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Self-awareness introduces control into creation. This may be the significance of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Whereas evolution proceeds with great freedom, once humanity became self-aware there was temptation to control its trajectory. This urge to control is known as sin.
And so we observe ideologies of control; people who seek to impose their understanding of perfection upon the world. This is sometimes known as platonification, after the philosopher Plato who argued everything is a reflection of perfect forms. We find it in the imposition of mathematical models on reality. Those Christians who insist nature has a designer are doing the same thing. Sadly, some formal ecumenical conversations have the same aim.
The material world self-organises and needs no designer. Design, whether of watches or of ideal societies (including united churches) is a result of self-awareness. It is this imposition of concepts of perfection onto the world, that we know as sin. This is because our concepts of perfection fall short of reality, miss the mark. Of course, imposition of perfection is in reality imposition of will, of a will to power, which can be seen in domestic abuse, warfare and all attempts to control others.
Design differs from evolution in its adherence to physical laws. The designer knows about the laws of thermodynamics, of gravity and various other physical constraints and uses those laws to power their machine or architecture. Life uses the same laws in different ways. Knock over a chair and it will stay where it is. Knock over a human being and they can get up under their own steam. Whilst no physical laws are broken, the motivation for life is much harder to understand than the mechanical principles of a machine or bureaucracy.
Contrary to the desire for power of creationists, chance is evidence of God, not design. Design demonstrates human intervention. What we see in nature is complexity, the interaction of chaos and order; the dynamic and the static. Complexity arises from matter's innate power to self-organise.
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