Its the absoluteness of things, for apparently no reason at all. Its the everything from nothing. its the way the puzzles fit together so well that make me think that there is a creator.
You find two rocks about a mile apart....later you happen to bring them together and find that they FIT perfectly.
Do you assume that someone made the two separate rocks such that they would fit together? Or do you conclude that maybe they were at some stage one rock that broke apart and due to some process they ended up so widely separated?
You investigate further and find that in fact there was a flood only recently that resulted in a torrent. So the rock might have struck something broke up and one piece traveled further along the torrent due to being lighter or not encountering other obstacles etc. etc.
Isn't the natural solution so much more in keeping with the Occam's Razor principle than assuming that some person created two rocks in such a ways so as to fit together and placed them widely apart?
Things in nature seem to fit so uncannily not because they were made to fit....they fit because they fit..... if they did not fit then they would not be the way they are and there would be no discussion. If you look at the sky and see a rabbit in the fluffy clouds it does not mean that someone made a bunny out of condensed water vapor. It means that YOU are assigning meaning to a shape that happens to be the way it is and YOU are trying to make SENSE out of it.
If there are certain things we don't understand today does not mean that there isn't a natural reason for them. Assuming the God of the Gaps to explain things you do not understand is a COPOUT.
Also assuming a
God of Hindsight (yes it is me who coined the phrase (c) 2011) is even a bigger copout. To say that now we know how something works naturally but in reality god did it all along that way to give us an indication of his hand in it is an ATROCIOUS LIBEL against nature and reason.
A while back when we did not know what caused diseases we assumed God/Devil did them. Now that we know what causes them we still pray to God to cure them when we do not know how to cure them. But the ones we know how to cure we do not pray to god…but still assume god created the creatures that cause the diseases.
When we did not know how the cosmos works we assumed it was god and his angels that wound the clockworks. Now we know we don’t assume that god keeps the clock wound but we still assume he made the clock.
By the way….. a sexual reproduction was the modus operandi in the oceans where it was easy to spread genetic material into the currents and guarantee wide distribution. Sexual reproduction became necessary on land where spraying sperm and eggs along the currents would not be possible. But you may notice that POLLEN for trees is a viable asexual means that STILL works.
By the way….evolution from asexual to sexual was NOT a sudden thing….there are TODAY organisms that are BOTH asexual and sexual. So that shows how the TRANSITION between the two occurred gradually and bisexual
creatures are a missing link of sorts (not quite).
By the way…the Big Bang does NOT assert that matter and the universe started from nothing….that is just the THEISTS WISHING it to have said so. Most cosmologists today would NOT say that the big bang is the start of the UNIVERSE as opposed to the universe….. like I said to you before….it all depends on how wide your SCOPE OF DEFINITION for the word universe goes.
Maybe OUR CORNER of the UNIVERSE (i.e. universe) started with a big bang…. But the UNIVERSE (we need a better word…maybe HYPER-UNIVERSE???) did not start with a big bang. In the Hyper-Universe there are millions of Big Bangs that have happened or are in the process of happening or will happen to create millions of universes. Maybe Big Bangs are actually Big Oscillations etc. etc.
It is a little ironic that the Big Bang theory was started by a
CATHOLIC PRIEST and that now it is such a DARLING of theists to use against science and to intimate that god is the SINGULARITY before the big bang. What a convenient SCAM.
Ah…another point….in evolution there are no BACKWARDS or FORWARDS….there is Genetic Mutation and Environmental SELECTION.
Let me see if I can simplify evolution……
DNA replicates….. this replication can sometimes go wrong (i.e. the copy is not faithful
) …. This error can either result in failure of the fetus or no effect at all, or a slight change in the fetus but still surviving to term.
Now this new baby is SLIGHTLY different from the ORIGINAL PLAN…. This slight difference can either be deleterious as far as the environment as the baby grows up in or it can be advantageous. If it is disadvantageous then the baby will have none or very few babies of its own. If the change is advantageous then the baby will have more babies of its own that resemble it who are able to survive better due to inheriting the NEW TRAIT.
Over millions of years the ENVIRONMENTAL SELECTION will ensure that the organism better suited to survive in it will have a reproductive advantage and thus more copies of it will occupy the environment.
There is NO BETTER OR WORSE….there is NO FORWARD OR BACKWARD…..we humans are NOT the APEX of evolution….we are ONE BRANCH along the HUMUNGOUS tree with all but uncountable branches.
