Rascarin said:
Also, after studying science at college, it seems impossible to me that the sheer complexity of the world happened because of a freak explosion in space. It's too improbable to be chance. The diversity of species, the complexity of DNA, structure of the human body... I cannot see how a huge asplosion can create that.
It's actually quite simple.
First, the Big Bang
wasn't an explosion, it is an expansion, one that is
still happening. We can look out into the sky and see that, not only is every galaxy moving away from the others, they are actually
accelerating. That is the Big Bang,
still happening today.
Now, once all the matter was spread out by the initial expansion and the elections and protons found each other to make hydrogen, gravity caused it to clump together. This is the simplest part, we all know that gravity pulls mass towards other mass. Once each clump acquired enough mass the hydrogen atoms were under enough force to be forced together, initiating fusion. The clumps of matter then became stars.
And inside each star the hydrogen was fusing together to produce elements with more protons and more elections. The most common of which became oxygen, meaning the third most common molecule in the universe is water, made up of one of the created oxygen and two of the original left over hydrogen. (The two more common molecules beings the simple H2 and O2 molecules.)
At the end of the star's natural life they exploded into a supernova spreading those newly created elements outwards, which allowed planets to be created, and often the star would start over in it's fusion process, but smaller in size.
At this point with have a solar system with water and everything needed for life, with a planet with the perfect conditions for abiogenesis, the creation of life from non-life.
And from there Evolution explains the diversity of life very easily.
Now you may be thinking "But they can't know that." but we
can.
As I said at the start, the Big Bang is
still happening and, thanks to the finite speed of light, we can look back and
see the early stages of the universe, we can see every process I've said here
actually happening. The only part we can't see directly is the abiogenesis, which we have incredibly detailed explanations about. Everything else we can still see happening today.
Even if you want to argue that evolution and abiogenesis are wrong, we can still see all the the stellar phenomena. So either the universe is 13 billion years old, or the god who made it really wanted us to
think it was.
And, of course, there are still some questions, like "Where did the matter for the Big Bang first came from?", but that's what science is about. Saying "We don't know what happened there, let's find out."
Now, of course, none of this denies the possibility of a god existing. It could well be that all these processes were guided, even possible that a god made everything 6000 years ago and just had it
look like it was 13 billion years old.
But we don't
need a god to explain anything, science has explained so many things, and there is no reason to think to won't someday explain the rest.
