The Watchmakers's Argument basically says that anything that is complex must be designed by a creator, and can't simply evolve on it's own.
However, if you look at life, throughout time life has become more and more complex as it evolved. So, even many Christians accept evolution, and have tried to apply it ad hoc to Creationism.
But I ask, if Christians accept evolution to a degree, why don't we run it into reverse, and see exactly where Creationism fits into the puzzle?
Take man. Right now we are Homo Sapiens, right? We're a pretty complex design, the most intelligent lifeform to ever exist on our planet. But let's devolve down to a simpler form, our ancestor Homo neanderthalensis. Not quite as intelligent as us, but close. Our closest ancestor. Let's simplify the human body a little more, to Homo rhodesiensis. Not quite up to Homo neanderthanensis but still close. I know, I know, yadda, yadda, yadda. We can go all the way back to the original human, Homo habilis, then back to the ancestor we share with gorillas and chimps, Sahelanthropus. From there, let's jump to the Carboniferous period when the first mammals, synapsids, came into being. From there we can go to reptiles, to amphibians, to fish, to algae, clear to the LUA, the Last Universal Ancestor, that existed 3.8 billion years ago. Even from there we can break things down to simpler forms, such as chemicals, to matter created from supernovas, to the hydrogen atoms that made the stars that exploded, clear down to the sub-atomic particles that created the hydrogen.
What am I getting at? If there was a Creator, a god, where exactly did his designs for life come into play? We can take a step-by-step analysis of every lifeform on the Earth today, clear back to when we were just chemicals in a soup. Even farther. Where does God come into all of this? It is perfectly clear that we were not just "created." We came from the evolution of matter in the universe. Particles became atoms, atoms became stars, stars became matter, matter became life, on and on and on. The billions of lifeforms on this planet didn't have a starting point where we break down evolution to a point and then say, "Well, this complex lifeform just popped up out of nowhere, it started out already complex, so a god must have done it." It's not scientifically, naturally or reasonably sound to think that way.
"A universal common ancestor is at least 10 to the 2860 times more probable than having multiple ancestors…"
"A model with a single common ancestor but allowing for some gene swapping among species was... 10 to the 3489 times more probable than the best multi-ancestor model..."
Both quotes from:
Hesman Saey, T. (14 May 2010). "All Modern Life on Earth Derived from Common Ancestor". Discovery News.
As incredible as it can seem to believe, Evolution can explain every step of life that ever existed, and why life is so complex. Creationism cannot.
And that is why I do not believe in a god.
However, if you look at life, throughout time life has become more and more complex as it evolved. So, even many Christians accept evolution, and have tried to apply it ad hoc to Creationism.
But I ask, if Christians accept evolution to a degree, why don't we run it into reverse, and see exactly where Creationism fits into the puzzle?
Take man. Right now we are Homo Sapiens, right? We're a pretty complex design, the most intelligent lifeform to ever exist on our planet. But let's devolve down to a simpler form, our ancestor Homo neanderthalensis. Not quite as intelligent as us, but close. Our closest ancestor. Let's simplify the human body a little more, to Homo rhodesiensis. Not quite up to Homo neanderthanensis but still close. I know, I know, yadda, yadda, yadda. We can go all the way back to the original human, Homo habilis, then back to the ancestor we share with gorillas and chimps, Sahelanthropus. From there, let's jump to the Carboniferous period when the first mammals, synapsids, came into being. From there we can go to reptiles, to amphibians, to fish, to algae, clear to the LUA, the Last Universal Ancestor, that existed 3.8 billion years ago. Even from there we can break things down to simpler forms, such as chemicals, to matter created from supernovas, to the hydrogen atoms that made the stars that exploded, clear down to the sub-atomic particles that created the hydrogen.
What am I getting at? If there was a Creator, a god, where exactly did his designs for life come into play? We can take a step-by-step analysis of every lifeform on the Earth today, clear back to when we were just chemicals in a soup. Even farther. Where does God come into all of this? It is perfectly clear that we were not just "created." We came from the evolution of matter in the universe. Particles became atoms, atoms became stars, stars became matter, matter became life, on and on and on. The billions of lifeforms on this planet didn't have a starting point where we break down evolution to a point and then say, "Well, this complex lifeform just popped up out of nowhere, it started out already complex, so a god must have done it." It's not scientifically, naturally or reasonably sound to think that way.
"A universal common ancestor is at least 10 to the 2860 times more probable than having multiple ancestors…"
"A model with a single common ancestor but allowing for some gene swapping among species was... 10 to the 3489 times more probable than the best multi-ancestor model..."
Both quotes from:
Hesman Saey, T. (14 May 2010). "All Modern Life on Earth Derived from Common Ancestor". Discovery News.
As incredible as it can seem to believe, Evolution can explain every step of life that ever existed, and why life is so complex. Creationism cannot.
And that is why I do not believe in a god.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
