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There's nothing magic about evolution. At heart it's just very complex chemistry.


Could you explain this further? "chemical complexity" that apparently isn't "magic" can occur and is responsible for what we observe around us....that somehow all this arrived from ....single celled organisms?? that somehow had all the necessary information for life itself....(how?) to begin the process of evolution which seemed to have a mind of its own, life and intellect. All that was required was just billions of years to allow this to come to fruition...that somehow everything can be traced back to chance or an inanimate process? Something that we were not there to see ourselves, with no known record of this (in oral or recorded history) other than what the modern day scientists are telling us. If that's not magic or miraculous? I don't know what is.

First of all, you or myself do not know if all fossils are transitional forms. Again, a fossil does not tell you anything other than it "died". The scientist is the one placing the label, not the fossil.

God must of done it? That is based on my "faith", yes. But in plain observation shows me that random chance and lots of time just don't cut it, rather I see intent, intelligence and life in everything around me reproducing after its own kind, as it has always done through history. All require the input of life in order to begin and all that life produces to survive and be sustained. To remove one of these necessities? Would not enable life to exist, let alone be sustained. Everything is somehow in a state of balance, perfectly orchestrated to compliment the other in such a way as to make even the most hardened atheist wonder....Take one of these life necessities away and watch what happens to everything else. It dies! Everything requires the other. How do you explain that these chance beginnings are responsible for this?

All this can be put down to some lucky chance random processes, with no real intent or intelligence/life/purpose? I'll stick with my belief of a divine author/creator thank you, it makes so much more sense when you consider all things in life require an author and producer as a rule.

Keep searching, that's good. It is healthy to do that, regardless of belief. But I think one should be careful also not to be so cocksure with this opposing view of denying any sign that might point to possible design at all costs because one might not wish to accept the implications. One can be willing to hold onto evolution at all costs, irrespective of anything. Is it really worth gambling with the possiblity of a soul to do that? Seriously, if you guys are right, nobody wins in the end, death. But if we are right? That holds very serious and possible eternal consequences and it amazes me that people hold so much faith in fallible human beings (scientists) who are constantly changing their ideas or contradicting eachother (either on the same side or opposing side) and have yet to answer the riddles of the universe and make ongoing human errors throughout.

Seriously, the world around us is far more than we can imagine and to put it down to chance, based on everything around us, is not exacty logical either!

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The list of solved scientific mysteries is nearly endless, and not one of them has ended with, "Well, what do you know, God did do it!"


I'm interested in hearing what "mysteries" have been solved and how you're so certain there's been no hand of the divine involved. I'm not sure whether the evolution scientist is even CLOSE to having the answers, let alone the layperson. They can have guesses based on their observations, but their answers unfortunately lean toward bias and the fact that their opinions seem to be the only thing evolving - doesn't lend your comments here much validility! However, it maybe a comforting thought!