If you don't believe in God, then what is the likelihood that we were "accidentally" created over millions or billions of years? Does anyone else see how illogical this sounds?
2007-10-02 03:25:12 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I say accidentally because in my molecular biology of the cell book it says that molecular evolution is due to mistakes and accidents.
2007-10-02 03:42:34 · update #1
There is none. We are not here by chance. God created us for a purpose.
2007-10-02 03:29:43 · answer #1 · answered by ~Living4HIM~ 4 · 2⤊ 8⤋
It's not accidental, it's selective, over billions of years. The fact that we're here is proof that it worked.
Injecting a supernatural being into the equation doesn't change that fact -- it only adds something that you WANT to believe about how we got here.
Besides, are you trying to suggest that it's MORE logical to assume that some supernatural being magically made all of this apepar?
I keep going back to this analogy to try to clarify the concept. Take an equally weighted coin and flip it. 100,000 times. 1,000,000 times. No matter how many times you do it, the coin will land heads-up approximately 50% of the time. Now, is there a God making sure that happens? Of course not. But it IS proof that randomness isn't as random as you think. Nature has a propensity to order itself. Just look at any snowflake. In the same way, nature had a propensity, over billions of years, to form stars, planets, galaxies, and eventually, life.
It's not about sand turning into living beings, or monkeys giving birth to humans, or a 747 spontaneously assembling itself in a junkyard. That's not how it works. To say those things shows your misunderstanding of the basic concept -- that slowly, over millions of years, species gradually adapted and changed in response to their environments. The useful adaptations continued and eventually evolved the organisms into new forms.
None of it is accidental or by chance. It's just the orderly way nature works.
2007-10-02 10:36:36 · answer #2 · answered by Cap'n Zeemboo 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Doesn't it sound illogical that the earth is flat? Why don't the people on the underside fall into space?
My point is, to a layman evolution may sound illogical, but so does the idea that the earth is round. Certainly they sound more logical than there being a big bearded guy in the sky who created us, sent a messenger who then died for sins we didn't commit and later raised from the dead as a zombie.
2007-10-02 10:29:51 · answer #3 · answered by 8Dave 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Chance and accident have absolutely nothing to do with evolution or with the origins of life. We did not "just happen" to evolve in the right circumstance for life. Like others, I suggest reading some actual scientific theory on these subjects. Chance has very little to do with how we evolved.
As for the flip side, what about the bad/unintelligent parts of our design? For instance, why do we breathe and eat from the same opening? Dolphins do not choke, but we do. Design flaw?
We have many such design flaws, which brings one to question just how omnipotent our alleged Creator would be, if you believe in that.
2007-10-02 10:40:57 · answer #4 · answered by Donut 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think they understood your question.
The point is not "what is the probability that once life 'happened' it might begin to evolve"
At least, that is not how I understood it...perhaps I got it wrong.
The chance that life could just happen to happen...well, there isn't any such chance. No matter how many times you flip the proverbial coin, it is never going to sprout wings and fly away...
If you take an infinite number of grains of sand and lay them along the beach, there is absolutely no chance that any one of them will ever come to life, let alone evolve into anything...
2007-10-02 10:48:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No it is not illogical. Te only reason why you find it illogical is because you lack the ability to even understand the basic understanding of science. You simply blindly follow whatever the priest/pastor tells you.
2007-10-02 10:34:15 · answer #6 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Accident implies something not meant to happen. Like 'I accidentally spilt my drink'
Evolution works on natural laws. If you believe that complex organic life evolved through random chance - you'd be delusional.
Here is where your argument falls down - that is not what evolutionary is about at all - mutation is random, selection is not. I'd explain more but you'd close your ears in fear that what you learned would doom you to hell.
2007-10-02 10:30:29 · answer #7 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Evolution isn't 'accidental' It is selective and according to existing laws. Arguments of origin and evolution are different. You seem to misunderstand the theory of evolution. Try the science section or some textbooks.
2007-10-02 10:28:15 · answer #8 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 7⤊ 2⤋
sounds like a childish statement.
To believe in God, and then claim to know what only a god could know? Now that sounds illogical!
2007-10-02 10:29:47 · answer #9 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Do you ever play the lottery? If so, why, when you know that the odds of winning are 76 million to 1?
You do so because one chance in 76 million is still a CHANCE.
2007-10-02 10:28:39 · answer #10 · answered by Deke 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
A one in a billion chance means that IT WILL HAPPEN once in a billion attempts.
The universe is 14 billion years old.
2007-10-02 10:31:06 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋