The quest for certainty

Human beings seek certainty. The trouble with this, is that there is no certainty to be had. [1]

We can see this in the area of Origins. Darwinists like to claim that Evolution isn't a theory but a fact. By this they mean that it's certain knowledge. There's only one thing wrong with this claim; it's false. When you study the subject of Origins you see a collection of uncertainties that somehow is supposed to add up to a certainty.

A partial list of the uncertainties that somehow lead to the certainty of evolution;

First of all we have the subject of the origins of matter. There is no certain knowledge of how matter was created; and many have claimed it's eternal.

We have the matter of planet formation. There is no certain knowledge of how this happened.

There is the matter of the origin of living organisms here on earth. Again there is no certainty as to how this happened. Even materialists admit they have no idea how life spontaneously emerged.

Then we have the uncertain matter of how complex organisms came into being.

Then we have the matter of how highly complex information came into being. Again there is no certain knowledge to be had.

We can skip a few points and talk about human beings. There is no certain knowledge to be had as to their origin; nor is there with respect to things like intelligence and language.

To make a long story brief, what we see is a long string of uncertainties that our school teachers and professors insist (with vehemence) add up to the certainty called evolution. This is a claim that has no warrant in reality. It's a claim that has no basis in sound thinking. You can't add a bunch of uncertainties up and get a certainty.

There is nothing wrong with saying that evolution (M2M) is a theory. Somewhere along the way our thinking (at least at the elite level) has gone seriously wrong. People insist on making claims of certainty when such things are denied to them. We don't live in such a universe. The universe we live in is one where we must live with uncertainty. (This is not really a bad thing, though it's made out to be.)

There's nothing wrong with answering basic questions by saying; ''well, here's the consensus opinion on that,'' or ''here's our best ideas on that,'' or ''here's what some people and groups think''. The educational elite has no moral right to pass off a collection of uncertainties as a certain fact. This is an abuse of their responsibility to students, and to the public.

The basic problem here, as I see it, is the collectivization of the education process by the state; by the political process and the political elite. Were it not for the complete domination of the educational process by the political elite we would not have nearly so many people telling us Evolution was a certainty. It's only because students have been brainwashed on this issue that they become such fierce defenders of evolution, and such fierce opponents of creation. They've been brainwashed, but they don't seem to mind, or to even be aware that they were. (This is how one sided their education has been.) A decentralization of the education process would lead to a more balanced approach on issues like Origins.

Unfortunately it's a tendency of human beings to claim to know more than they do, and to claim to have certain knowledge when they don't.

Notes;
1. I won't be going into mathematics in this post.