Definition:
Every effect must have a sufficient reason.
The Law of Sufficient Reason states that everything must have a reason or a cause. Sir William Hamilton, a Scottish meta-physician, (1788-1856) expressed this law as such: ”Infer nothing without ground or reason.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German philosopher who developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton said something close to this: Any contingent fact about the world must have an explanation.
Another way to put this is: A – the cause must have sufficient or enough power or influence or cause B – the effect to occur.
Evolution Position:
Vertical Evolution or Darwinism proponents claim: 1) that “life information” (DNA, RNA) arose from purposeless, unintentional, and unguided processes beginning with inorganic mud and 2) new more complex creatures are created by natural processes like natural selection, chance, and time.
Given:
All scientific laws must be compatible. Two scientific theories that are incompatible mean that one or both are wrong.
Question:
Does the Theory of Evolution conflict with this Law of Sufficient Reason? Can the Theory of Evolution be a theory?
Discussion:
If you have had children, you have used this law thousands of times. Let me give you an example. Grandfather (me) took the grandchildren to the beach. I asked them to wash all of the beach sand off before getting into the pool. I got to the pool and sand was all over the steps and in the shallow end that they were playing.
I asked them, “How did all of the sand get into the pool?” The smart one blamed the dog. These precious children understood the Law of Causality; but not so much the Law of Sufficient Reason. I saw puzzled looks when I asked them where the beach sand was.
Have you ever heard an insufficient reason for something your child had done? 
Let me ask you about the Law of Sufficient Reason in terms of Is Evolution A Theory. How did life evolved from the earth?
Can rock, sand, dirt and maybe water join together and create a one cell life form? Here are four explanations that evolutionist present on the internet:
- Maybe a hot volcanic pool. See the Scientific American article here.
- Indeed, some scientists think life appeared the moment our planet’s environment was stable enough to support it. See the Life Science article here.
- Maybe nobody know BUT, as the BBC admits, “So far nobody has managed it, but we have come a long way. See the BBC article here.
- Maybe there was more than one origin. David Deamer, a biochemist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “… we don’t necessarily claim there was just a single origin, but just an origin that didn’t happen to get blasted by giant [asteroid] impacts.” Read Mr. Deamer’s quote here.
The above are “possible” reasons for the consequent of life on earth. But nobody knows. In examining these we need to ask if the explanation presents sufficient reason.
Why can nobody explain life creation or reproduce this creation act in the laboratory? The answer my friend is the Law of Sufficient Reason.
First, science needs to present a sufficient reason (and a big reason) to explain the creation of a living cell from non-living material with all of its energy need and complexity, RNA, DNA, exterior membrane, reproduction by dividing, lipids, proteins, etc.
Secondly, science needs to present sufficient reason how new creatures are created by natural processes like natural selection, chance, and time. Note that natural processes do not provide sufficient reason, cause, or power to initiate DNA modification needed to create a new creature or species.
Is Evolution A Theory challenges you to research the cell on the internet. Here is a quick read “What is a Cell?” at Genetics Home Reference website. You should find a complex and amazing “consequent”. Does the theory of evolution provide a sufficient reason for life on planet earth?
Remember, we are talking about the Theory of Evolution being a scientific theory. No theory, including the theory of evolution can be a viable theory if it violates other scientific theories. That is a FACT.
Conflict:
Do you see the conflicts?
The first conflict is life coming from primordial soup. We know that water and earth have sufficient reason to create a mud. But nowhere in nature to we see nature having a sufficient reason to create “life information” (DNA, RNA) from non-life matter.
Second, nowhere in nature do we see natural processes providing sufficient reason, cause, or power to initiate DNA modification needed to create a new creature or species.
Conclusion:
Is Evolution a Theory? The Law of Sufficient Reason says “No” because the Theory of Evolution is incompatible with the Law of Sufficient Reason in two areas. Therefore the theory of evolution is null and void because both cannot be correct.