CaliforniaSun
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....matter and space just happen to exist, and always have existed, nobody knows why; and that the matter, behaving in certain fixed ways, has just happened, by a sort of fluke, to produce creatures like ourselves who are able to think. By one chance in a thousand something hit our sun and made it produce the planets; and by another thousandth chance the chemicals necessary for life, and the right temperature, occurred on one of these planets, and so some of the matter on this earth came alive; and then, by a very long series of chances, the living creatures developed into things like us. (CS Lewis)
This is more acceptable and believable than God did it?
Why? The same science that atheists say can not prove the existence of God, can not prove any of this.
To me, that is why not only evolution, but materialism itself is at best a worldview but better described as a religion and should never be even remotely called a science.
CSL was a fine fiction writer (although I prefer the imagination of his contemporary, Tolkein), as a child I enjoyed CoN series and read them half dozen times. His sci-fi not so much, I made it through Space Triology just once. As a theologian, he was just average. Mere Christianity is a treatise on faith which resorts to incredulity and argumentum ad pop. Anything he has to say about astrophysics should in no way be conflated with what actual astrophysicists have to say about our universe. Yes, circumstances for life have to be 'just so,' however, given that we know there are billions of galaxies, consisting of trillions (that's 000000000000 zeros!) it seems entirely likely that just one planet, orbiting just one star, might produce conditions that allow for life to evolve. It's really not that much of a stretch when you look at the facts.
You should not let scientific understanding and knowlege challenge your faith. If a god exists, then he exists, independently of you and your beliefs about it. And if a god exists, what's wrong with trying to understand how he did it? This has been one downfall, IMO, of religions and why they're losing membership, as they come across as being dragged kicking and screaming when confronted with new scientific discoveries.
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