Why is a \"designer\" so compelling? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Monday, July 27, 2009, 05:20 (5380 days ago) @ xeno6696

The only part chance plays into this, is in determining the likelihood in a given time and a given place, this event would occur. When you take into consideration that our universe is *expanding,* that means that it truly is infinite, and as such the probability of this event is 100% *somewhere* even if its not here on earth. - Hate to break into such a long-winded discourse between you two, but the above makes no sense to me. The universe started with the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Life started here about 3.6 billion years go. The finite time for life to appear here was 10.1 billion years. There was no 'infinity' of time for chance to cause the event. There were 10.1 billion years, not an open-ended stretch of time. - By the way, expansion of the universe is theoretically not infinite. It is predicted by most theorists with infinite expansion, space-time will rip and the universe be destroyed. We will be gone long before then in 'heat death', if we survive the expansion of our sun in 5 billion years, by moving to another solar system with a friendly planet like ours.