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Problems with the Argument from Design in Nature

Another argument for the existence of God is the "Argument from Design in Nature." According to Prof. Peter Kreeft, this argument goes like this... "The universe is like a giant incubator, or a giant womb. It is exactly calibrated to produce human life. Life could never evolve if any one of thousands of extremely narrow windows of opportunity had closed. The probability of it all happening by chance is far, far less than the probability of the same one out of a billion betters winning every singe one of a billion lotteries every single day for a billion millennia. It doesn't take faith to believe that the game is fixed. it takes faith to believe it isn't." Kreeft continues.. "This is probably the single most popular argument for God. You find it among the most primitive tribes and among the most sophisticated scientists. Order requires an Orderer. If there is no God, no divine mind that planned and designed us, if our brains evolved