Wow, first of all no offense, you better read up on evidence. Even ask Trip regarding "evidence" in the scientific world. Why do you think he is "agnostic" when it comes to the existence of God? Too many things unexplained. We call this "super natural".
Well there are. If the evidence for atheism is so overwhelming then why is 2% of the world atheist? You should read some novels that prominent scientists and scholars who believe in God have written, they give powerful arguments for God from many different angles that have yet to be refuted.
I am not the one claiming there is some precise design to things. Why aren't we all precisely the same height? Why don't we have the same color eyes and hair (and skin, etc.)? Why are some stars yellow and some blue (and some red)? Why are some systems binary (pair of stars orbiting one another)? That's not precision. Why would God make any species at all? Why make us need to eat to survive? Why make us die of old age? Geez, this is shooting fish in a barrel.
Call them what you want to, many, many scientists believe DNA has a programmer. After all, programs require programmers last I checked. And the reason you don't believe is because you adhere to man-made theories. Which is fine I guess, you're skeptical of God, I'm skeptical of what men think they know.
Pretty easy to explain if you are a "Christian"; but let's look at it logically. Let's forget God is all knowing or omnipresent. Let's just think of him as a "Scientist" outside this universe. The universe is a petri dish. He puts things in this universe to support life. He will fine tune the universe; just in case things need adjustment. In the end, life must follow all the known laws of physics; therefor we are all different. Yeah this is like shooting fish in a barrel.
So God isn't the Creator anymore. Now you're getting it. If you want to define God as random chance, then there is a God.
I gave it to you. So far, you only said 1 chance in 10 to the 40,000 power and totally forgot to mention the improbability of life actually forming on earth. You still don't get it do you? I gave all the available atoms in the entire known universe. And I know damn well you know how much that is; then the time of the entire universe, not earth. Then I said just life on earth requires all the known atoms in the universe to make life. You said there still is a chance. Do you know the size of Earth compared to the universe? Are you saying that the universe started at Earth?
I'm curious, is it that important to you to be "right"? I'm in a thread to offer rebuttal's to claims that my beliefs are not sound. But I don't see the thread that says it is not sound to believe in god. I see the two people with the belief in god seem to have an insecurity that makes it important to also convince others. To judge them for their beliefs. See, this is why you are wrong, otherwise, prove it. Prove me wrong. When the majority here are not making any attempt to prove that YOUR faith is wrong. Just showing the proof you have against ours is faulty.
Maybe it's that at th ebeginning of time, each planet was running one of the combinations, and with the number of planets there are, it increases the probability that one of the planets would begin life. One scientist running 100 experiments in a day to prove something isn't likely. But 100 scientists each running one makes it more likely.
Well for me personally, my motivation has always been to bring people into the truth of the Lord Jesus. Plus I like debating things, and I just don't see how staunch atheism is logical, never have.
