Hi John,
I have given you examples why I believe the simplest cell organisms or atoms could not have assembled themselves into compounds, DNA and living creatures by chance. Most who do not believe in ID recognize the infinitely small probability that chance could be the cause of our existence, and ask for proof that ID is the cause.
I think that your method of calculating the 'odds of evolution' are flawed, and I would like you (Just as an experiment) to do those same calculations on your 'act of creation':
ID Means exactly this, that an Intelligent Designer designed "the red shift and accelerating expansion." It also means an Intelligent Designer designed fully formed creatures to begin with, with ready made ability to reproduce other creatures after their own kind, according to the DNA designed within them.
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Those who believe in ID simply believe every life creature was a special creative act to begin with.
This doesnt mean I agree with your 'probability argument', just that I would like you to realize the error. If ID wants to 'explain many follies' then obviosly it has to stand against its
own argument, or else its self-contradictory. If something is "irreducibly complex" then something else has to create it, right? This is indicative of ID, correct?(according to your opinion)
please show your calculations.