Do you think that life on earth was created by chance or intelligent design?

Question

I heard someone say that you could no more create life on earth by chance than you can expect a tornado to blow through a scrap metal yard and build a F-15 fighter jet. What do you think?

Answer 1

I like the analogy.
I believe that intelligent design is involved in everything.
Have you ever examined a snow drop under a microscope. What's the chance of that? And they are all different!

Answer 2

I'd argue that the jury is out on intelligent design.

As far as life developing through chance, I suppose it does, in a manner of speaking, since it's hard to anticipate what environmental changes a species will face over the years, nor can one determine what mutations will occur within a species

However, while chance does govern mutation within a species and environmental change, the system for determining which animals within a species will prosper in an environment is not chance. It's a pretty simple rule - those animals with the genetic traits best suited for their environment will prosper.

In this regard, the development of life is not entirely random - it's like rolling dice, and keeping the best rolls for whatever game you happen to be playing at the moment. I'd argue evolution functionally does the same thing.

Answer 3

An infinite number of tornadoes blowing through an infinite number of scrap yards will eventually assemble an F-15.

Where the universe is concerned, not that unlikely.

Answer 4

That's a terrible metaphor for evolution.

And chance, to answer the wuestion. That or the Flying Spaghetti Monster did it.

Edit: Actually, wait, you're not asking about evolution. You're asking about abiogenisis. Evolution is where things went afterwards. Sorry, my mistake.

Anyway, it's still a bad metaphor. And I think abiogenisis on Earth happened by chance, with evolution guided by various ecological and genetic factors.

Answer 5

I see no reason that I should not believe the bible on the subject.

Souls created had souls born in sin to die to souls are resurrected to be given the real thing they were meant to have. Why should born souls die forever, they did nothing but be born. God could not give them any thing if he had destroyed Adam and Eve.

But allowing a temporary condition with the promise of the real thing intended in the first place make all the sense possible.

Humans are not food.

Answer 6

Intelligent design...no doubt. Evolution says that the basic matter that existed in the beginning continually mutated, and that these mutations became more and more complex and formed more and more complex matter.
Obviously, this is not consistant with the way mutations work. In every case, mutations decrease the complexity and the order of things, not make them more complex.
You're exactly right in your statement about the F15 jet.

Answer 7

I see a careful way, in the order of life that has appeared on this planet. So I do not consider this has just happened like that and we have not understood yet fully this universe. Perhaps, the accelerated phase with which we are progressing to get to know about various matters in 20th and 21st century, makes us impatient to the whole truth and nothing but truth about life.
VR

Answer 8

That would be one way to describe the probability chances of random chance evolution. Another way would be to imagine how long it would take to type Shakespears Hamlet by simply putting a monkey at a typewriter and letting him pluck away wildly at the keyboard. Get real. Life doesn't come from dead chemicals.

Answer 9

I think it's not so ridiculous to think the world was created by chance. Look there are millions and millions and millions of worlds in the universe. We don't know of any other inhabited world (although it's not impossible that there are some). So, why is it so difficult to believe that one out of so many millions of worlds is going to have life?

Of course, we're deluded because this one world happens to be OUR world. But here's a thought for that. You and I are not going to be the next Monarch of England, right? There are about 6500 million people in the world, so it's statistically unlikely that we are the only person in the world who's going to be the next monarch of England. But someone IS going to be the next monarch of England, and that person (supposedly, Prince Charles) is also one of the 6500 million people in the world, just like you and me. Yet he is the one person who is going to be the next monarch of England. Well, think of the earth as Prince Charles. If one world in the universe HAD to be statistically apt for human life, well it happens to be the Earth.

Answer 10

If you really read the theories their is not much difference between them. Both require two main things to happen action and motion.would there be any difference in the sound of two particles colliding and starting the reaction or the voice of a God speaking a word that started things moving. I think they would both be a loud bang.