So let me get this straight?

Question

The earth is made up of trillions of molecules that have been around for 4.5 billion years, with chemical and mechanical processes going on all around it. The earth sits in a 14 billion year old universe made up of billions of galaxies and hundreds of billions of stars with countless billions of planets, each with trillions of their own molecules with their own chemical and mechanical reactions. With all these billions of trillions of molecules interacting over time, Christians still deny that a random chemical reaction can come together to create life. The fact is, with the number of molecules in the oceans and on land, the reaction to create life has probably happened time and time again right here on our very own planet.
So with all of what's going on at the molecular level, how can Christians deny life can started out of a simple random happening, and prefer to believe a magical deity is a more plausible explanation?

"explain to me just how all those molecules got to be in the first place?"

Ok then, E=mc2

"Eds (A simple Christian)"
I can tell.

Answer 1

Shhhh...if you're not careful, you'll cause their heads to explode =3.

Answer 2

sorry, i pretty much agree with you about the implausibility of an explanation based on a 'magical deity', but you're being pretty vague and appealing to large numbers instead of a deity. there are many more molecules present in the atmosphere of a gas giant like jupiter, and yet that environment doesn't seem to have lead to formation of life (so far as we can tell anyway). there are relatively few *types* of molecules present, which may be the more important factor in terms of biochemistry. they do have a point i think, when they say that the specific process that lead to the formation of the first life has not been identified. where they go wrong is their assumption that such a process will never be identified and a god must have done it instead.

Answer 3

Research the science. There was an old Isaac Asimov book I read several years ago in which a statistical probability was calculated. It determined that the creation of the precise proteins necessary for life on *any* *possible* planet in the known universe (known at that time - the 70s, I think) was so statistically improbable that it was, from a practical viewpoint, impossible for such a random occurence. Isaac, good atheist that he was, responded that there were so many proteins that *might* lead to the development of life that the probability was not nearly so remote. His take was that it was not statistically "impossible" that *some* life-generating group of proteins might randomly form on one planet. Therefore, it just so happened that these particular proteins, of all proteins, formed on our particular planet, of all planets.

This was just to point out two things:

1) It is *really* improbable, statistically, *from what we know*, that life would arise randomly on a particular planet.

2) It is *really* improbable, statistically, *from what we know*, that life *as we know it on earth* would arise on any of the trillions or more earth-like planets that we can hypothesize exist in the universe.

It's not quite as inevitable as you would like to make it seem.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 4

...... and all of these billions of molecules and reactions and whatever else came from where?.... Of course they just appeared here. Then by coincidence, eh, science, they decided to react with each other perfectly in order to form the brilliant life and oceans and land that we have on our very own planet....... So it's more plausible that accidental scientific reactions and molecules created life and the world than a God saying "Let there be light," and there was light?

Once again, it takes more faith to believe everything, all of the billions and trillions of molecules and stars and planets and gases, formed by a coincidental accident than it does to believe a powerful being created everything.

Answer 5

You need to increase your numbers... quadrillions of molecules... and probably more than that.

It's an unfortunate coincidence that the very thing that makes what you propose a statistical possibility (the extreme size of the numbers) is also what dissuades the typical mind from considering the plausibility of this scenario. Because their little minds couldn't grasp the explanation, they discarded it and invented a supermind (god) that can.

Bizarre.

Answer 6

Because there is no evidence for its possibilty. Noone has ever created life from non-living material. Have you heard of the Law of Biogenesis? Non-living materials cannot create life. Do you really believe that the complex DNA code accidently created itself? Non-Christian scientists have done the studies and know that it is immpossible. You must have DNA to form RNA, amino acids, and proteins. You have to have the living organism in place to create the DNA and then RNA to produce the amino acids to make the proteins and on and on. You fail to realize the complexity of the simplest single cell, which is made up of millions of complex MACHINES which all MUST be in place before the cell can function at all. The odds of this happenning by chance in only one place in the universe has been shown to be less unlikely than the universe's very existance.



http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences4.html

Answer 7

The 3 "E"s

Ego. Christians like to think they're here for a special reason, and their egos won't allow them to believe they're just a random miracle of nature. That's not good enough for them.

Entitlement. Christians like to believe that good morals should entitle them to more than the earthly rewards they bring. For that effort, they demand to be entitled to everlasting joy and life. Mere atoms won't get them that.

Easy. Christianity has been formed to fit every culture and moral structure. It's been used to justify wars, slavery, genocide, child molestation, and repression of human rights. It's easy to defend any action with Christian standards, or so history reveals. Physics won't provide that such easy justifications.

Just because the probability for an occurence is low doesn't make it impossible. Winning a State lottery has odds over 20 million to one. Yet there's a winner every week.

Answer 8

Because we are all only mammals and we need something to believe in to help us be stronger. Truly, it does seem easier to understand that than the billion and trillion facts that must be understood from the science version.

Answer 9

But they have a clumsily cobbled-together old book of dubious origin that's been translated dozens of times and can be interpreted countless ways. How can you expect mere logic, reason and an enormous amount of scientific evidence and mathematical probability to stack up against that?

Answer 10

Well, scientists have yet to prove random chemical combinations can create living organisms. Im not christian or religious either so don't use that against me. Our current scientific theory on how life was created is a bit... empty...

Answer 11

Wow those molecules were really very ingenious..to collect themselves together and create man, all the different species of birds, animals, reptiles, fish, flowers, etc. I think it takes much more faith to believe this fantasy than to believe what God tells us in His word.

Lol..you are the one with the molecule therory. You tell me how the molecules got there. I believe that everything is created by God...no isolated molecules needed..God created.