This operates under a false assumption; literally almost no one believes it was some "accident". I realize I've made a habit of commenting this same thing on posts talking about this, but it NEEDS to be said.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, when we say it's an "accident" we just mean that it didn't happen through deliberate design. And more importantly, to the OP, I say that the "design" arguments biggest flaw is that while it claims complexity indicates design, it's simple enough to counter that by saying "why design something so utterly imperfect?" If nature were perfect, then I would yield more easily to the design argument. So, linking complexity to design is a MASSIVE leap in logic.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Everyone can see you voted up your own comment, you know.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So? If they give you the option, why shouldn't you do it? I'm demonstrating my confidence in what I'm saying :-P I voted yours up to. You're welcome!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The nature you see now took billions of years of development, trials and errors. Starting from a chaotic beginning and life still going through hell to survive.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I thought about it once, then realised that a supreme being is harder to create 'by accident' than what we have now, so I'm just gonna go ahead and believe in the supreme being, but still not discount the plausibility of the 'accident'.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Non-religious people: Sometimes you look at nature and wonder how some people //actually// believe a magic man in the sky just poofed it up, and that factual, reliable, **empirical** science is just all bullshit, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Most religious people do believe in empirical science and no one believes god is a sky daddy anymore. If a God were to exist he'd have to be outside the universe.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It makes me feel more special to think that I (and all other things in the world) am here against some really ridiculous odds, in which evolution has played such a huge part of who we are and how our bodies are so well adapted. I also wonder how creationists explain evolutionary throwbacks such as wisdom teeth, appendixes and the way our eyes are developed (essentially they are the wrong way around). This makes me feel more significant than if we were 'designed' by a higher being, but that's probably just the evolutionary biology student in me...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But if the accident didn't happen, we wouldn't be here to know that it didn't happen. That's why this arguement doesn't work for me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago