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Well, if you want to tell me that everything that exists today came from nothing, with no planned purpose, and somehow ended up existing the way it does today, Im hardpressed to beleive you as well. I look at the complexity of the world surrounding us just like you do everyday and beleive that "to be honest in all likelihood the probability of this happening randomly, when you stop to think about it must be close to 0." Is not beleiving that the universe and all of its complexity just somehow came about similar to beleiving that a tornado could run thru a junkyard and out pops a fully functional airplane??? (Albeit, the weather system and everything that goes into creating a tornado and then all the junk would also have to magically evolve over time) How is this not faithbased?? Your magic solution is to just more time into the equation and itll work itself out. What about complex things like blood clotting, this process is a package, it cant gradually just come about step by step unless it had an end goal in mind, no?? http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe.html
Heres a site which attempts to explain better what Im talking about. Its got links by atheists to his claims as well. I guess you can decide which side you beleive. I tend to believe in a God, and not only for the reason above, its a personal decision and not any more irrational than believing that there is 100% no chance that a God could exist.
Then again, Im coming across defensive like you said theists would....
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Good post because it brings up two of the most familar refrains from the theist camp.
1) Since the universe is so complex, how in the world could it spring out of nothing? The question of all times, but how does the introduction of a all powerful diety have any explanatory whatsoever for addressing this question. Trying to explain complexity by adding even more complexity simply gets you leads you to an infinite regress - if God created this universe, he must be even more complex, and then so where did he come from?
2) Evolution is
not random and therefore would not predict that the wind would blow togethor an airplane willy nilly out of thin air. Given enough time is possible that may happen, but the liklihood is so small as to be not relevant. Think of it this way, if you look at, say, the price of oil, it definititely exhibits violitility, but once you strip that away, oil prices exhibit a long-term upward trend. So think of those price variations around the underlying trend as being genetic random mutations, and the underlying long term trend as being those genes that are best suited to survival and therefore as being "selected" by the environment and passed on to the subsequent generations, and hence imparting a directionality to evolutionary processes.
