(November 7, 2012 at 9:16 am)Hitch96 Wrote: (The reason I'm an AGNOSTIC atheist is because I don't fully understand how we could've gotten here by chance. Of course the universe is big enough for that to happen, but then again, I'm only a 16 year old - not Christopher Hitchens.The size of the universe is necessary for us. The universe was too hot for life to exist before the Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago. As the universe is expanding, in a few more billion years it'll become permanently too cold to support life. The size of the universe is necessary, it's not an accident or chance.
Belief that life self-starts requires a kind of blind-faith in physics. I hold to this blind faith idea because we don't have to know the "how" to observe that life began on this planet at exactly the right time 3 billion years ago. It didn't take 6 billion years for life to begin, it didn't even take 6 million years - as soon as the conditions for life were right it began, that can only mean that there is a reliable mechanism that allows for life to self-start.
None of that means that I don't need a Saviour though ...
