What the Creation Museum did to me

[Cyberman]

The universe was too hot for life to exist before the Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago.

No it wasn't.

As the universe is expanding, in a few more billion years it'll become permanently too cold to support life.

No it won't.

The size of the universe is necessary, it's not an accident or chance.

No-one apart from creationists says it was either.

Belief that life self-starts requires a kind of blind-faith in physics.

Physics is demonstrable, repeatable, predictable, reliable. Know what else shares these properties? Not your god.

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.

So where's the problem? We don't have to know, certainly, but a lot of people would like to know and, to that end, try to find out. We know considerably more than I suspect you'd care to admit.

Incidentally, for a demonstration of "blind faith" in physics, try this for size:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZNpnCd4ZBo?rel=0

(Side note: a few years ago, I demonstrated that experiment to my little niece Rosie, then about seven years old, using her garden swing set. Afterwards, she naturally wanted to have a go herself, so we explained how to do it; whereupon instead of just releasing the heavy swing from in front of her face, she gave it one hell of a hefty push, at which point I grabbed her and yanked her out of the way of what would otherwise be the inevitable.)

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.

Physics and chemistry would like a word with you.

None of that means that I don't need a Saviour though ...

Fine, that's your opinion. It's a sad one, that you think so little of yourself in that way, but it is yours and you are entitled to it. It has nothing to do with the rest of the Universe, which doesn't care what we think.