Where I think that the single cell just multiplied by itself and because the diversity that we see today. No god told the single cell to split one day. It just did. God didn't decide to make polar bears. Nature happened and it wasn't intelligent design.
How is what you believe any less of a fairy tale? You can't reproduce this miraculous single-to-multi-cell transformation in a controlled lab environment with sophisticated modern technology at your disposal.... yet we are to believe it somehow just happened to occur "naturally" and has seemingly never happened again?
And once you've made that quite miraculous leap... however that happened... you then have numerous interdependent kingdoms of life to explain. Nothing from one kingdom of life has ever reproduced something from another kingdom of life, there is absolutely no evidence to support that... and yet, that HAD to happen if everything came from this original single cell. In fact, there isn't even any evidence for evolution beyond genus taxonomy. BUT... you faithfully believe with all your heart, this amazing fantasy happened! It's actually FAR more far-fetched than ANY incarnation of an intelligent designer.
I think what the poster is trying to get you to think about is this... Long before any life existed in the universe, the POTENTIAL for life existed. The INFORMATION was there. Where did that come from? It's an interesting premise and one you don't have an answer for.
Let's imagine you found a box full of parts. You dump the box out and voila, a Maserati assembles itself before your eyes! Now.... You can presume that a.) the box is special, and it was intelligently designed to produce said Maserati. Or-- b.) the box is not special, it just so happened to produce a Maserati. But what you cannot ignore is that it contained all the essential parts of the Maserati which fit together perfectly with nothing left over and you can't explain how it all came together but some mechanism assembled it.
Is this the watchmaker analogy you’re getting at?
But let’s think about this for a moment. If you look at a watch lying on the ground and think to yourself, “Oh, this must be designed,” what are you comparing the watch to in order to make that judgment? Would you compare it to the ground, the trees, the grass, the animals, or the sky perhaps? If the watch looks designed compared to its surroundings, the only logical conclusion we could draw is that its surroundings are not designed. If we were unable to differentiate the watch from its natural surroundings, then we would deem it to be a natural object no different from a rock or a tree.
If we say that life is designed, again, with what are we making the comparison? All that is non-life? OK, but then we would still have to say that all non-life is not designed. But suppose we say that the entire universe is designed. Well, we don’t have another universe to compare ours to, and as Hume points out, that’s exactly the problem. We only have experience with one universe, and unless we have the opportunity to examine other universes (if they exist, of course), we cannot say with any degree of certainty that our universe is designed, nor do we have any reason to believe it is in the first place.
So without even having to rely on complex and dense scientific arguments to refute the watchmaker analogy, we can easily see that the argument serves to refute itself.
Now my purpose in bringing all this up is not to beat up on religion (or maybe it is... I haven’t decided), but to point out that most, if not all, modern arguments for the existence of God(s) are rehashed arguments originating centuries ago, and when you boil them down to there basic logical structure, they are easily dismantled by counterarguments that are often just as old.
When searching for the truth, we do ourselves no favors by conjuring strange excuses on behalf of our beliefs in order to reconcile them with reality. What we should strive for is to arrive at our beliefs in an honest way — a way that is mindful of the facts and adapts with change, and not one that bends to our wishes.
