The Problem with Christians

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Any ideas how sophisticated, self replicating DNA codes wrote themselves from a bunch of random chemicals?

First off: if we can't explain it, does that mean we must default to your god did it?

Secondly, it happened through a series of cascading chemical events, from simple molecules up to modern DNA. It's very easy to make the process look impossible simply by focusing on the modern, sophisticated products of this, but to do so ignores the process, which is most likely made of many steps and occurred over millions of years. In fact, experimental data shows that the building blocks of DNA form naturally in certain circumstances: this is, you might notice, about one hundred percent more testable, repeatable evidence than there has ever been for any god.

Lastly, I'd like to pick up on your comment about reversing entropy, because I think you have a misunderstanding of that term. See, entropy applies to closed systems, and the Earth is not that. The Earth is within a closed system though, which is the universe, and taken on that scale, what we have is an extremely small incidence of an increase in localized order within a much larger system that doesn't decrease in entropy because of this. None of that is precluded within our understanding of entropy, and in fact it's even debatable whether life counts as a decrease in entropy anyway, given what life tends to do as it evolves in complexity. Look at our big-ass cities and tell me life hasn't resulted in disorder greater than would exist on Earth without it.