Originally posted by vishvahetu
But matter was bumbling along blindly, but the conscious intelligent scientists, can speed up the process because they know what sought of matter constitutes an ant, and they can produce a lightning bolt in their laboratory any time they want.
Conscious intelligent scientists are good, but nothing we know of beats time, and several billion years is essentially an unimaginable time period. We use these numbers - millions and billions - but don't really, can't really, appreciate their real meaning.
Knowing something is one thing; actually doing something is completely different.
I know the mechanics of a really good football game, but can I play football? Not terribly well.
And I might add, we don't even really know. We still don't understand how life started - scientifically that is. So, to suggest we should create it in a lab to prove something is a little ludicrous.
To suggest that because we can't there must be something mysterious and supernatural about the process is just as ludicrous.