This is merely the teleological argument for the existence of a deity, also known as intelligent design or watchmaker argument.
David Hume started shooting holes in that argument more than 300 years ago, and countless philosophers have continued to shred it with logic in the centuries ever since.
But of course people are free to ignore all that and hand-wave away the complete lack of any hard scientific evidence supporting the existence of a deity as either the prime-mover of the cosmos or the existence of life on earth. Some people really desperately need to believe that they are super-important and their existence is super-significant, even though our time on this piffling little rock orbiting one very normal star in one of a hundred billion galaxies isn't even a blink of the eye in the life of the universe.
I believe in both God, and that the Earth incredibly old
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This is merely the teleological argument for the existence of a deity, also known as intelligent design or watchmaker argument.
David Hume started shooting holes in that argument more than 300 years ago, and countless philosophers have continued to shred it with logic in the centuries ever since.
But of course people are free to ignore all that and hand-wave away the complete lack of any hard scientific evidence supporting the existence of a deity as either the prime-mover of the cosmos or the existence of life on earth. Some people really desperately need to believe that they are super-important and their existence is super-significant, even though our time on this piffling little rock orbiting one very normal star in one of a hundred billion galaxies isn't even a blink of the eye in the life of the universe.