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In reply to the discussion: Neil deGrasse Tyson destroys argument for intelligent design [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)Ancient Earth is nothing like today's Earth.
For example, today if you spill some food on the ground, it will decompose. Even if you manage to keep animals, fungi and bacteria from landing on it, it will break down due to the presence of oxygen in our atmosphere.
Ancient Earth had no free oxygen. So complex, yet not living things did not decompose.
Life probably developed from something that resembled a prion. A complex molecule that was able to create copies of itself from the "primordial soup".
Over time, one of those copies happened to be inside a lipid bilayer, allowing it to exert much more control over its local environment. Ta-da! Single-celled organisms.
Over time, those cells stumbled into more complex forms and shapes that allowed for more complex functionality. Which eventually built upon itself to the massively specialized and complex organisms that populate our planet today.
Extremely unlikely events will occur, given enough time. 2 billion years is a very, very, very, long time.
If you want to support an intelligent creator, you'd have to explain why we are so terribly designed.
For example:
Food and air travel through the same "pipe", allowing us to choke to death.
Our eyes require a complex system to put a layer of water on the surface in order to properly focus light. Why do we need light to pass through water for us to focus it, since we are land animals?
Men have two holes within the structure of their abdomen - testicles develop identically to ovaries until they pass through these holes. That makes men far more vulnerable to hernias.
Then there's the whole co-mingling of our reproductive tracts and sewage systems.
We are extremely poorly designed creatures. Any intelligent designer would not make us this way.