit the Wind demonstreer die valsheid van twee mitiese geloofstelsels: goddeloosheid en die god-koning. Maar daar is ‘n minderheidssiening wat, glo ek, die werklikheid is, en dit is die geloof in ‘n intelligente, welwillende ontwerper wie se wette ontwerpwette is – nie opgelegde reëls nie – die wette wat die lewe self ontwerp is om op te bestaan en te werk. En om in ooreenstemming met hierdie wette te wees, sal gesondheid tot gevolg hê.

Ek nooi u uit om die minderheidsverslag te omhels – die geloof in ‘n welwillende ontwerper wie se wette die protokolle is waarop die werklikheid bestaan en werk.

Hier is nog ‘n video wat verdere wetenskap verskaf wat die irrasionaliteit van die goddelose oorsprong van lewe openbaar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCBHNDTEgWk


[1] Abzhanov, Arhat, Meredith Protas, B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant, Clifford J. Tabin (3 September 2004). “Bmp4 en morfologiese variasie van snawels in Darwin se vinke”. Wetenskap(VSA: AAAS)305 (5689): 1462–1465. doi:ISSN 0036-8075. OCLC 1644869. PMID 15353802, besoek op 2008-03-08.

 Abzhanov, Arhat, Winston P. Kuo, Christine Hartmann, B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant en Clifford J. Tabin (3 Augustus 2006). “Die calmodulienweg en evolusie van langwerpige snawelmorfologie in Darwin se vinke”. Nature (VK: Nature Publishing Group) 442 (7102): 563–567. doi:10.1038/nature04843. ISSN 0028-0836. OCLC 1586310. PMID 16885984. Besoek op 2008-03-08.

 

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Testimony 52

Your unique way in spreading the truth is what we all need today. Most of us don’t recognize the contamination coming from all the lies and selfishness in the world. Because of our fear of death, we forgot how to live. Lies left and right. I was losing hope and faith, because of so many ideas that are always contradicting each other – so many questions answered by other, more complicated, questions – until I found your channel on YouTube.

You did not just give me answers, you also taught me how to answer new questions that arise in my mind. Now I see things differently. I see God’s mercy, grace, and Love everywhere, in spite of all the chaos that we all have done as humans. I don’t fear death anymore. Accepting the Truth and Love about God is truly a genuine Freedom from all the confusions, sufferings, selfishness, pain, and death.

I just wanted to say, thank you, sooooo much for revealing the real Remedy for our infected life. I have a new hope and now see the world in a different perspective!

Wheinny P., University Place, WA, USA

 

Testimony 2

I continue to enjoy your lessons every week. The more that I research your conclusions, the more I am convinced that the Holy Spirit has lead you to distill out the essence of human redemption. Thank you for your courageous stand for the truth.

S. G., TX, USA

 

Testimony 31

It was very touching to hear the testimony of your class share how viewing God’s true character has changed their lives. My feelings are the same – there is so much freedom in knowing that God LOVES me – regardless of my… just, REGARDLESS! I’m still blown away by the true gospel, the fact that God is not ready to strike us when we fail. He is not arbitrary. He simply loves us and warns of the natural consequences because He can’t stand to see us suffer. I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS GOD!!!

Ceil V.,  UT, USA