This covers God and Evolution as opposed to God vs Evolution. I will examine theories to the origin of life and coincide them with the belief in God.
I want to make it extremely clear that I am not supporting any religion and I am not religious at all. I don’t completely agree with the Bible and I certainly don’t take it literally. The belief that the world is 2000 years old is completely absurd and you should seriously evaluate your beliefs if you believe this. To deny that natural selection exists in order to support your own belief is inaccurate. If you see the Bible as a book of metaphors and moral advice then I believe that to be perfectly fine. Just remember that there are many religions throughout the world and believers all believe they’re right just as much as you do, keep doubt in the back of your mind.
Moreover, “To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selections, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.” Even Darwin himself acknowledges that evolution alone couldn’t possibly have been the only guiding force behind species we see today.
Using only our common sense, we can begin to see there’s no possible way that the universe and life have created themselves. We see the necessity of an all-powerful being that does not need to obey certain laws that must have been created. For instance, gravity. Laws like gravity are completely necessary for the existence of most things! Without these laws (light, motion, gravity) we would have nothing. Without a perfect amount of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide on earth there would be no life. The perfect climate, protection from radiation, and the right combination of molecules for liquid water, life ceases to exist. Additional things required for life’s existence are: a large moon and it’s gravitational pull, a sun with the right size and a correct distance from it, in the right location of the galaxy, protected by gas giant planets, a terrestrial planet with a crust thick enough to have plate tectonics, enough heat in it’s interior and magnetic fields, and enough water and continents. Thus, with all these perfect circumstances it seems highly unlikely they all happened by chance; nevertheless, still possible. Scientist have estimated that the chances of all these circumstances coming together is 1 in 1,000,000,000. All these things that we think of as just being there, actually serve a purpose towards our survival.
Having looked at the evidence and probabilities I can safely assume that there is a God or a creator. Humans being the dominant most intelligent species on the planet, must be pretty special. We are the ultimate in life. Never in the history of the planet has there been a civilization as advanced and complex as ours. Before you get too arrogant, keep this in mind. All creatures and all things are essentially made out of the same thing. All species have the same type of code that keeps you alive and are made from the same matter that keeps you physical! We can assume that life was created and might even have a purpose. As far as what that purpose is, that’s another one of life’s great mysteries we’ll probably never figure out.
Sources:
http://www.allaboutcreation.org/proof-of-god-video.htm
http://www.allaboutscience.org/scientific-wordviews-aasc-a4b8.htm
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/miller.html
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/cs_universe_laws.shtml
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