Hi hooberous,
We can speculate from now to infinity about the "origin of life". For all we know a highly advanced alien civilization synthisized our solar system and everything in it as an experiment. Or we could have been seeded here by a cosmic Johnny Appleseed. We may even just be the charactors in an advanced being's dream and it is all an illusion. The possibilities are endless and all are equally unimportant because they are just mind games and speculations.
For now, most of us are willing to bet on the most widley accepted form of reality that best fits our observable Universe. A clever trickster may be fooling us and all our observations may be phoney but since there is no way to know we just have to work with what we have. Common sense, reason, logic, and clear observations have served us well for many years. Pots of gold do not appear at the rainbow's end so most of us seek money in more conventional ways by working or government hand outs. We can't breath under water unaided so most of us avoid having our heads under there for more than a few minutes. We can't walk through solid rock or stick our hands in hot lava. We don't fly unaided or eat toxic substances in huge amounts because everyone who has tried these things has suffered consequences from not having their basic needs met to being severly injured or by just being dead.
We accept a certain set of tried and true guidelines so we can extend our meager little lives and live as comfortably as possible all based upon these observable facts. I don't claim to know everything (as no human can) and I have never been around hot lava but if I'm told not to touch the hot lava all of my knowledge, observations, and experiences come together to convice me I probably should heed this sound advice. I've seen molten metal from watching welding and when it drips on a piece of wood the wood burns up and I know from other experiences that my hand isn't as tough as a piece of wood. I know what a mild burn feels like from experience and I know what meat looks like when I cook it.......But at this point I am not concerned about how hot lava got hot. Maybe a giant deep in the earth rubs big rocks together with such force that they melt or maybe the fire god melts them with his breath... but all of that is beside the point, it doesn't matter. If you can't see the giant making hot lava then it is just speculation and it doesn't solve any of my problems.
I've already discussed with you in older threads the numerous reasons why the Bible is riddled with illogic, clearly observable falsehoods, and doesn't answer important questions correctly. Other than defending your Biblical God what purpose is served by debating your intellegent design speculations? For example, If your God already knew how to make fish breath under water then why would he make whales and dolphins breath air? Clearly not a very intellent design choice. If land life forms were always intended to live on dry land then why design them to need water? Untold billions of land animals and plants have died over the eons just because they couldn't get water....once again, not a very good design choice. Why design parasites and germs, or genetic defects? These are poor design features. If God is kind and loving why design lifeforms to kill and eat each other?
These questions and design flaws are far more interesting than origin speculating because we can actually find the answers. Which is exactly why the Intellegent Design people avoid talking about the really important aspects of this subject. Evolution really answers these problems much more clearly and logically that I.D. does. Our world only really started to make any sense once evolution was incorperated into the scientific systems used to make observations and draw conclusions.
In short, so what if the odds are a billion to one that chance can make an eye. The fact remains that we have eyes and there are natural explainations for how they got here which tell us much more about eye problems than just.."an intellegent designer made them". The Bible doesn't tell us how to treat eye problems nor even how the eye works but science does. When the Bible was our main knowledge source is it any surprise we were sicker, poorer, suffered more, and died earlier. Since science developed and evolution became a part of biology and medicine our lives have vastly improved. Wouldn't the opposite be the case if evolution were wrong and Intelligent Design were right?
