nwtk2007 wrote:
Blade, I thought you were gone. Someone was asking about you a while back.
Not to argue but here is some good links to transitional fossils, just to let you know there are many but right, none hardly from the Cambrian explosion which was around 550million yrs ago and lasted about 30 million years. I am pretty sure these were mostly soft tissue organisms so not fossilized too well. What it represents is the emergence of O2 in the atmosphere, I believe, to levels which could be utilized and new oxidative methods of energy production showed up. But it took a long long time for that to happen even after O2 arose, which was a couple of billion years before that, I think.
You also stated, "It is impossible for the natural laws that govern the universe to do so without an intelligence behind them." What makes you think so. These aren't laws which were written like do not speed, don't tell a lie, etc, but are physical laws which are part of the fabric of space, built upon the four interactions: strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravitational. These are measurable things for us and so it is in our limits as to what we can observe about them.
But what laws govern a "creator" of a universe? It simply IS? Maybe so, but it is immeasurable without some "faith" which is from a conscious standpoint only.
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Nothing begins to exist in this universe without a purpose, a reason for its existence. Who or what established the purpose of the four fundamental forces and determined their precise magnitudes, dimensions, and finely tuned interactions?
The four fundamental forces combined with the rest of the Universal Constants have always presented a dilemma for secular scientists, they have attempted many times and in many ways to scientifically refute the idea that the universe is finely tuned so that life can exist. Out of all possible combinations of matter, energy, and forces, and all possible magnitudes and dimensions for each of them with which to build a universe, who or what chose the only combination in which life could exist?
As an example, Let's consider just the four fundamental forces.
If the strong nuclear force was a unit of magnitude larger than it is, no hydrogen would form; atomic nuclei for most life-essential elements would be unstable; thus, no life chemistry. I this force was smaller, no elements heavier than hydrogen would form: again, no life chemistry
If the weak nuclear force was a unit of magnitude larger, too much hydrogen would have converted to helium in the big bang; hence, stars would convert too much matter into heavy elements making life chemistry impossible. If this force was smaller: too little helium would have emerged from the big bang; hence, stars would convert too little matter into heavy elements making life chemistry impossible.
If the gravitational force was a unit of magnitude larger: stars would be too hot and would burn too rapidly and too unevenly for life chemistry. If smaller: stars would be too cool to ignite nuclear fusion; thus, many of the elements needed for life chemistry would never form.
If the electromagnetic force was a unit of magnitude greater: chemical bonding would be disrupted; elements more massive than boron would be unstable to fission. If lesser: chemical bonding would be insufficient for life chemistry.
The odds are beyond astronomical that this came to be by some random chance, there is an intelligence behind this, and that intelligence had a purpose. Life is a far too beautiful a thing, far too complex and mysterious, to think that we are the result of time plus matter plus chance. If we are nothing more than chemistry and physics in motion, then we have no intrinsic worth--our worth then is determined by the state or by an extrinsic entity.