Chance v. Design (Evolution)

by Matt S. , Tuesday, June 02, 2009, 22:16 (5451 days ago) @ dhw

dhw, you would do well to investigate the link I posted in our main discussion. You really do talk an awful lot about chance and your reservations that all this complexity arose by chance, to me it seems like putting the cart before the horse... and I will agree with George that I do not find that the first self-replicating molecule needed to be complex. Furthermore, what is your definition of complex? What is your definition of chance? - Do you find something special about life, and if so, what exactly is it, and what do you think you would lose in an explanation that excluded a designer? You seem rightly amazed by the world and the universe, but I struggle with the concept of a designer, but we need to discuss preliminaries first. - You seem to be the opposite of myself, you an agnostic who leans towards design, where I am an agnostic that leans towards no design. - Realistic dialog (if you are interested in exploring this topic) means that we (meaning you and I) need to address these issues, because even though you worked very hard to be balanced in your writing (which overall, is extremely well crafted) it does betray a prejudice. And I would like to know more about why you think chance seems so implausible, keeping in mind that in probability, an unlikely event can still happen--no matter the odds against it. - Improbable events happen all the time. - A one in a million event happens 14 times a day in a city with 14 million people.