[ATLian]

>The Bible's creation story might sound far-fetched to some,
>but the evolution theory is even more ludicrous! The Big Bang
>theory assumes that celestial matter already existed in the
>universe, and that was the building blocks of the universe.
>Where is the starting point? What are the chances of a cosmic
>explosion taking place, the flying debris forming into
>perfectly shaped planets, one of which is earth, The earth
>forming an atmosphere with just the right balance of gases to
>support biological life, some microscopic organisms somehow
>surviving the big exlosion which must have been accompanied by
>heat in the order of millions of degrees, these cells somehow
>finding the perfect environmental conditions to survive and
>thrive, and somehow evolving to the millions of plant and
>animal species populating the earth? If you can believe that,
>then you can believe anything!


Americanized,

to you it's absolutely inconceivable that single celled organisms, the simplest living things ever, could have just been created by the right conditions existing. You argue that the cells must have been created by something. Yet, you still have no issue believing that god, the most complex and powerful organism ever, could have created itself, and has always been there. That is just absurd. Remember those paper boats we used to make in primo by folding up a piece of paper? You are like a person who just cannot believe that those paper boats could have created themselves, then turn around and argue that a nuclear powered aircraft carrier carrying 100 planes and enough nuclear warheads to destroy the world 50 times over could have created itself. Hello?????

I know the probability of the stars aligningby themselves is low, but events with low probabilities have been shown to work numerous times. There are some things that have an "impossible chance" of happening, but they do happen.

Think about this - for you to be here, only ONE specific sperm from one specific man had to meet this ONE specific egg from this one specific woman at a perfect time when the eggs was ready for fertilization. If another sperm had hit that egg, or if your sperm hit the egg when it wasn't ready, or if another sperm outsped yours and hit the egg first, or if your mum had a headache, or if your dad used a condom, or if he had decided to masturbate, or if -----, there would be no you right now.

Now when you consider that a man ejaculates about a billion sperm during every sexual encounter, and that people have sex many times with many other peoples over many years before getting this one "correct" woman pregnant, then of course that reduces the probability of what I outlined above (your one sperm hitting the one egg) to inconceivable figures.

To make it more complex - when you count backwards and think of the probability of your folks being born and then meeting to produce you, then your grandfolks being born and then meeting to produce your folks, etc, it even looks bleaker. If your relative in 4,000 BC performed coitus interuptus that one afternoon, you'd not be here. If he had chosen a different chic, you'd not be here. etc etc etc You get my point. For you to be here, those people all had to meet, agree to have sex, and your ancestral sperm is the only one that could have won the race. What I'm saying is it's almost mathematically impossible for you to have been born. But the fact it you were born, meaning that such odds, despite being that low, are conceivable.