Monday, October 31, 2005

The basics

1) What determined the mass and charge of electrons, protons, etc. so that matter congeals instead of a universal blob of radiation?

2) The size of the sun, the distance of our planet from the sun, the ability of our planet to deflect harmful radiation- all these factors (and more, I'm sure) simply to create a place that had the potential (not the certainty) for life.

3) What is the possibility that a bunch of atoms could be in the right place and time, under the right conditions, to merge into an amino acid?

4) What is the possibility that enough of these acids (hundreds) were created, and lasted long enough, to form into a protein chain (some protiens in our body consist of thousands of acids.)

5) How do you go from random formations of atoms to a self-sustaining, self-perpetuating single-cell creature? With nothing more than a "random" code of DNA (itself a string of thousands of proteins), how could a single-celled creature go from luck to life?

And there are probably many more layers of evidence that I could go into, but it 's late and I'm tired. Just two more thoughts:

-The Law of Entropy. If everything is slowly moving from order to chaos without intelligent intervention, how could such an amazingly complex, intelligent creature like man ever be accounted for without intelligence?

-Occam's(sp?) Razor. The simplest explanation is the most probable. Yeah...maybe we are the product of billions of lucky variables. It's possible. BUT, it's even more likely that we were created by intelligence. God does not play dice.

My conclusion: God exists. The tough part: determining the attributes of God.

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