Opus 2025-043: Created vs Modified

While watching the Joe Rogan interview with Stephen Mayer,  I noticed that Rogan continually asked that same question about, “What if...?”  One of the things that comes to my mind as I think about that is that you can’t know when real genius will step into the scientific process.  We tend to confuse genuine genius with a bit of talent.

The difference can be summed up in different words.  I tried to figure out a couple and the best I could come up with was created versus modified.  I tried thinking of creating with different adjectives, but it wasn’t startling enough so I went with these two.

Most of the things that we consider to be new inventions are really just extensions of what already exists.  They are evolutional modifications.  For instance someone invents the refrigerator.  Now that is in the realm of genius but after the genius has done its work, the innovators start to evolve things.  They say if you can make things cold maybe you can freeze things, and the freezer is born.  Then someone says why not have the freezing compartment at the top of the refrigerator.  Another says let’s put it at the bottom.  Someone in a burst real creativity says, “Well let’s put them side-by-side.”  Someone else says let’s make them different colors.  These are evolutionary concepts at best.  They are not creativity.

Somewhere I read that Hugh Ross came to Christ because after studying the usual round of religions he came to the conclusion that the only one that had concepts impossible for the ancient human mind to produce was the one explained in the Bible.  I don’t think he was talking about creation itself.  It involved concepts that only an astrophysicist would notice.  It worked for him.

I love to speculate with “What if...”  At the same time I don’t let it replace truth and knowledge.  Let your imagination go wild but don’t assume you can turn off gravity.

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