If you took a watch apart, put all the pieces in a paper bag, folded the top over, shook it, then dumped it all on the table....how many times would you have to do this before the watch came out assembled, ticking, and keeping the correct time?
The entirety of time up until this point wouldnt be enough to get a functioning and calibrated watch from that process. Origin-of-life scientists had mostly given up on the explanations of random chance and natural selection by the early 1970's, but the ideas are still popular among laypeople.
People just do not understand how insanely improbable it is for such complex systems to arise randomly. The roughly 16 billion years of the universe's existence isn't enough time to create even a single cell through such unintelligent processes.
If you took a watch apart, put all the pieces in a paper bag, folded the top over, shook it, then dumped it all on the table....how many times would you have to do this before the watch came out assembled, ticking, and keeping the correct time?
The entirety of time up until this point wouldnt be enough to get a functioning and calibrated watch from that process. Origin-of-life scientists had mostly given up on the explanations of random chance and natural selection by the early 1970's, but the ideas are still popular among laypeople.
People just do not understand how insanely improbable it is for such complex systems to arise randomly. The roughly 16 billion years of the universe's existence isn't enough time to create even a single cell through such unintelligent processes.