- Creation. I believe that God created the heavens and the earth. Looking at the scientific evidence, I think it takes just as much (if not more) faith to believe that all the things that needed to happen in order for life to exist came by coincidence. The odds are so heavily against it, it's pretty ridiculous. While I understand why people would only believe what they can see and rely on that extremely slim chance over believing in an unseen supernatural being, I think it is more likely that creation had a creator.
This is the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy, with a little of the law of large numbers thrown in. You're looking at it as if life was an end goal that everything was leading towards, and you're acting as if human life as we know it were somehow special or significant. Neither of these are safe assumptions.
There are a very large number of planets in the universe and the universe has been around for a very long time. There's no reason to assume that we are in any way special.
Or, to put it another way, it's the difference between hearing that Alan Smith of Warwickshire has won the lottery and saying "Oh my God! But the chances against that are 14 million to 1! It's a miracle!" and realising that with the number of people who play the lottery,
someone wins almost every week. The point being that had it not been Alan who won but instead Stephanie Davis of Berkshire you'd still be saying "Oh my God! But the chances against that are 14 million to 1! It's a miracle!".
If the Earth were different, if the laws of physics were different, it'd be just as significant a sequence of events as those that led to us.
To take it even further, what you're actually doing is making an argument for a deterministic universe, governed by a God who micromanages absolutely everything. Think how much faith it must take to believe that, right from the beginning of the universe to now, all the things that happened to cause me to type this sentence happened by coincidence! That
can't be true, right? I mean, I had to be a fan of this game. I had to join the message board and read this thread. Before that, computers had to be invented. My parents had to meet. The particular sperm and egg which created me had to come together. And so on, all the way back to the beginning of the universe.
And God would have to micromanage everything. That sentence would convey exactly the same meaning had there been a "just" in front of the "think". And yet there isn't. What are the chances of that being a coincidence? Astronomical, by the thinking you're describing.
If you can see why a micromanaged deterministic universe doesn't really make sense, then I hope you can see why your reasoning about the existence of life doesn't actually imply a creator.
