Bobocop said:

So I had a dream a few years back that's really stuck with me.

I broke into the Dinosaurs' computer lab and started to dig around in their files... and I discovered the shocking truth that the world was created by a Dump Truck with a beard.

Thoughts?

Start a religion. These fuckers will believe in anything. :P

and by that I mean mankind. (It seems shameful that I have to be clear I don't mean anyone in particular in these forums)

darth_ender said:

Already having learned this stuff before, it is still refreshing to learn about genetics and the amazingly complex chemical reactions that comprise replication, translation, and ultimately what leads to a life form. I fail to see how this could have arisen without a God.

I've though about that quite a bit in my hours alone at work. I think it's very unlikely that all this could happen on its own on the first try. I will not dismiss the possibility of a God without proof, but I would say that in an infinite universe given infinite time, all possible outcomes could occur. Assuming the universe recycles itself periodically like all things in nature seem to do, if there's even a possibility life could begin without divine origins then it would happen eventually. It could have very well taken 80 million or so universal cycles for conditions to be just right for life to happen on our tiny dot in the cosmos. That's my two pennies. However, that idea depends on the rules governing chemical reactions leading to life being in place already, which then begs the question of how these molecular and sub-atomic rules are established.

Well said.