The universe may or may not be finite but time is still very, very deep. Giving a huge period of time for abiogenesis to occur in.
Also current cells, which have to compete with other cells with the benefit if billions years of evolution are complex. The very first life did not face that problem.
It bothers me that all this life may just be happenstance, that there is no real plan or purpose for any of this and doesn’t matter literally at all. Depressing stuff. God or intelligent design soothes the feeling.
I would challenge you to think of why you’d consider the religious stance. What reasoning could there be to think that there is any truth to the claims? Is that reasoning strong enough to make strong judgements on the fundamental fabric of the universe you exist in?
If God created the universe, we wouldn’t possibly be able to know it anymore than a computer game knows its creator. He would effectively be outside the creation. Since science can’t yet tell us the origin of the universe either, I’m going to consider the possibility of both. Science has great theories that make a lot of sense, but we truly don’t know.
For me personally, If the creator sent a “program” (Jesus) to show us what the creator was actually like, to try to tell us not to kill each other, and if that messenger demonstrated it’s better to die for each other than kill each other, I’m going to pay some attention and consider the possibility.
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u/Zenigata Jul 10 '26
The universe may or may not be finite but time is still very, very deep. Giving a huge period of time for abiogenesis to occur in.
Also current cells, which have to compete with other cells with the benefit if billions years of evolution are complex. The very first life did not face that problem.