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"it's much more reasonable and less "crackpottish" if you will, to embrace an idea that states that cognizant reasoning life sprouted from nothing. "
So, consciousness can only spring from same. Where did that first consciousness come from? This is the same line of reasoning that leads people to conclude that the Egyptians couldn't have built the pyramids by themselves. They must have been taught. But who taught the teachers. There's a big logical problem with first cause arguments."Despite 0 evidence, despite the lack of logic that complex design occurs though there is no designer, despite it being in conflict with scientific laws and despite the complete lack of any transitional forms between species?"
Here's where we part company. To me believing that little green men built the pyramids (metaphysical explanation) is more far fetched than saying we built them through our own intelligence. Likewise it makes more sense to say that we got here through natural processes than that some supernatural being put us here. We understand how the brain works and how peptides affect emotion, we have a fossil record of hominids going back millions of years. A record of animals that become more like us as time goes by. We haven't recorded a speciation event. True. But we've only been looking for a short time.On the other hand there's no evidence for any kink of supernatural being described by any religion. In fact science has systematically refuted religious claims for some time. The earth isn't the centre of the universe nor are we resting on a giant turtle shell.
Archeologists may have found places described in the bible but that only backs up the bible as a historical account. A few ruins doesn't prove the existence of any supernatural beings.