I agree, the odds of a cell forming by accident hover just above absolute zero. But that's not the real issue. There's a text called the Astrobiology Primer that outlines the chemical interactions supposedly leading to the formation of at least parts of the cell with the assumption that it all just fell into place on it's own. What the author failed to realize, and speaks to the point here, is that all that would produce would be a lifeless bit of organic goo. Nowhere does the primer, nor any atheist channels I've watched so far, speculate as to how that lifeless bit of organic goo became alive. (One one channel, I asked "how it became animated" and that was apparently too cryptic for at least one person, who couldn't make the logical jump between "animated" and "alive.") As biologist Michael Levin points out, "Life has cognition all the way down to the individual cell." This means that 'mind' is required for a cell to be alive, and mind is not a property of matter. Too many think that mind is a function of the brain and neural activity, but IMHO this is backwards thinking. I rather suspect that it took mind in order for the brain to evolve. So, while complexity is certainly a consideration, the key reason abiogenesis is an impossibility is because 'mind' is necessary for life, and that would not happen by accident.
The way to knowing God exists is not thru logic, and there will never be any physical evidence for the existence of God, there only ever by experiential evidence for God. I've felt his love BIG TIME and I now know that Jesus is right, God's love for each and every one of us is so great it's immeasurable. (It also requires nothing from us in order to have it--no sacrifices of any kind, the Father loves us because we are a part of him.) But there are many olden notions of God that are anthropomorphic that give many believers a wrong impression of God. Many of those are in the Old Testament, which no longer serves the purpose of promoting God. Couple that with all ideas of "hell" and you have a reason for people to disbelieve. There's nothing divine about the concept of hell, as a loving Father would never consent to such torture. All Christian ideas of an angry God stem from his original conception, Yahweh was the name of a volcano. But institutionalized religions do not have any mechanisms for modifying their belief structures. The All-or-Nothing attitude of many with regard to the Bible, preclude that. While many already pick and choose which parts of the Bible are important to them, atheists will forever bring up things like the Bible's support of slavery as a reason for non-belief. Even the idea of Jesus dying for our sins, as appealing as that is to many, serves as a turn-off to all those who feel no need of being saved by someone who would kill his own Son. IMHO, Jesus only died because he wanted to demonstrate a resurrection, which can only happen after dying. His own teaching on forgiveness is in the Lord's Prayer: forgive us as we forgive others. Paul got that one wrong. While Jesus is not flawed, Christianity certainly is.
I agree, the odds of a cell forming by accident hover just above absolute zero. But that's not the real issue.
There's a text called the Astrobiology Primer that outlines the chemical interactions supposedly leading to the formation of at least parts of the cell with the assumption that it all just fell into place on it's own. What the author failed to realize, and speaks to the point here, is that all that would produce would be a lifeless bit of organic goo. Nowhere does the primer, nor any atheist channels I've watched so far, speculate as to how that lifeless bit of organic goo became alive. (One one channel, I asked "how it became animated" and that was apparently too cryptic for at least one person, who couldn't make the logical jump between "animated" and "alive.")
As biologist Michael Levin points out, "Life has cognition all the way down to the individual cell." This means that 'mind' is required for a cell to be alive, and mind is not a property of matter. Too many think that mind is a function of the brain and neural activity, but IMHO this is backwards thinking. I rather suspect that it took mind in order for the brain to evolve. So, while complexity is certainly a consideration, the key reason abiogenesis is an impossibility is because 'mind' is necessary for life, and that would not happen by accident.
The way to knowing God exists is not thru logic, and there will never be any physical evidence for the existence of God, there only ever by experiential evidence for God. I've felt his love BIG TIME and I now know that Jesus is right, God's love for each and every one of us is so great it's immeasurable. (It also requires nothing from us in order to have it--no sacrifices of any kind, the Father loves us because we are a part of him.)
But there are many olden notions of God that are anthropomorphic that give many believers a wrong impression of God. Many of those are in the Old Testament, which no longer serves the purpose of promoting God. Couple that with all ideas of "hell" and you have a reason for people to disbelieve. There's nothing divine about the concept of hell, as a loving Father would never consent to such torture. All Christian ideas of an angry God stem from his original conception, Yahweh was the name of a volcano.
But institutionalized religions do not have any mechanisms for modifying their belief structures. The All-or-Nothing attitude of many with regard to the Bible, preclude that. While many already pick and choose which parts of the Bible are important to them, atheists will forever bring up things like the Bible's support of slavery as a reason for non-belief.
Even the idea of Jesus dying for our sins, as appealing as that is to many, serves as a turn-off to all those who feel no need of being saved by someone who would kill his own Son. IMHO, Jesus only died because he wanted to demonstrate a resurrection, which can only happen after dying. His own teaching on forgiveness is in the Lord's Prayer: forgive us as we forgive others. Paul got that one wrong. While Jesus is not flawed, Christianity certainly is.