Thread:TheSquidychicken/@comment-31308946-20170525193032/@comment-26322120-20170609005211

Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: Which was formed under incredible circumstances, in which the right molecules were present in the right part of the ocean at the right time with the right atmospheric composition. Likely due to a series of lightning strikes on this one part of the sea, molecules combined to form complex molecules, which were linked into larger molecular groups, which eventually formed a rudimentary single-celled organism.

Let those who may call it chance. The odds of this happening randomly are incredibly small. For myself and the majority of the religious people I know, this is God's presence in the creation of life on Earth, influencing the occurrence of natural processes. God isn't an explanation to be set against science in any way. They go together. In that sense, science is the study of how God works, in a way.

And damnit, you drew me in. Ah well.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 10:31, June 8, 2017 (UTC)

The chances of having just the right conditions for abiogenesis to occur at any specific point in space and time on average are statistically negligible, true; However given that, 1. The chances of those conditions not occurring anywhere in all of space and time are also statistically negligible, and 2. The only place where life can comprehend its own existence is where life already exists in the first place, I would argue that life existing on Earth is not unlikely.

Mithrandir brings up a good point. I think it would be helpful if we all state our stance on aspects of theism and our reasons. I'll start.

I am atheist-agnostic. This means that I don't believe in any specific God, especially not those of thousand-year-old organized religions, but I am willing to keep an open mind as far as long-term intelligent design. This is because I recognize that under the postulate of logic, there can be no thorough, or even self sufficient explanation to many of the common "existential paradoxes." And if there was an omnipotent God, the universe is so large that it seems unlikely to me they would care, or even know about tiny insignificant humans on tiny insignificant Earth. Most likely they'd be trying to test things on a very large scale, like how different amounts of Dark Energy effect the expansion rate of the universe. I accept basically all scientific laws and theories, including evolution, because they were reached through the Scientific Method, and that is logical to me.