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\"handwritingThe theory of evolution, which involves a “big bang” in the “beginning” and an intelligent design forming out of a completely unconscious state is so childish that it is on the level of a three-year-old – says Patrick Carpen.<\/em><\/p>\n

To put it into perspective, let me tell you a little story. When I was three years old, my dad and three uncles were all university lecturers and writers. Sometimes, I would pick up my dad’s notebooks and look at the pages and pages of beautiful cursive handwriting and wonder what was written there. The words had a pattern and form, and even though I could not read it at that time, I knew it told a story and made sense.<\/p>\n

I wanted to write stories like that, so I would take a pen and paper and make lines and markings hoping it would make sense and tell a story. Then I would give it to my dad and ask him if it made sense. But it never did. All that was produced, no matter how many times I tried, was a bunch of meaningless scribbles all over the paper.<\/p>\n

Then one day, I found an old notebook left by one of my uncles in the bottom drawer of the chest of drawers. It had pages and pages of the same beautiful cursive handwriting. I picked it up and ran to my dad and gave it to them. “Dad,” I said, “Look, I was just scribbling, please see if it makes sense and tells a story.”<\/p>\n

My dad took the book, looked at it, looked at me, smiled, and said with utmost certainty, “no, you couldn’t have written this.”<\/p>\n

His confidence in saying that made me realize that I couldn’t insist further.<\/p>\n

Looking back at it now, I realize how childish it was to think that “random and accidental” markings on a paper would tell an intelligent story. But I had consciousness, and a little intelligence too! Yet, I couldn’t have designed something intelligent by accident even if I tried.<\/p>\n

And that’s just how childish the theory of evolution is! To think that a bunch of matter, with no consciousness, moving about randomly, would accidentally collide into each other and form the intelligent design we see in life today – that’s on the level of a three-year old – or worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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