| padib said: It could, but it is highly unlikely. If I see a drawing in the middle of nowhere, say a picture on a barren beach, will I assume it came from random unintelligent processes? You know the answer to that. You would have to make a serious effort to deny the obvious in order to convince yourself that that picture was not produced by a printer. |
Drawings, by definitions, are made by painters...I know the "designer" argument with the painter, builder, designer, etc. But I always thought it was terrible because it only works if you use man-made objects...which obviously have creators.
Anyway, you have no idea what's unlikely. The universe is unbelievably huge. Estimates say that there are nearly 8.8 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone. And there are estimated to be over 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Not the entire universe, just the observable part. And that's just within the extremely tiny time zone that humanity is able to observe, which is only a fraction of the universe's actual age.
And that's just our universe. No one knows how many other universes exist (if any) and how long they've been in existence. The numbers could literally reach into infinity...at which point, even the most unlikeliest happenings would be inevitable.
I mean, how big/old would you require the universe to be before something like life becomes a fair possibility? I haven't done the math, but I don't see anything unlikely about it.
