Law of Cause and Effect (sometimes known as the Law of Causality) – for every effect there must be an antecedent cause.
We note that when event “B” follow event “A”, we naturally wonder if event “A” caused event “B” because we are human. An example of this is the event of rain (“A”) followed by the event (“B”) of wet grass. If we observe this with our senses each time and understand the reasons “B” follows “A” then we make the conclusion that “B” is the effect of “A”. Or that “A” caused “B”.
I love playing pool. My mental intention moves my arm that moves a stick that moves a white ball that moves colored balls from an organized triangular grouping to dispersed locations of pockets by way of physical collisions. Pool combines cause and effect with newton’s laws of motion.
How is pool related to Is Evolution A Theory you may ask?
Have you seen a pool game on television? Imagine you turned on the TV just in time to see a pool game. You see the break but the TV camera did not show the cue ball get hit. Would you say that nothing hit the cue ball? It just jumped into motion?
It is one thing to say that “nothing” caused the cue ball to move into motion; it happened by chance. It is another thing to say that there are forces moving that I cannot or did not see.
Do you see the difference between “I don’t know” and “nothing” caused it?
“I don’t know” claims a lack of knowledge. “Nothing caused it” claims total knowledge.
From the Law of Causality we know that if something is in effect, it had a cause. (Can an effect be its own cause? No!) This is true in every effect that we know. The question between causes and effects revolve around our sense perception and our reasoning. We must admit that our senses do not have perfect perception of reality. We have machines like microscopes and telescopes to heighten our senses. Even so, we cannot sense all of the unseen forces in action.
The theory of evolution is false because it is irrational with its claim that “chance” or “singularity” or “_fill in the blank____” caused the big bang. In essence, the effect, the universe, caused itself, the universe. There was a “first cause” that made the universe explode into existence. What was the first cause? It was not a mathematical probability called chance. And could not have been singularity as that is a condensed form of the effect.
The bottom line to the question Is Evolution A Theory is NO. The theory of evolution is incompatible with the Law of Cause and Effect.