The human brain and intelligence of life.

Reading through the 5th lecture (which I should have done last week but didn't because I was ubersick) I've come across something really interesting, it has to do with with chance, evolution and coincidence. It's funny how my last post I was talking about the complexity of the human brain and in the lecture it was said...

"the chance argument... suffers from a lack of precision. We only have 15 billion years to go from the Big Bang to human intelligence. Is that really long enough for the various statistical processes to work to give rise to us? I would suggest that no one has done this calculation yet in a convincing manner.

Many, like Hugh Ross, argue that some element of design is required, not just pure chance. Ross suggests that the probability we evolved by chance is similar to the probability that a Boeing 747 would appear after a tornado struck a junkyard!

This is not to say that the Big Bang Theory of time and so on is incorrect and Evolution is completely false. It's just not as some have believed that evolution is the "unguided" process by which life has become the way we know it. I read of a definition - possibly the NCSE saying that it was an unguided process. Looking at their website though it seems that in American education, just as many other places, the teaching of evolution has became more accepting of co-existence with religion and God, since the writing of that partiular book.

Finishing the reading of that lecture... I thought it was a bit over the top with it's "evidence" of a guided creation. It gave 25 parameters which if they were remotely different this universe would not exist. Then at the end it said that some may argue that there may be many universes with different values than the ones we have that might work together to form a different universe than ours and that the only problem with this is there's no evidence of any other universes. Duh! There aren't any other's because this one is the one that happened! If this one had not had it's supporting elements to build then maybe a different one would have. Maybe I'm taking what Robert said the wrong way and I need to go read the discussions to better understand the end of this lecture.