mr.gold wrote:Hmmm...As a real live scientist let's see if I have got this right....
There was a Big Bang that just happened oh...about 15 thousand million years ago...by chance. (One thousand million is equal to one American billion. But it takes a million millions to equal one British billion. So I write my numbers as thus...)
400,000 years after that event, the Big Bang, light happened...by chance.
This energy coagulated to the elemental particles...by chance.
The elemental particles formed into elemental Hydrogen...by chance.
The Hydrogen was clumped into heavier clouds until the gravitational fields spawned nuclear furnaces, the first stars...by chance.
The stars, not to bore you with the details of the Carbon threshold, created the lighter elements...by chance.
Second generation stars were created and then third generation stars were created, thus creating the heavier elements...by chance.
Anyway, some 11 thousand million years ago in a galaxy near and dear to me, our very own Milky Way, an accretion disk formed about a cloud of gas to create a third generation star...by chance.
On the planet, formed in the third gravitational trough outward from the star, oceans were created...by chance.
In the reducing atomsphere of this newly formed planet a lightning bolt struck a pond that was rich in complex amino acids...by chance.
Somehow, some way, and not a scientist whom I have spoken with has a real clue as to how this trick was pulled off, ribonucleic acid (RNA) and, because of the reducing atmosphere, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), were synthesized...by chance.
Then somehow, by methods that we haven't dreamed of, this DNA and RNA combined with other chemicals to make the first primordial self replicating cellular life forms...by chance.
Some of these cellular life forms organized themselves into worms, simple digestive tracts...by chance.
The worms evolved to more complex and more organized life forms (Which just happens to be a violation of the thermodynamic laws of enthalpy-entropy)...by chance.
Somehow the reducing atmosphere turned into an oxygenating atmosphere...by chance.
Thus the evolution of the creatures of the Earth occured...symbiosis between plant and animal life...minor organisms to complex organisms...Darwinian selection...ordered...not chaotic...by chance (Isn't chance a form of random chaos?) That in itself is contradictory. But for argument's sake I'll concede it.
Then 100,000 years ago some humanoids were formed from eons of evolution...by chance.
They developed self awareness...by chance.
Throughout the past 100,000 years their societies became more ordered and more complex...from chaotic to organized...by chance. (That damned second law of thermodynamics just keeps getting in my way. Enthalpy to Entropy...Order to Chaos...But for argument's sake...)
As a matter of fact, 100.000 years later, it is just by mere chance that you understand these symbols that you read on your cathode ray tube...or your plasma screen...which I am using to communicate this idea to you? Aren't these symbols random? Don't you have the despair of dyslexia? Yeah!!! Right!!!
Can't you see why I cannot buy into this argument? It is weak. It is so weak that it is ridiculous, that is, worthy of ridicule. The problem with this is so simple. If the Universe has a design, any design, then it implies a Designer by its mere existence. That Designer is
God and the existence of you and I is what makes the argument for atheism so very, very weak and ridiculous.
According to some of my colleagues there is a chance, by the laws of Quantum Mechanics, that I can step out of my front door and materialize on the surface of Mars. You don't buy that? Well...I do. I understand complex mathematics. I understand probability. I am a Physicist. I am a genius. I have an elevated I.Q. I am smarter than every 100 people that I meet...on average. (Yet, because of my social circle, I have to bias that a little to the smarter side. So maybe I am smarter than every 50 people that I meet...on average.) So I do understand that there is a remote chance of my walking (rather gasping) on Mars without a spacesuit. (It just would be too bad that I'd not live to tell of my adventure.) But there is a much, much greater chance of that happening than that of the Universe being created by chance.
So is that arrogance...or just mere fact...or maybe it is a coinherent? But I'd adopt a little more humility if someone will state that he doesn't know when, most certainly, he does not... "
God doesn't exist." Bah!!! That statement is the epitomy of arrogance. It is so sad, so very sad that it is laughable. I'd rather laugh than cry.
It takes a greater leap of faith to deny the existence of a Designer than to understand and accept the existence of the Supreme. All I need do to see Him is open my eyes. The mathematics is His language.
Jesus Christ is Lord.