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In reply to the discussion: Neil deGrasse Tyson destroys argument for intelligent design [View all]robersl
(83 posts)OK, so there is no big guy in the sky with a long beard type of God - I'll grant you that. But how exactly do you explain Life without some sort of Creator?
I always hear this stuff about comets crashing or lightning striking and causing complex molecules to appear. And yes, its been done in the lab.
But complex molecules are not Life. A one-celled living thing still needs an extremely complex cell structure and genome to exist, and within the chromosomes there must be the impetus to replicate itself. Maybe you can make the case that through genetic mutation and selection one-celled creatures ended up spawning a chain of life that developed into what we have today, but no one ever, ever addresses the issue of how the level of complexity necessary to start this chain off could possibly just come into being.
So the chest-thumping "sciency" people on threads like this, in my opinion, are exhibiting the same level of magical thinking as the fundamentalists. They have apparently never closely examined their own belief that this is all just an accident of nature, which idea, to my mind, is much less likely than the notion that there is an intelligent creator behind this vast and complex universe.