Oh, come on, just like at the geological f-18s analogy.......that analogy was probably GENEROUS to materialists, and I know darn well that I don't need a mathematician to tell me that the odds of the forces of geology just by coincidence pre-destining the production of f-18s (a machine much less compex than man) aren't very good.
But geology doesn't produce f-18s, it produces mountains through processes we understand pretty well.
And, hang on a second, "pre-destining" - nothing has predestined anything, that's the whole drift of naturalism. Things just happen.
Yes. But the difference is that not only does a theoretical metaphysical force, like God, not require an explaination, but the attempt at explaining a metaphysical being or process through physical means would be absurd.
However, physical beings like us DO require a physical explaination.........and even if all of the forces of nature conspire together to materialistically pre-destin the existance of man, could we really convince ourselves that these natural phenomonon just HAPPEN BY CHANCE to work together to make us?
Nope. Firstly, as I said above: no pre-destination. Secondly, you're wrong - we don't require any more or less explanation that a god does. Whatever reason you can put forward as to why your designed doesn't require an explanation I can put forward as to why the universe doesn't require one - and the universe will
always be the simpler explanation.
Our knowledge of the laws of Physics are derived from a tiny sample under a small subset of possible circumstances; we know nothing yet about what goes on at the big bang yet alone before it. What Physics has taught us, however, is that intuition and common sense are very poor guides indeed.