John Griswold
1 min readDec 26, 2020

--

That’s pretty harsh, and a little opaque too;) In the silly clock analogy the parts are obviously created by a person, assembled by a person too. No doubt a nearly infinite period of “stirring the parts in a bucket” could indeed cause them to find their places and reassemble (a million years isn’t an eyeblink of time) but the self assembly properties of chemicals is so common and ongoing that it bears no resemblance to the careful, intentional manufacture and assembly of the watch. The why and how of chemical bonding is a matter of physics. If it pleases or comforts someone to imagine that a creator is necessary to create the particles, atoms, molecules and physical properties involved then, as an old friend would say, “whatever blows your skirt up”. If a person can not imagine how such processes could come to be without deistic intervention then that seems to me to be a lack of imagination.

--

--

John Griswold
John Griswold

Written by John Griswold

Master carpenter, watercolor artist and beat up old jock…owned by Black Lab Bo who considers two tennis balls a minimum mouthful

No responses yet