This sounds like a common argument for God's existence / religion being true, the watchmaker's analogy or teleological argument I believe they're called
While I can kind of see things arising without God's design and the argument has been critiqued by plenty of people, it also does feel persuasive to me as you can also kind of look at something like the eye and realize that it looks like a favorable "jump" in evolution would have had to happen all at once that is unlikely. With some things in life, we see them improve slowly over time, but with evolutionary theory some of these things happen less gradually and it's harder to look at them as developing via evolution over time
I feel like Christians have yet to articulate this in better detail, there appear to be things that are clearly "designed" and it seems hard to think of evolution as having created such "perfect" conditions. Like our ecosystem where one insect feasts on a plant and then an animal feasts on the insect, there's so much give and take that just seems improbably balanced
I would argue that evolution is the only way to explain such "perfect" conditions. If you take a look at a change in a gene via individual mutation (this is what drives evolution after all) and take a simple example... a species of animal that lives on nuts. They have adapted thumbs with sharp strong claws for getting into these nuts. Now via normal gene behavior it mutates and gives an even sharper longer claw for getting into nuts - but there's a downside, this longer claw makes it harder for them to run away from a natural predator. So any animal born with this new sharper claw doesn't live to reproduce and thus that gene mutation ends with them. Now you have the same gene mutate that gives them instead a stronger but shorter claw and they can now escape their natural predator with ease as well as get into their nuts easier - with evolution this new gene becomes the norm. Now take that same concept into hugely more complex things like eyes and expand that out now millions of years and indeed you can see how the human eye, for example, gradually came to be. This is happening to all genes at the same time so many changes are gradually happening all at once - which is also a balance to factor in. The genes propagate out through the ideal "perfect" conditions naturally - no designer needed. This not only makes sense to an atheist like myself but it provides a huge sense of wonder and awe at the natural universe we live in.
This sounds like a common argument for God's existence / religion being true, the watchmaker's analogy or teleological argument I believe they're called
While I can kind of see things arising without God's design and the argument has been critiqued by plenty of people, it also does feel persuasive to me as you can also kind of look at something like the eye and realize that it looks like a favorable "jump" in evolution would have had to happen all at once that is unlikely. With some things in life, we see them improve slowly over time, but with evolutionary theory some of these things happen less gradually and it's harder to look at them as developing via evolution over time
I feel like Christians have yet to articulate this in better detail, there appear to be things that are clearly "designed" and it seems hard to think of evolution as having created such "perfect" conditions. Like our ecosystem where one insect feasts on a plant and then an animal feasts on the insect, there's so much give and take that just seems improbably balanced
I look at nature and I see God's hand and fingerprints everywhere.
I would argue that evolution is the only way to explain such "perfect" conditions. If you take a look at a change in a gene via individual mutation (this is what drives evolution after all) and take a simple example... a species of animal that lives on nuts. They have adapted thumbs with sharp strong claws for getting into these nuts. Now via normal gene behavior it mutates and gives an even sharper longer claw for getting into nuts - but there's a downside, this longer claw makes it harder for them to run away from a natural predator. So any animal born with this new sharper claw doesn't live to reproduce and thus that gene mutation ends with them. Now you have the same gene mutate that gives them instead a stronger but shorter claw and they can now escape their natural predator with ease as well as get into their nuts easier - with evolution this new gene becomes the norm. Now take that same concept into hugely more complex things like eyes and expand that out now millions of years and indeed you can see how the human eye, for example, gradually came to be. This is happening to all genes at the same time so many changes are gradually happening all at once - which is also a balance to factor in. The genes propagate out through the ideal "perfect" conditions naturally - no designer needed. This not only makes sense to an atheist like myself but it provides a huge sense of wonder and awe at the natural universe we live in.