Quote Originally Posted by Vwls View Post
There will never be a way to determine if God is real or imagined. Those who "know" one way or the other have to step out in faith. There could be a Creator, or the universe could be completely accidental. Whatever you choose to believe is fine with me, and I'll never demand that you abandon your way of seeing things. But I will say this: the idea that there was a "first first" is both logical and plausible. Consider the extreme complexity of human reproduction... of the makeup of the even smallest parts of the human body. Study something like the brain or the human eye. Consider if you will the strategic balance of life, and each part that contributes to a given ecosystem. Every tiny detail is necessary for function - is it all by chance? If you were to throw together the building blocks for life into a box, I guarantee that you could shake it six million times and pour out its contents, and it would never have the perfect conglomeration needed to make it LIVE and WORK. This suggests some sort of intelligent design.
You complete me. It was actually near the end of my Physiology class that I really began to soul search and seek out God in earnest as I just could NOT believe the immense complexity that is the human body could just happen by chance. It is impossible, you could not calculate the improbability.

I also directly challenged my physiology teacher to explain how he could believe random events created us, body system by body system, and he quickly stumbled and said (after a couple weeks) "You know Michael, no one has ever asked me that before and to be honest, I don't know." Now keep in mind this is not direct proof of God's existence, but it certainly does prove that the complexity we see in nature is far too intricate and advanced to be easily explained away as just random luck and chance. Little evolution here and there, you get the idea.