Created by Ingenious Design

by Andrew S. Balian

Science Is Gradually Vindicating Genesis

God tells us in Genesis One that in "the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth." (Gen. 1:1.) God tells us He created successively plants, birds, mammals and then Man. From a Christian perspective, science every day is unintentionally and by force of evidence adding proof upon proof of these propositions.

From our perspective as Christians earnest for evangelism, all we care about is to show the compatibility of the Bible with science. Modern science, stripped of any agenda to prove God-did-it, is the most reliable to convince anyone who is a skeptic that God-did-it because then modern science was not deliberately trying to prove that God-did-it when quite unintentionally they prove God-did-it. In other words, modern science which has been committed to finding naturalistic explanations (whether rightly or wrongly as an agenda) can therefore be relied upon by honest skeptics when it reluctantly discovers evidence of divine intervention.

Big Bang: Major Vindication of the Bible

This clearly has already happened outside the life-sciences with the Big Bang. Forty years ago, Hoyle mockingly called this theory while in its infancy the 'Big Bang' because he said that any notion of a beginning of time and matter was one step removed from proving the uncaused beginner -- GOD -- as a necessary 'cause-and-effect' to explain tne Universe's origin. Thus, when the current consensus arose, best expressed by Hawking, that indeed time and matter came into existence suddenly in the Big Bang, the Bible scored a huge victory. This event as Hawking explains it exactly is compatible with the words of Genesis 1:1. For Christians and Jews, this was a major cause for celebration.

DNA: Its Amazing Characteristics Refute Any Unintelligent Origin

The next important victory on the horizon is that life sciences while they are predominantly on an agenda to confirm evolutionism by natural means (praise God!) are constantly confronted and thwarted by the characteritics of DNA. God is using their skepticism to improve the believability of their discoveries!

For example, Crick, the discoverer of DNA, even concluded that the idea DNA could evolve in the geological environment of Earth at any time is an impossible idea. It is physicall impossible! Only a miracle on Earth could create it. Those are his words. There are many scientific reasons for this, such as oxgen's presence in the atmosphere or water which in any amount is lethal to DNA unless a highly complex and lengthy-coded sequence directed formation of a protein in the cell to counter oxgen's lethal effect and this protein was present in the very first DNA. Crick confesses the extreme implausiblity of any such idea. Hence, at no point and in no place on earth could DNA ever evolve! Crick says so! Thus, Crick said the only naturalistic explanation is that DNA arose outside of earth, perhaps on another planet, and then a meteorite dropped it off.

I have a Christian response to this: His unknown god of a meterorite, to borrow one clever argument of Paul, is the God of the Bible!

Thus, we should realize that it is the best possible thing that science is predominantly controlled by the atheist or agnostic at this time. This is because as this evidence matures, and the realization sets in that the life sciences have proven the necessity of an original designer of DNA, and all its subsequent major transitional changes (by miracles of God's hand), then no one can claim this evidence was set forth by someone with an agenda to prove intelligent design.

And thus in the very same way cosmologists were forced to the Big Bang -- issuing statements entirely compatible if not identical to the statements in the Bible -- life science experts will eventually be forced to say very similar things due to discoveries on DNA.

Let's Take Dawkins' Offer

Richard Dawkins is the world's foremost defender of orthodox Darwinian evolution.

Dawkins recently said in a radio interview on NPR in 2007 and again in a video interview captured in Ben Stein's Expelled (2008) that it is a proper scientific endeavor to detect whether life originated on earth by a designer as long as we posit/assume this designer (or designers) evolved elsewhere. With that objective and that assumption, the investigation of design-features in life on earth, etc., would be a purely scientific venture. It would also fit within Darwinian theory. That theory assumes and proves, Dawkins claims, the ability to create consciousness from pure matter by means of trial and error. Thus, as long as all assumptions are materialistic, Dawkins says science can investigate intelligent design as the root cause for life on earth.

I accept Dr. Dawkins' honesty and his intention behind what some mockingly call the Alien Design Theory. As long as I vigorously assume I am investigating an alien non-terrestrial culture, and I do not ascribe to it supernatural powers to solve knotty problems of causation, I am engaging in a legitimate scientific endeavor.

Hence, I will reverse engineeer the steps involved in various puzzles to show how an ingenious design is absolutely necessary for various phenomena in Nature. I will prove they were established by an ingenious design harnessing the known laws of physics. Such a pursuit is what Dawkins concedes is legitimate, and this is what every scientist should accept as a legitimate scientific inquiry. I am not ruling out miracles can happen or that God exists. (I believe in both.) Rather, I am merely exploring what phenomena require intelligence as an explanation, but which do not require any assumption of a miracle whereby the intelligence has to be God by classical definition.

As a result, my inquiry is bounded on two sides so that it cannot be used to establish a religious belief. It does not depend on miracles, and it makes no claim about the origin of the creator. Therefore, I envision one day this theory of Ingenious Design could be legally taught in a classroom. That's my opinion as a lawyer.

The reason it can be taught is that there is no religious content in Ingenious Design theory. It can only be argued such an inquiry can scientifically confirm a belief in an intelligence elsewhere. No one can say this scientific inquiry will prove necessarily the existence of God as classicly defined.

That is not to say that a person of faith will be discouraged by such evidence. They may claim such a designer or designers revealed by this investigation could also have supernatural powers, and thus be God. But that can only be addressed in a Metaphysics classroom. Science cannot study by definition the supernatural, even if it were intelligent. That's why such discussion will not be found within the Ingenious Design movement.

I am not merely being coy and quiet about who I think is the likely designer, as the current Intelligent Design movement was found in the Dover case to represent (whether rightly or wrongly).

Instead, I am agreeing to a materialist assumption that I am investigating an alien non-terrestrial intelligence. I am personally not a materialist, but a theist. Yet, my theism is irrelevant for this investigation. Instead, I will offer theories that are purely scientific of how an intelligence must have created mechanisms or a means to manipulate matter to form, for example, the Sloan Great Wall.

The Example of the Sloan Great Wall

The Sloan Great Wall is a good illustration of what Ingenious Design represents. This structure was discovered in 1985 by Geller and Huchra while working as astrophysicists for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics.

The Sloan Great Wall is a large scale space structure 1 billion light years over our North Pole. It is made of 11,000 galaxies who individually serve as nodes in a honeycomb structure. Its overall exterior form is patterned, even in 3-D, to conform to the image of a little man with a head, two arms, a torso and two legs (known as the Homonculus).

In the chapter on the Great Wall, I will explain the origin of this structure wholly by showing that some intelligence employing the laws of physics in ingenious ways could levitate matter by electromagnetism and stabilize it to conform precisely to the Homonculus -- with every one of thousands of cells being comprised of hexagon-shaped / a honey-comb of spiral galaxies. By the same mechanism, an intelligent designer could maintain the interior structure using 11,000 galaxies where each galaxy one-by-one is fitted as nodes within thousands of hexagons. This is a feat that gravity alone could never do, but an ingenious mechanism can do, and is the only plausible and necessary explanation in Science for the Sloan Great Wall.

Thus, in the analysis of the Sloan Great Wall, I am not resorting to explaining the unknown by miracles. My explanation does not depend on the supernatural. Yet, at the same time, while I discuss this in terms of a non-terrestrial creator at least 1 billion light years from us, I am not committed to materialism philosophically. I can discuss the same facts later in Metaphysics. There I can propose non-scientific but no less truth-seeking theorems to analyze whether this intelligence is, in fact, God. But in science as I investigate the Sloan Great Wall, I find ingeniousness on a grand scale that unquestionably was intelligent but I do not rely upon miracles which science cannot gauge.

Ingenious Design by a Non-Terrestrial Intelligence

This book/webpage also seeks to establish the correct theorem to prove intelligent design. The correct theorem, I believe, is to prove simply an ingenious level of design. This is exhibited in a multitude of specific engineering marvels in our universe. If we are willing to challenge ourselves, and truly think hard, we can perceive GENIUS of an extraordinary magnitude in natural mechanisms that were not conceivably produced by trial and error or wholly unintelligent processes. This is true of DNA, fractals, protein folding, irridescence in butterfly wings, human eyesight, photosynthesis, and the Sloan Great Wall, etc., to just mention a few such phenemona. Only by employing all our greatest scientific minds to explain the engineering principles latent in biological and natural structures can we pay proper respect to the extra-terrestrial designer (or designers) that Dawkins conceded may be the proper scientific explanation for a natural phenemonon.

Hence, in this book/webpage, science is the limits of inquiry. Thus, I have no intention to prove that anything was created by a divine being. That is the next step in a study of what these conclusions mean in metaphysics and/or natural history. It is beyond the scope of our inquiry. Until we examine the science, and prove ingenious design, the issue is prematurely addressed from its metaphysical implications.

Intelligent Design Movement Must Re-Invent Itself

Intelligent design, to be truly scientific, must examine Ingenious Design of a non-terrestrial intelligence (ID-NTI) bounded by the rules of Science (i.e., no invoking of miracles as a solution). This may not please the supporters of ID as presently established. However, those ID scientists committed to science must concede ID-NTI is the only way that in science the topic can be legitimately discussed in a public classroom or in a science class. Science cannot function or be useful if it is ever permitted to resolve any difficulty by resort to a supernatural explanation. This is why trying to change the definition of Science to permit ID to invoke miracles and examine the attributes of God will never succeed.

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Latest edit: June 23, 2008