"At Random"

Another of my postings, in response to Linda:

I have no problem that things can adapt to their enviroment. But to me logic tells me something of intelligence created it to begin with. It just not not make sense that all we see just came about by some glitch or random accident and for no reason or purpose as nothing exists unless it serves some purpose for itself to exist.

Linda, I believe that phrases like "came about by some random accident" or "came about by itself" are red herrings. They are designed (!) to lead people astray -- to get them wasting time on randomness and meaning.

Science doesn't claim things happen "by themselves" or "at random", with the exception of certain quantum mechanical phenomena.

Instead, science is all about law and order.

Science starts from the assumption that things happen according to rules, and these rules can be discovered. These rules are things like Newton's laws of motion, the laws of thermodynamics, the law of supply and demand, Maxwell's field equations, the laws of chemistry, and so on.

Science assumes that there are either no exceptions to this rule, or the number of exeptions is so small that they can be ignored.

It would therefore follow that, under this guiding assumption of science, everything, including the origin of life and its subsequent development, also happened in accord with rules that are either known, or can be discovered. These rules include the laws of chemistry, the laws of genetics, and many others besides.

Now, these laws may have been written by a law giver, or they may have simply existed for all time with no input from any creator. I don't think this can be determined in any scientific way, and for the purpose of doing science, it really doesn't matter.

One of the things believers find offensive about Creationism (and, for that matter, Intelligent Design / Intelligent Origin Theory) is that it abandons this belief in rules, law, and order. The universe becomes a house of chaos, ruled by imperial whim which can be set aside without warning.

That Creationism or ID/IOT can look at an orderly universe and see chaos and whim is terribly annoying to people who are trying to do real science.