Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
For some reason, all proponents of intelligent design have refused to answer this question of mine:

If it is implausible to suggest that something as complex as life could have arisen by chance, how can you in your right mind suggest that something even more complex than life itself (namely, an intelligent designer who is complex enough not just all lifeforms but the entire universe) just *poof* came out of nowhere by accident?
What an excellent question. The methodology of reverse engineering is fascinating. Problem is a mystery popped up in the midst of the theorem. There are mysteries. Paul in one of his epistles mentioned that he had been shown and mysteries revealed that could not be spoken. Reading your question really stumped me. continuing to read I was struck by how appropriate Delusions response was ("the question is answered by the religious "fact" that god has always existed, that god exists outside of time and space").

Your question is very interesting oneironaut, but Haze really hit it well when he said "We know less than 0.000000000001% of what there is to be known". God is not bound by time. We are. How long have we lived as it relates to timelessness. Your question still changes nothing as it relates to the fact that life here is far too complex to just have occurred. For everything to come together completely (with nothing absent) all at the same time for a cell to develop (with DNA) and for the miracle of life also to come into "being". This shouldn't be ignored.
braddog10 Reviewed by braddog10 on . intelligent design > pure accident I just smoked with my buddy and we were discussing dark matter, multi-dimension theories, and other such things that are way beyond our scale of comprehension... we are both wondering how someone could see the complexity and intricacy of this universe (from clusters of galaxies down to atoms) and believe that there was not some sort of "higher intelligence" behind it, even if the "higher intelligence" simply aligned the big bang and just left us spinning since... this is NOT a Rating: 5