God, or Chance?

The Universe came from somewhere. Many scientists have postulated various forms of the Big Bang theory and, at the heart of that speculation is the question of how such a thing occurred? It has been determined that such an explosion was unlikely to the point of impossibility to have happened by chance, but rather it would have to have been controlled. But others maintain that there is no Creator to design and control a Big Bang and, no matter how unlikely, the Universe came about by chance.

Creationists believe that God created the Universe.

Either God did it, or chance did it. The Universe did not create itself.

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Where did life come from? All efforts to recreate a scenario in which life arises from non-life have been failures. No scientists have managed to postulate a cohesive formula or identify a clear path from non-life to life. They say that it happened, somehow, because we are here. By some chance occurrence, life came about.

Creationists believe that God created life and there was no life before He created it.

Either God did it, or chance did it. Life did not create itself.

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Assuming some primitive form of life existed, how did all the thousands of kinds of life get here? Evolutionists believe that mutations occurring by chance were selected by natural selection, millions upon millions for each living creature existing now, until all life had evolved from one primitive life form. This is why many fossils found now are of animals that do not now exist, because they were evolving into what we find now.

Creationists believe that God created all life fully formed and the over the course of time and a biosphere changed by the Flood and the aftermath of the Flood, many of the kinds of life once found on earth have become extinct. But there is no new form of life that wasn't created at the beginning by God.

Either God did it, or chance did it. Creatures do not create themselves and natural selection is an observed phenomenon that tends to preserve the gene pool rather than change it.

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Say what you will, at the heart of all conversations between the two sides is the argument between God and chance as the maker of the Universe and all that is within it.