Was life inevitable?

[FireDragon76]

To me that also points to the Creator.

How so? Christianity says life is the result of a gracious God, not necessity.

If we reconcile this with Christianity, it definitely does not point to an anthropomorphic "Big man in the sky" type deity of conventional American evangelicalism.

 

[Mark Quayle]

How so? Christianity says life is the result of a gracious God, not necessity.

If we reconcile this with Christianity, it definitely does not point to an anthropomorphic "Big man in the sky" type deity of conventional American evangelicalism.

As concerns the existence of God, what conventional American evangelicalism posits is irrelevant. God is not anthropomorphic, unless in the minds of attendants and opposers. It would be more accurate to coin a word like Godopomorphic to describe humans, being made in his image.

But the reasonable implications of Self-Existent First Cause --With Intent-- include his intimate interest in even the smallest particle of matter / energy. "In him we live and move and have our being." The blanket implication from that, that therefore whatever exists, does so because of him is worthy, but we don't have to even go there to see that individual discoveries are frankly amazing, and give yet another hint of how he did/does it.

To otherwise relegate whatever happens to wind down to Chance to avoid infinite regression of cause/effect/cause/effect is illogical, since Chance governs nothing.

But whether you want to say he winds things up and watches them go, or you want to say something like what I believe, it makes little difference as to whether what science discovers points to his doings. There is no other viable explanation. Things don't just happen, even if the other principles by which they operate emerged with them.

As far as effects, "It just is" isn't. Something uncaused had to have caused it.