| kevin the wiiite said: Oh, and another argument I just remembered. Evolution, if true, clearly relies on improbable events occuring repeatedly over and over again, as it's never been documented in action in the few thousand years of recored history. The second law of thermodynamics and laws of statistical probability aren't exclusive to their fields. Scientists just like to suppress them. Everything in the world gravitates towards equilibrium and states of higher probability, a direct counterpoint to evolution, which relies on constant gravitation towards the improbable. Cars break, glaciers melt, deserts grow, crops die, but somehow fish sprout legs and walk. Please if anyone has a good response to this I'm trying to be rational here. I'm not the religious nut a lot of Atheists think I am. Why else would I rely on pascal's wager for my faith?
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Discovery channel has some interesting programs on how the theory of evolution has evolved since Darwin.
Actually the DNA that makes fins in fish is pretty much the same DNA that makes arms and legs in animals. Switches in DNA that control when certain DNA sequences are active control how limbs turn out. It's all in the timing. 3,500,000,000 years is a lot of time for some random change to go in the right direction. Natural disasters helped a lot to cull off the weaker traits and give evolution a boost.
Ofcourse if you believe god is responsible for meteor impacts, ice ages etc, then yes you could say he's guiding evolution. Maybe we're not his desired end product since natural disasters still occur :)
I don't believe in any higher power, heck I don't believe my own eyes a lot of the time (study some cognitive sience and you'll see what I mean)
