The Sermon Part 2 (Agnosticism)

by David Turell , Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 20:56 (5959 days ago) @ Carl

The implication that the ultimate objective of God was intelligent life and , presumably, humans seems unlikely. 13.7 billion years since the universe was created, 4.5 billion years since the earth was created and 160 million years of dinosaur dominance just to arrive at a few thousand years of humanity seems like the long way around. I would say that if we are special in the eyes of God, we must be just one of many projects.
> David also asks of an earlier post of mine suggesting self organization of matter, "why should organic material be that way? By chance or by design?".
> This was a question I had never considered, and it takes the issue all the way back to the Big Bang. Does anyone have any information on whether the properties of the elements and all their of their countless compounds with other elements are thought to be established as part of the physical constants created in the Big Bang, so that a different universe would have different elements with different properties? - Carl: As an answer to the first part of your comment. Why God chose to use a process that took 13.7 billion years is part of the mystery about God. As regards to the initial conditions that created the universe, they follow 'laws' of physics that have no explanation as to why they are like they are. Certain organic complounds appear naturally in an inorganic universe, but only 8 of the 20 essential amino acids for life have been found in meteorites, and they are not always left-handed, which is required for life. That puts the idea of panspermia in a very suspect category. All 20 amino acids essential for life are left-handed and the nucleotides in DNA/RNA are right-handed. Very specific rules, when naturally occuring organic chemical reactions produce 50/50 right and left-handed molecules.