I'm not going to say that current theories of evolution are correct...but am I correctly seeing that one of your criticzims of it is that the chances of it happening is like:

"be the same as a blindfolded man finding one marked grain of sand in the desert three times in a row. To get life, you need to get about 200 of those protein molecules together."

...Is that more or less likely than an intelligent being just having always existed with not even a possible explanation as to how?

Just to add, living systems build themselves by disordering their surroundings to a greater degree than they organize themselves. We take in low entropy molecules (sugars) and release CO2 and by breaking sugars into more particles the entropy is increased.

I believe in a creator. I have faith that there is one.

Something didn't come from nothing. Who or what made the universe?

So God is not something?

The cosmological argument is pretty demonstrably silly. Why is the quality of eternalism applicable to God but not the universe?

If the universe is eternal then there has to be a cause. The universe cannot cause itself, so the cause must transcend physical reality. There is no infinite regress. Eventually you arrive at a necessary being to explain all contingent life.

If that necessary being is not God, then what Is it.

Obviously I was referring to evolution in its current state. I pointed that out in my previous posts.

Fortunately I live in Canada now.

Scientific and technical journal articles per million
Ranked 9th. Canada
Ranked 13th. usa

Literacy > Reading performance
Ranked 4th. Canada
Ranked 15th Usa

Population with at least high school education
Ranked 3rd. Canada
Ranked 22nd. Usa

And so on and so forth, you get the idea.


By the way, here's some interesting read for you:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/13/24-7-wall-st-most-educated-countries/15460733/
That's less than 2 months old.
Russia at #1 and Canada at #2. USA sitting at #5. Ouch. That's 5 times worse than Russia, the way you've been counting.

http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/finding-the-next-einstein/201312/whats-the-smartest-country-in-the-world


Now you live in canada? Lol. Next you'll be living in Buffalo new york

No thanks, not interested in living in the US. And do please show me where I said I lived somewhere OTHER than Canada.
As far as the link, I'll take well-established and internationally formed and known organizations working together with the governments of the countries in question over... well... some guy at Duke University with a blog. Thanks for the laugh, though!

edit: By the way, even this random guy you dug up from somewhere agrees with me. Strictly speaking, what I said was:



and he says


What he's measuring is "brainpower", which is a function of sheer population numbers, which obviously favors countries with large populations like the US. The more people you have the more "brainpower" there is, even if the majority of them are dumb as a post. And they didn't even count how many kids actually did well on test scores. They just took the best scores and assumed that's 1% of the population. A country with a billion idiots and 1 super smart guy would have ranked a clear #1 on his chart. Quantity over quality is the best you can do, I guess.

This post was edited by russian on Nov 6 2014 03:49am

So your explaination to your answer is you have faith but you can't believe someone might have faith in something as rare as

"a blindfolded man finding one marked grain of sand in the desert three times in a row. To get life, you need to get about 200 of those protein molecules together."