Agnostic's Corner (Is God real?)

But my guess is even those "simple" organisms which preceded "LUCA" were surprisingly complex. Unless in the future scientists can provide evidence of some preceding organism which could have actually functioned while being extremely basic (i.e. not containing a vast amount of DNA and thousands of proteins, etc)

I've always been a creationist even when evolution was discussed in primary school. Here are some Christian resources on creation:










 
As an agnostic who fence sits on the existence of god I cannot see how we got to where we are today without a creator because even if you assume the big bang was the starting point (leaving aside for a minute the infinite regression paradox) all the other occurrences after that still don't make sense.

Scientists now believe that even the first single celled organisms that they can trace back to had hugely complex DNA with a vast amount of information programmed into it. That is the equivalent of saying that the first painting a child ever painted the first time they picked up a brush was copying perfectly the Mona Lisa. My understanding of science is pretty basic but to me it just doesn't compute that the starting point is already so complex in an organic system that wasn't designed by a creator. The counter argument to this is that there were even simpler organisms before "LUCA".


But my guess is even those "simple" organisms which preceded "LUCA" were surprisingly complex. Unless in the future scientists can provide evidence of some preceding organism which could have actually functioned while being extremely basic (i.e. not containing a vast amount of DNA and thousands of proteins, etc) then the whole story does not make sense.

You are right to point out a dilemma there. If life existed very early on in the planet's history, in a cell form with RNA/DNA/microtubules etc. (which seems to be the case) and given the extreme complexity of those structures, there could not have been enough time for evolutionary processes to form such life on earth. The idea then is that life originated much earlier in the history of the universe, and spread via impact events. (panspermia) Where that leaves God and creation idk, but it's an alternative explanation at least!

There's also the notion that some information can transfer from one eon of the universe to the next, which gives you all the time you need, and the possibility that the universe itself evolves and has some form of evolved (?) proto-concsiousness built into it?


 
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