Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 498
A GAME OF CHESS OR A GAME OF CHANCE!. The conditions prevailing at the time of some of the major stages in evolution were far from favourable. It has in fact been described by John Horgan that: “. . . life evolved and survived under unpleasant and periodically even hellish-circumstances. "4. For special favourable conditions to prevail uninterrupted over an exceptionally long period of time is not by itself sufficient to evolve and fix a new character in the evolving species. Time is not a creator; it is just a neutral span, like a vast cauldron, in which any constructive or destructive interaction takes place. If different elements are shoved into a cauldron haphazardly without purpose or design, time by itself, however long, cannot organize ingredients into any meaningful product. . S. CIENTISTS who try to simulate the creative phenomenon in nature, in carefully controlled laboratory conditions, fully realize that the whole process has to be precisely monitored and guided step after step to achieve the intended purpose. Yet they are frustrated despite the fact that the entire exercise is pre-planned and consciously masterminded by highly knowledgeable scientists. Leave the laboratory at the mercy of time alone and return to it after a lapse of some fifty or more years and observe the disorder time created and the ruin to which it has led whatever it comprised. . Given time, order turns into chaos if no countermeasures are consciously designed to protect it. . William Krantz, Kevin J. Gleason and Nelson Caine in their article, Patterned Ground write: 'Order in nature would appear to be the exception, not the rule. The regularity of the solar system, the complex organization of living things and the lattice of a crystal are all transient patterns in a grand 473