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This level of complexity and sophistication somehow "randomly happened", they said

I’m guessing you are saying it is hard to believe that evolution creates incrementally greater complexity over billions of years?

Reminder that our best estimates of spacetime curvature Omega puts it very close to 1.0: the universe is very close to flat, so if the universe is indeed not spatially infinite (possible) it is at least 100s of times larger in radius than the observable universe, which contains about 10^21 stars. [1]

If the universe is spatially infinite, then all possible quantum states exist in infinite copies. So yeah, “it happened randomly” is not absurd. In fact, I find it a bit strange that any educated person would think otherwise.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe

That level of mental gymnastics helps a lot of people sleep at night.

If it was designed by a creator then who or what created that creator? Something has to begin out of nothing!

The point of a creator is that it exists outside the laws of physics. Necessarily this makes the creature extra-universal, so this line of logic doesn’t necessarily hold imo. We can’t claim to know any rules outside of our universe, because we learn entirely by experimenting within said universe.

If you don't know who built the pyramids, it doesn't mean it is a result of random amount of random matter being randomly thrown on random times, I have never seen someone who suspected that Pyramids were randomly built, you would only think that someone who claim Pyramids were randomly arranged of randomly shaped in blocks to be in psychological denial.

And Pyramids are way more simple than human brain.

Well then why just brain? I would have loved the ability of flying like birds or swimming underwater like fish or running like horses. These features seem to be not as complex as brain. The creator could have added these features to the most powerful creation on the planet.

well, "was selected-for over trillions of iterations", they said, "... by algorithms which were themselves selected-for"

"randomly" makes it sounds like some kind of miracle!

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