This week we finish our journey from nothing to how we reached where we find ourselves today. In this episode we look at how a Creator is the best explanation of how we went from lifelessness to the abundant, diverse life that we see all around us. How do we recognize the hand of intelligence verses the natural processes of time, matter and chance?
“Once the initial stroke of luck has been granted – and the anthropic principle most decisively grants it to us – natural selection takes over: and natural selection is emphatically not a matter of luck… Nevertheless, it may be that the origin of life is not the only major gap in the evolutionary story that is bridged by sheer luck, anthropically justified. For example, my colleague, Mark Ridley in Mendel’s Demon…has suggested that the origin of the eukaryotic cell (our kind of cell, with a nucleus and various other complicated features such as mitochondria, which are not present in bacteria) was an even more momentous, difficult and statistically improbable step than the origin of life. The origin of consciousness might be another major gap whose bridging was of the same order of improbability. One-off events like this might be explained by the anthropic principle, along the following lines…” Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 2006, pp. 168-169
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The Fatal Flaw in Origin-of-Life Experiments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVygGzykHHg
Our DNA Proves We Were Designed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5gKoyDtI9Q
Improbable Planet: How Earth Became Humanity's Home: Hugh Ross: 9780801075438: Amazon.com: Books
