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Submitted by noor on Thu, 2007-03-01 23:23.

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Doesn't it seem to take much more faith to belief that this universe just came into being instead of being created by a divine power

No. There is plenty of proof for the scientific view of the universe, please study cosmology. For example, the Doppler effect is when a wave's frequency decreases as the source moves farther away. Measuring the Doppler effect on far away galaxies shows us that the galaxies are expanding. Scientists have used redshifts and general relativity to conclude that the universe was once all together in a singularity. So far there has never been any similar proof of a skydaddy.

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and that something so complex as a cell could be formed at random?

It took time for one-celled organisms to evolve from molecules. There were probably a million other early forms of life that failed to develop into cells. (And no, evolution is not random chance.)

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And that these complex cells turned into complex organs which turned into complex systems which turned into complex and functioning organisms also by random interaction of cells.

If my lottery ticket is the winning one out of one million others, is it a miracle that I won?

And it's not random interaction. Molecules attach to only a few kinds and don't with the rest.

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Even if there was some primitive self-replicating ribozyme, how could it replicate in such a path as to form an organism.

They interact with others and form combinations and some of those combinations are suitable for life. There were probably a million that didn't.

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What could direct it in such a way that it would "evolve" into an organism other than God.

Again, "I don't know how it happened, so God did it."

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So you see it is not unreasonable to believe in God; in fact it is more logical than not believing in God.

No. God does not have to be the only explanation as to how we came about.

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No one can "prove" that God exists, just as no one can prove that he does not exist. The difference is that one can provide evidence for his existence in intelligent design, whereas there is no evidence that God does not exist.

If you're going to talk about intelligent design, then check these out:

God's Greatest Mistakes and The Atheism of Astronomy: A Refutation Of The Theory That The Universe Is Governed By Intelligence

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