Originally posted by Da PittmanI understand your conclusion that a lack of alternative explanations does not, in itself, constitute evidence for the existence of a designer. Just because science cannot presently explain the origins of life (for example), does not negate the possibility of future discoveries. Or does it?
The only proof that you try to give that God is real that is not in the Bible is to say look around you at the complexity of the universe and that it has to have a divine creator. This is not proof but a lack of knowledge, not just on your part but on all of humanity. Just because we don’t understand the universe doesn’t mean that it was made by some all powerful being and it is only complex to us because we don’t understand it just as a car or plane would be to a caveman. This would be beyond their greatest minds but is common knowledge to us because we have the understanding just as the technology a 1000 years from now will be unheard of now. So what you site as proof is nothing but a lack of knowledge, you have no proof other than conjecture and speculation.You say that the greatest minds can not figure it out and I would say so what, the greatest minds thought the Earth was flat and the universe revolved around the Earth.
Intelligent people often make judgments based on the preponderance of the evidence. While the failure of a secular origins theory does not constitute evidence, the failure of EVERY secular origins theory has to make us wonder.
Walter Bradley, famed PhD in materials science, and author of “Origins Of Life And Evolution Of The Biosphere”, said the following with regard to the plausibility of divine design:
“If there isn't a natural explanation, and there doesn't seem to be the potential of finding one, then I believe it is appropriate to look at a supernatural explanation. I think that's the most reasonable inference based on the evidence.” [“The Case For Faith”; Lee Strobel, p.151]
When one concludes, as Bradley has, that the spontaneous generation of life would require the suspension of known physical laws, then science has truly arrived at a dead end on this issue. Random Chance fails the probability test in that, even if secular Big Bangers are correct and the universe is some 14 billion years old, this is still insufficient time for life to have spontaneously erupted on earth. Chemical Affinity fails the actuality test, in that the sequencing of base proteins is unrelated to their theoretical attractions. Self-Ordering Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics fails the analogy test, in that non-biological processes do not translate into the extraordinary complexities of the biological sphere. The Space Seed theory – the idea that life was planted here by aliens, or fell from the sky in a comet or other cosmic body – lacks even the most marginal fiber of supporting evidence. The Ocean Vent theory fails the information test, since it does not answer the fundamental question “How did DNA information originate?” And of course, Life From Clay, as proposed by Scottish chemist A.G. Cairns-Smith was ultimately rejected (even by him) as utterly impossible, given that crystalline formations lack the requisite complexity of biological forms.
Barring the improbability of a scientific solution to the origins question, one must begin to ask if perhaps life began in some unique, unrepeatable way. Unfortunately, an unrepeatable occurrence would negate the possibility of scientific confirmation, since that which is not repeatable cannot be scientifically investigated.
But if there is likely no scientific solution waiting to be discovered, as Bradley suggests, and if science itself is incapable of dealing with the unrepeatable, then what is a rational person to do? Since scientific laws seem insufficient to the task, perhaps metaphysical laws might have more success. As Dr. William Lane Craig states in his landmark address on divine origins, the first law of metaphysics states: “Whatever begins to exist, has a cause.” Christians believe this cause is God.
http://www.leestrobel.com/videoserver/video.php?clip=strobelT1203