2012-03-12, 09:53 AM
VerrKol Wrote:Evolution makes a lot of sense logically but the dirty little secret is that the likelihood of randomly creating any life, much less life as sophisticated as humans, is a statistical impossibility. As in (1/10)^2,680 power http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...-ancestor/
I'm not saying Creationism is correct because I think its pointless to debate such questions, but evolution explains very little about how life evolved on Earth. Personally, it seems much more likely aliens seeded the planet with early organic material or it hitched a ride on a meteor. It's just silly to blindly accept evolution as an explanation for anything.
When it comes down to it, evolution is the only thing we have close to a logical explanation.
I have the perfect video response for that
. [video=youtube;oaAdXdkiifM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaAdXdkiifM[/video]
The likelihood of all of the atoms forming together in that exact manner (to form the miracle dust bunny) is somewhere similar to that number you posted.
and natural selection isn't all random. It's the adaptation of life on the planet over time to survive in harsh environments. Sometimes random genetic mutations, that benefit a species, can happen increasing the speed of evolution. That however is rare like stated in the article.
Not surprised you left this out of your post from that same articles. The creationist idea has more than double the odds against it.
"Theobald also tested the creationist idea that humans arose in their current form and have no evolutionary ancestors.The statistical analysis showed that the independent origin of humans is "an absolutely horrible hypothesis," Theobald said, adding that the probability that humans were created separately from everything else is 1 in 10 to the 6,000th power."