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The Case of the Mysterious Camel.
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In any case, you can keep playing the "but how did that happen" game with evolution until you realize that you are now saying that at one point there were NO organisms. Then you must go on to say that at one point the earth evolved from nothing. At this point you start talking about singularity. You start talking about the evolution of the universe.
You are now not only arguing the idea of HOW things came to be, but are faced with the question of "why" do things evolve in this way. At this point, you have a faith in evolution. A faith that says that life is inevitable and that creation is the default that the universe (and every conceiveable universe) gives rise to. This is also where a creationist has a very simple answer. A creationist answers the question with "God." and is done. An atheist does not have an answer at this point.
I hope that answers your question of where I am coming from. It is important to note that you can be scientific and make intelligent arguments and still believe in God. I find it ignorant, weather you believe in God or not, to act like there are no rational arguments for the existance of God. Science has never, and can never disprove the idea of a God.
I always thought that every other guy who supported evolution was of the idea that it was "chance" that life first existed =) The whole primordial soup idea, I guess. We're only able to question life because the conditions happened to be right here. If conditions happened to be right elsewhere, someone else *might* have evolved to be sentient enough to question life elsewhere. (Or conditions never became right and no life ever exists.) Not that I can prove that this is what happened, sadly =/
Kinda' like infinite monkeys with infinite time on a typewriter but with tonnes of matter, tonnes of variety of matter and tonnes of time.
As for "why", I subscribe to that "survival of the fittest" belief and, again, tonnes of time and tonnes of climate change led to tonnes of competition, tonnes of isolation and tonnes of biodiversity.
I can't prove this but I'm pretty sure all those fancy-schmancy biologists, people-who-dig-for-animal-bones and other bio-sciency people have worked hard over a long period of time to understand life can do it; I'm more interested in my computer and programming =x
And, as for this whole God stuff; not to be disrespectful but I do not believe in argumentum ad ignorantiam. Lack of proof otherwise does not imply that it is so. I believe that assertions put forward should have some proof before we can talk about its truthfulness; not that assertions put forward are true until we can disprove it.
Still, I do not want to engage in debate about religion; it never ends well for anyone and only serves to make everyone bitter to some degree.
Weird, though..
Creationism + Evolution, haha.
Something like..
"God created the first animals; the animals evolved into humans" ?
But I thought the Bible says that God created man, like, right out from the start? o.0