All life is said to have evolved from unicelluar organism
which are nothing but a bunch of chemicals put in a particular pattern.
If these chemicals could be put together in the required pattern by the forces of nature etc. etc., and evolved from there to become man,
then why not other chemicals and elements be put together to form a Mercedez Benz?
2006-07-23 19:23:21 · 16 answers · asked by chris_muriel007 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let me first state that I am agnostic. Now then...
Ugh. Because you creationists are looking at life and ASSUMING that it was planned, to begin with. As a Mercedez Benz is. What you are using here is faulty reasoning. For example, I have an iPod. With about 500 songs on it. Your argument would be like me putting my playlist on shuffle, and allowing it to play through 3 songs, then afterwards saying, "What are the odds of it playing those three songs? A million to one. It couldn't have been on shuffle. It had to be planned." We have no idea what other ways those same chemicals could come together, and what else they could have created. There are billions of possibilities. But we know living things tend to adapt to their environment. Thus the conditions on Earth probably have a lot to do with how evolution occurred. Yes, it is theoretically possible (though nearly infinitely unlikely) for a Mercedez Benz (or anything else) to come together at random. But what determines what will be produced is the elements that are available, and the conditions of the environment. I don't know if evolution was entirely responsible for creating human beings or not. Perhaps God exists, and controlled the process. But the reasoning you are trying to refute it with is faulty, no offense, and it would please me to no end to be able to explain this to everyone who has ever tried that argument.
2006-07-23 19:37:34 · answer #1 · answered by Master Maverick 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Listen, kid - do you think anyone here is going to explain the theory of evolution to you? Why don't you go get a book? Do you understand the difference between an organic and inorganic molecule? Do you know anything at all about evolution? You would have to be incrediably young or incredibly stupid to ask such a question (though you are not alone - yesterday it was a cell phone, the day before that a tv...)
Here are the questions you are driving at. Please, try again (sometime after puberty, please):
*What happened before the big bang?
*Where did the laws that govern the universe come from?
*Where did the super dense matter that exploded to become the universe (big bang) come from?
*In an infinitude of possibilities, why do these particular laws of physics and set of atoms exist?
*Atoms assemble into meaningful composites, much like a jigsaw puzzle...but would you ever consider that the jigsaw puzzle pieces were not created for that purpose?
2006-07-24 02:29:18 · answer #2 · answered by sebek12345 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those chemicals and elements did put together a Mercedez Benz. People are large vats of Chemicals and elements which put cars together (Or robots that make cars).
2006-07-24 02:37:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because the chemicals that make up life are organic. the chemicals that make up a mercedez benz are inorganic. i wish you idiot creationist would at least try to give us a real question sometime, or at least have some idea of what you are talking about.
2006-07-24 02:33:34 · answer #4 · answered by crazyman_2 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
other chemicals do make up a mercedez benz.... what exactly are you asking? if your asking why the chemicals couldnt someday evolve into a mercedez benz, its because a benz isnt alive and is manufactured by us humans as we see fit.
2006-07-24 02:30:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
But Mercedez Benz-es are put together everyday by men and women.
That leads me to question where does "God" come from?
Sure "God" exists in some people's mind but not others.
So how did it get there? Could it be fictitious? It is a possibility...
2006-07-24 02:44:05 · answer #6 · answered by : ) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Mercedes-Benz is a highly evolved piece of machinery,could I start with a lower form of mechanics. possibly a club, or a nice throwing rock. That would be almost feasible!
2006-07-24 02:31:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first question is just stupid and has been adequately responded to so I'm going to go on a tangent of proportions most epic.
"Scientists have calculated the odds of all we know in our world happening by chance at over 1,000,000,000 to one."
The universe is over ten billion (10,000,000,000 ) years, closer to 15 actually, but I'd rather be low in my estimates than high. Now, if the chemical reaction to create life only happened once each year it would drop those odds down to 100,000,000:1. Not very good, but we're getting somewhere. Now, this would only be on one planet.
There are undoubtedly innumerable planets in our great cosmos, some fraction of which would probably be able to support life on, still a massive amount I'm reasonably sure. With this immense number we can assume that the random occurrences of life occurring on one of them can at least be measured in monthly intervals, dropping our odds down to a lowly 8,333,333:1.
Much more likely those odds are being checked much more daily, based on the sheer amount of available molecules for the creation of life. Let's up our checking to daily, and we have 273,972:1 odds that life would occur, if in the entire universe there were enough planets that the dice roll for life to be thrown once a day.
If by some odd chance we checked against those odds every Planck second ( Planck frequency ) we would have 1:4.1926744 odds. But that would be checking every 5.3906 * 10 * -44 seconds, about as probably as me sprouting a Mercedes out of my ***.
Even if my odds are supremely off and I made a complete *** out of myself, my point stands. 1,000,000,000:1 may seem like insurmountable odds, but when you're rolling against those odds every second for 10 billion years, your odds improve greatly.
2006-07-24 02:54:47 · answer #8 · answered by Lucifer 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A Mercedes Benz is not the result of natural selection. But, it is the result of evolution.
Why do thumpers pose questions about evolution to atheists? Atheism only refers to the fact "God" does not exist.
In no case is "God did it" a suitable answer for any mystery.
2006-07-24 02:29:55 · answer #9 · answered by Left the building 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of the order we know in our world and universe could not come from random evolution.
Evolution could make a man, or animals or plant life or anything else any more than it could make a Mercedes-Benz.
Scientists have calculated the odds of all we know in our world happening by chance at over 1,000,000,000 to one. You wouldn't take that bet, so why would you believe Macro-evolution?
Give God his due!
2006-07-24 02:32:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋