ATHEISTS: Isn't LIFE enough proof of GOD's existence???

Question

The storage capacity of the human brain is estimated to exceed 4 terabytes. It can store and recognize remember 10,000 different odors and differentiate between up to eight million colors and 500 shades of gray. At least 100,000 different chemical reactions occur in the brain every second.
What are the chances of nature producing something as complex as the brain? Hypothetically, you wouldn't expect a Computer to "build itself"?

Answer 1

Erm... no.

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Answer 2

First - I suspect that the brain can store a heck of a lot more than 4 terabytes. Remember you can buy that must storage at Fry's for about 2 grand.

Second, Computers don't build themselves yet. They don't have replicating molecules in them.

Third, why couldn't a human being develop using the forces of evolution given millions and billions of years? I admit it seems a fantastic concept. But it seems perfectly reasonable to me.

On the other - what are the odds of an all powerful, all knowing, all wise being just existing without a start, without an end, fully formed? Doesn't that seem a tad unlikely to you ?

Seriously!!!

Answer 3

I'm sure your computer was just built by the first engineer to do so. It wasn't the cumulative product of decades of scientific and engineering knowledge.

Indeed, it didn't just build itself, but nor was it made by just one engineer. Evolution works under the same conditions as the evolution of a more complex computer, a cumulative process of selection and replication. With the computer, those attributes of greater processing speed, smaller transistors, etc are chosen and copied again and again, with each generation improving just slightly. If computers had a billion years of knowledge behind them, you'd expect them to be godly compared to the computers we have today. There is nothing random about it, those attributes which allow an individual a better chance of surviving will live on in subsequent generations. Life has been around for about a billion years and in that much time things that may seem impossible to us humans have a good chance of occuring due to probability. If you lived for a billion years, and filled out a lottery ticket every week, you are sure to win not one, but dozens of jackpots. With evolution, an improbability such as the brain only has to happen once for it to be passed on.

Answer 4

I'm not an atheist, but I think your reasoning is based on a false premise: you think you can calculate the odds of life as it exists happening as a result of evolution. Ok, genius, what are the odds of things NOT turning out this way as a result of random chance? STILL incalcuable. So it's no evidence at all!!!

I find these phoney pop-reasoning games really annoying.

Ok, how about this: If God created everything and God is perfect like a watch, where did God come from? Surely there must be a God-maker somewhere!

You see, I realize people love to argue over this petty stuff, but atheists and theists alike keep coming back to the same circular arguments that lead nowhere. FACE the ONE TRUE FACT: YOU DON'T *KNOW.* Say it with me: "I really don't know if the world or life or anything was created by a god or chance or mathematical probability and bickering over it obviously doesn't improve my life."

Important public service message over. Have a nice day.

Answer 5

> Isn't LIFE enough proof of GOD's existence?
Nope. Even if someone did concede the existence of a deity, then he would have to prove it was Abraham's deity that was responsible for life.

> What are the chances of nature producing something as complex as the brain?
100%. It happened. Think about it.

> Hypothetically, you wouldn't expect a Computer to "build itself"?
Nope. It might if there were templates available... which there were.

Answer 6

Um NO, it's not. Life is actually what proves that such a god can't exist because you're claiming that something which is declared "unchangeable" and so forth can produce a bunch of stuff that is constantly changing and dependent upon various things to come into existence. Quite illogical. Also anything can come into existence via various causes and conditions, but if such things were so spectacular, like your example of the "human brain", then why do people get brain cancer? Not such a perfect example anymore is it?

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Answer 7

I asked a question of this nature before. You can refer to it by looking at the questions i have asked. I found out that most people thought i was being narrow minded. And i was to some extent. There is an infinite amount of knowledge that we dont know. It could theoratically speaking all be an accident which is NOT rare, but since we dont know enough about the world, we look at it in awe and think its miraculous and impossible to be self conducive. And you could twist your answer and say that isn't all the evil and injustice in the world enough proof of God's inexistence? Its impossible to answer this question accurately. I am not an athiest, but i have decided to stop being narrow minded. I dont know is simply the best answer.

Answer 8

Evolution created the complexity of the brain - of the human body - of all species. Complexity arises from simplicity. This is common sense.

You are telling us that a complex being (that was always complex) suddenly created everyone and everything complex all at once.

Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?

Answer 9

Hello =)

Generally speaking, I always thought that it was a good argument until YOU brought it up.....

Your logic boggles the mind with its defilements.....

You being alive suddenly disproves the existence of God, to me, anyway.....

The Buddha once said:

Even if a fool were to live his whole life with a wise man, he still would not recognize the truth, in the same way that a wooden spoon cannot recognize the flavour of the soup.

But if a wise man were to live with a wise man for even a short while, he would recognize the truth, in the same way that a tongue can recognize the flavour of the soup.

You sir, are a wooden spoon, and not a tongue, I fear.

Namaste,

--Tom

Answer 10

Sadly, amino acids combining to make a single celled organism, which then became a bacteria..........yada yada..........humans makes more sense than the hole filled bible. Really it's that or God created a man in his image, but god has no image, god then created eve out of a rib, but women have spines the same as us. Then he flooded the earth, but there's no proof the earth was ever flooded. No science is winning the logical race so far.

Answer 11

so there's no evolution and we were like this from the start ? how would god have known 4 terrabytes ? when its a modern term

also if we always had that brain span why didnt we invent computers thousands of years ago? another thing if god created life why would he let it slip away so easily?

Another thing , how did people find the bible surely it wouldnt have been written in english anyways. im guessin "God" just dropped it