RE: THE WONDER'S of God's creation - THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
Respectfully, yes, I do believe it happened by chance. 3.5 billion years, combined the fact that radiation causes strange things to happen.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=47820
Have you considered all the types of genetic disorders? These are random and can be caused by physical exposure. For example, smoking while pregnant, diseases from mosquitos, drinking while pregnant. So genes can be changed by physical substances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_disorders
So genes do get modified in abnormal ways. And in addition to that, human now are determining how to modify them. Look at these glow-in-the-dark cats.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/jellyfish-genes-make-glow-in-the-dark-cats/
So, here's my point.
Radiation causes strange things to happen in cells. Physical chemicals cause genes to change. These changes can cause things like glow-in-the-dark cats.
Now, if suddenly glow-in-the-dark cats survived better than not-glow-in-the-dark cats for some reason, then we would expect to only find glow-in-the-dark cats. Only the strong survive. This is called natural selection.
Not that this will matter because the poster believes in God and there is no way to logically argue with a religious person;
But It's all to do with the nature of Infinity, because the universe is so old it is more likely than not that life would have developed over that time, Basically to analogize; "A much less likely scenario would be an untrained monkey, or lets say something that randomly generates letters/words would be able to form the complete work of Shakespeare, However given Infinite time this Would Happen" So basically if given a large amount of time, intricate culminations can form from seemingly "Random" or even completely random processes, this is to say that it is absolutely possible, in fact more possible than not possible (In terms of Entropy) that due to the age of the universe that the "Seemingly Random" Processes of atoms would form complex molecules and these molecules would form structures like Protozoa, Bacteria, etc. Which again over time would evolve into (Through random or seemingly random processes) multi cellular organisms like plants, animals.
Thank you for reading and commenting @iceshaft07. Sorry don't know why but I can't get the reply directly under your comment! My goal with my posts is not to prove what non-believing scientist believe is wrong but to bring honor to my Creator God for everything He made so wonderful.
Thank you for taking the time to read and comment. Obviously our viewpoint and beliefs differs. As you said you can't argue logically with a Christian, I feel the same a non-believer will never agrees with me. My goal with this series of posts is not to necessarily prove that what unbelieving scientist say is wrong but to bring honor to God for what He created.
Not to mention that we are speaking about millions of years, it is a huge amount of time, unimaginable for us what can happen in such a big interval.