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One argument theist believe is that the precision of the conditions to create life is proof in itself the there is a creator.
The line of reasoning in an nutshell:
Life is intelligent by design > intelligent design requires precision > precision requires an intelligent creator
Let us agree that life is intelligent by design for the moment. After all, life is so fragile that anything you alter on a living beings very basic coding - their DNA - would cause it to malfunction or die.
And with that, though a weak argument, we can also kinda say it requires precision. Despite we know a lot of living beings that evolved with parts that are non-useful or sometimes detrimental to their survivability. Lets just say that they are precise enough to propagate long enough, no matter how quick, to be able to reach reproductive maturity. Let us accept that for the time being.
Now, does precision require a creator? Or in other words, precision will not exist by "accident" or random events?
There is a practice that was covered by Veritasium in a YøùTùbé video, where the people dumped 96 million plastic balls in a reservior. The idea was to improve the water quality and prevent evaporation. Though the engineering and simplicity is marvelous, that is not what we are talking about.
In the video, you would se a dump truck drop all the balls into the water.
What is interesting is how these balls would arrange themselves. They would form straight lines and altogether forming a honeycomb pattern.
With no intelligent being intervening, these balls form a very precise pattern. All is required is uniform attributes of each ball subjected to the same condition - flaoting in water surrounded by other balls.
We can imagine that the basic materials in the universe can behave the same way. No matter how improbable to repeat the same scenario, just one time it gets those conditions, it will inevitably behave a spectacular way, no outside intervention required.
What do you think?
The line of reasoning in an nutshell:
Life is intelligent by design > intelligent design requires precision > precision requires an intelligent creator
Let us agree that life is intelligent by design for the moment. After all, life is so fragile that anything you alter on a living beings very basic coding - their DNA - would cause it to malfunction or die.
And with that, though a weak argument, we can also kinda say it requires precision. Despite we know a lot of living beings that evolved with parts that are non-useful or sometimes detrimental to their survivability. Lets just say that they are precise enough to propagate long enough, no matter how quick, to be able to reach reproductive maturity. Let us accept that for the time being.
Now, does precision require a creator? Or in other words, precision will not exist by "accident" or random events?
There is a practice that was covered by Veritasium in a YøùTùbé video, where the people dumped 96 million plastic balls in a reservior. The idea was to improve the water quality and prevent evaporation. Though the engineering and simplicity is marvelous, that is not what we are talking about.
In the video, you would se a dump truck drop all the balls into the water.
What is interesting is how these balls would arrange themselves. They would form straight lines and altogether forming a honeycomb pattern.
With no intelligent being intervening, these balls form a very precise pattern. All is required is uniform attributes of each ball subjected to the same condition - flaoting in water surrounded by other balls.
We can imagine that the basic materials in the universe can behave the same way. No matter how improbable to repeat the same scenario, just one time it gets those conditions, it will inevitably behave a spectacular way, no outside intervention required.
What do you think?