Developed purely by chance, too. Just random protons and electrons floating and darting about in a primordial soup, then a lightning strike, and POOF! Atoms form inorganic molecules—which accidentally become organic! (This happens at everyone's house daily...dirt and rocks in the yard, or pots and pans in the kitchen, just suddenly spring to life and start squirmin' and wigglin'. :) Then the molecules begin to consume energy, because of course they know how to; and suddenly arrange themselves into precise and specific order, create amino acids, and then protein chains hundreds of amino acids long, just for the hell of it, et voilà: Homo sapiens from pond scum.
Because items always tend to go from chaos to order and become arranged in impossibly unlikely alignment by themselves. Whenever I throw my clothes on the floor, they wash, iron, and hang themselves up. This is how the universe works. Purely by chance.
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.
Its like a whole freaken city
Developed purely by chance, too. Just random protons and electrons floating and darting about in a primordial soup, then a lightning strike, and POOF! Atoms form inorganic molecules—which accidentally become organic! (This happens at everyone's house daily...dirt and rocks in the yard, or pots and pans in the kitchen, just suddenly spring to life and start squirmin' and wigglin'. :) Then the molecules begin to consume energy, because of course they know how to; and suddenly arrange themselves into precise and specific order, create amino acids, and then protein chains hundreds of amino acids long, just for the hell of it, et voilà: Homo sapiens from pond scum.
Because items always tend to go from chaos to order and become arranged in impossibly unlikely alignment by themselves. Whenever I throw my clothes on the floor, they wash, iron, and hang themselves up. This is how the universe works. Purely by chance.
My favorite way to complete jigsaw puzzles is by throwing them against the wall over and over again.
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.