Dr. Kagawa Writes.

Can we say that an engine has no design when it works?

This universe is full of mechanical schemes, as all mechanical engines are designed by human brains.

This universe must have been designed by wisdom. We have many natural catastrophies and sufferings, but if we do believe in the theory of creative evolution through these calamities and sufferings, this universe is directed to have more values, and to me the theory of creative evolution is simply designed for development.

Even bacteria and diseases have their places in the variations in nature. Catabolism and metabolism in the physiological world are most wonderful phenomena. Though we may have catabolistic phenomena, we cannot ignore the wonderful preservation of health. so when people point out only the catabolistic aspect of the human body and think that there is no design in it, he is ignoring the other side of the world.

Even death has its evolution. Studying the evolution of death, we come to the amazing phenomena of sexual selection. Lower creatures have no natural death. Only highly-developed individual orgnisms test death.

Looking as a whole, evolution leads up to the human consciousness. With human consciousness we can never deny the purposeness in life. It may not be absolute purposeness in the universe, but we must allow relative purposeness in nature, and that purposeness is revealed particularly in human consciousness.

Unless there is certain law of purposeness in nature there is no chance for relative purposeness appearing in consciousness. Logically speaking, from nothing something does not come out. From blind nature relative purposeness has no chance to appear because there is certain law in consciousness in cosmo. We feel the reality of ego we must believe that there is cosmic law of ego as an engine has a design, and behind design there is a designer. This cosmic purposeness must be taken as designer of the universe.

That is my answer to those who deny the designs in nature and designers behind the design.

Toyohiko Kagawa.