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.
Self replicating nucleic acids are all you need to start this process, and yes, all you need for that are nucleic acids, energy, and time. And not only was there plenty of time, billions of years, but the interactions at this scale are occurring then and now tens of thousands of times a second.
Once you have a nucleic acid sequence whose structure allows it to make copies of itself, which is not an outrageous claim in the least, you're off to the races. Small errors here and there arise into secondary functions that convey advantage. Complementary advantages arrange into cooperative organization between different sequences. A sequence that breaks complex organic molecules for energy is not hard, and neither is one that uses that energy to build phosphate links, but when put together you get ATP, and the energy cycle that speeds up this whole process by orders of magnitude.
Wrap those two sequences into a bilipid layer with three other sequences, one that builds lipid bilayers, one that specializes in copying one another, and another still that specializes in recognizing necessary building blocks and transporting them through the lipid bilayer and you have all you need for a proto-cell, proto-mitochondria. All that can happen comparatively simply, and entirely randomly, and it only needs to happen once, because once it does it replicates and spreads across the world. All other complexity since then, from proteins, to regulation, and intra cellular cooperation and specialization arises effortlessly, over time, from that.
You can choose to refuse to see this because you believe it is incompatible with god, and you prefer god. But it's real, and denying it doesn't change it. So all you're really doing is blinding you to god's greatest accomplishment, for even more impressive than making man is making the systems from which man arises without intervention.
kinda like give a monkey a typewriter and infinite time and eventually he will randomly type out the entire dictionary. How did eyes develop if they didn't know there was something to see? I don't buy your post.
Ok, let's explain the eye. Let's agree that there needs to be a stepwise process; From something stupidly simple, to something profoundly complex. It has to be stepwise, it can't just be "well, light sensitive cells exist, and a inverted curved lensed organ is better" because goddamn it, you need to go from 'a' to 'B C D E F' before you get to 'G'.
If you hate that, here's a modern TED explanation, but Dawkins honestly does a better job.
It all starts with light sensitive cells.
Unsurprising, and not just because it's a thing that exists, but photons interact with electron distribution across complex molecules and a protein whose confirmation is altered slightly by photon interaction is going to be a regular occurrence and all it takes is one which is very sensitive to this effect to imagine basic utility arising from it. Photosynthesis is based on protein interaction with light and it's a few small step from light = food to light = an eye.
These light sensitive proteins fire off I'm getting close to food, and when they aren't, I'm moving away from food. Why? Well I don't know that, but it's true. I don't know that more light means easier photosynthesis, which is good for me because I photosynthesize (or maybe because I eat photosynthesizes)
So next I group these proteins in strategic locations - more light towards my front, less light in my back, now I understand direction
And then I curve it inward so I can identify precise direction
Then it curves so much that it starts to close in on itself, which ought to be terrible, but actually I'm getting closer and closer to a pin hole lens
But now I have this cavity and I want to keep gunk from getting in so I close it off with a transparent cover
But covers don't have to be uniform, oops, mine has different thicknesses at different parts -- actually, one version of that is a lens, wow that's awesome.
But that lens is only good for one direction. Oh well, I'll just use these structural cells to hold it precisely in place... oh wait, what it those structural cells flex and alter the shape of my lens, now I can focus at distance.
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.
Self replicating nucleic acids are all you need to start this process, and yes, all you need for that are nucleic acids, energy, and time. And not only was there plenty of time, billions of years, but the interactions at this scale are occurring then and now tens of thousands of times a second.
Once you have a nucleic acid sequence whose structure allows it to make copies of itself, which is not an outrageous claim in the least, you're off to the races. Small errors here and there arise into secondary functions that convey advantage. Complementary advantages arrange into cooperative organization between different sequences. A sequence that breaks complex organic molecules for energy is not hard, and neither is one that uses that energy to build phosphate links, but when put together you get ATP, and the energy cycle that speeds up this whole process by orders of magnitude.
Wrap those two sequences into a bilipid layer with three other sequences, one that builds lipid bilayers, one that specializes in copying one another, and another still that specializes in recognizing necessary building blocks and transporting them through the lipid bilayer and you have all you need for a proto-cell, proto-mitochondria. All that can happen comparatively simply, and entirely randomly, and it only needs to happen once, because once it does it replicates and spreads across the world. All other complexity since then, from proteins, to regulation, and intra cellular cooperation and specialization arises effortlessly, over time, from that.
You can choose to refuse to see this because you believe it is incompatible with god, and you prefer god. But it's real, and denying it doesn't change it. So all you're really doing is blinding you to god's greatest accomplishment, for even more impressive than making man is making the systems from which man arises without intervention.
kinda like give a monkey a typewriter and infinite time and eventually he will randomly type out the entire dictionary. How did eyes develop if they didn't know there was something to see? I don't buy your post.
Ok, let's explain the eye. Let's agree that there needs to be a stepwise process; From something stupidly simple, to something profoundly complex. It has to be stepwise, it can't just be "well, light sensitive cells exist, and a inverted curved lensed organ is better" because goddamn it, you need to go from 'a' to 'B C D E F' before you get to 'G'.
So let's do that.
I know Richard Dawkins is an ass, but here he is as a much younger self explaining just that, long before he became a jaded asshat filled with malice.
If you hate that, here's a modern TED explanation, but Dawkins honestly does a better job.
It all starts with light sensitive cells.
Unsurprising, and not just because it's a thing that exists, but photons interact with electron distribution across complex molecules and a protein whose confirmation is altered slightly by photon interaction is going to be a regular occurrence and all it takes is one which is very sensitive to this effect to imagine basic utility arising from it. Photosynthesis is based on protein interaction with light and it's a few small step from light = food to light = an eye.
These light sensitive proteins fire off I'm getting close to food, and when they aren't, I'm moving away from food. Why? Well I don't know that, but it's true. I don't know that more light means easier photosynthesis, which is good for me because I photosynthesize (or maybe because I eat photosynthesizes)
So next I group these proteins in strategic locations - more light towards my front, less light in my back, now I understand direction
And then I curve it inward so I can identify precise direction
Then it curves so much that it starts to close in on itself, which ought to be terrible, but actually I'm getting closer and closer to a pin hole lens
But now I have this cavity and I want to keep gunk from getting in so I close it off with a transparent cover
But covers don't have to be uniform, oops, mine has different thicknesses at different parts -- actually, one version of that is a lens, wow that's awesome.
But that lens is only good for one direction. Oh well, I'll just use these structural cells to hold it precisely in place... oh wait, what it those structural cells flex and alter the shape of my lens, now I can focus at distance.
Oh my, I have an eye.