The idea that life came about by luck is completely absurd, even more so than thinking that a computer chip was created by chance erosion of a silicone wafer in exactly the right pattern.

As I see it life was clearly designed by God.

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BigTTYGothGF 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> As I see it life was clearly designed by God

Yes, wide-bosomed Gaia, foundation of us all, this research is about the manner in which She did it, if it was one birth or two.

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lanstin 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s a big universe and there are a lot of years, so chemical evolution seems like a decent tool for God to use. Much like General Relativity is a more efficient way to rule the world than assigning angels to push the planets thru the sky. And a passing familiarity with birth defects will prove to most hard hearted people that each specific fact of biology is not designed by a loving creator. Unless you believe this messy but gloriously complex universe to be the best of all possible worlds, right up till you lie to your friend, it is difficult to believe whole heartedly in a loving creator.

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rationalist 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not a biblical scholar, but I think the "loving creator" thing was invented by people and not necessarily in the Bible. I'm pretty sure Old Testament God is pretty vengeful.

Theistic Evolution is wide-enough belief, especially with Protestants.

	▲	andrewflnr 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It is definitely in the Bible. Cynically, God seems to swing wildly between mercy and vengeance, but it's clear he would feel justified in a lot more vengeance than he takes but doesn't because he loves people. Less cynically, he's planning for Jesus and salvation the whole time, and sorta trying to keep the evil from getting out of hand with the occasional smiting. You can make the logic work if you want to.
	▲	xkcd1963 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is edging into religious debate, which the guidelines ask people to keep off HN

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margalabargala 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Could you go into why you consider the existence of an invisible (all powerful? Depends which god you mean, you didn't say) being that happens to concern itself with life on Sol's third planet, to be less absurd than what you describe?

Or is that the joke and I'm missing it?

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WelkinFolk 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wish I were so vain as to think I'm so special, surely I could never have happened by chance.

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victorbjorklund 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you reject evolution or do you believe God only created bacteria etc?

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hollywood_court 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which god?

	▲	adzm 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		the Sun

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TacticalCoder 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> As I see it life was clearly designed by God.

Which one? There are so many to choose from...

And what created that God? I know it's turtles all the way down but still want to know.

	▲	wildzzz 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The dogma in many religions is that nothing created God or at least, there's no way to know. He exists outside our time and space. So from our perspective, God has always existed. If you believe that free will is true, then he can see all outcomes of the universe at once. If you don't believe in true free will, he sees the single timeline at once, from the big bang to the heat death of the universe. Personally, I don't believe in any religions. They were all developed before we had a much clearer idea of how our world works and there's just too much folklore mixed in with actual, yet primitive, philosophical discussions to abide by any of it. But like with the simulation theory, we have no way to know what exists outside our time and space so you shouldn't worry. If there is some bored extra dimensional teenager simulating our universe on their GPU, it ultimately doesn't matter because we'll never know.
	▲	prewett 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I believe that according to Catholic and Orthodox thought, God is Being itself. If you're familiar with Plato and Aristotle, God is the Form of Being. If not, I guess you could say God is Being as a noun, or God is where the idea of Being comes from. God exists because he is existence itself. (He is also Life and Love, in the same way)