Information vs. The Odds

Information is important! Without information, you couldn't read this. Well, that's a given, but you couldn't even talk! When you talk, you are producing information. If you think about it, everything that exists must have been brought into existence, or been created. That makes sense. You can't have an egg without a bird. You can't have information without intelligence!

Say you tell your friend to meet you at a park at noon, and you give him a map so he can find you. You are giving information to your friend. If you would've just told him to meet you at noon, he wouldn't know where to go! Now that's obvious. Lets be serious. If you took apart a LEGO set and put it in a box, and shook it however you want, would it become a recognizable creation?

OF COURSE NOT!

 

But how can I be sure? Couldn't it happen? NOT! We know it won't work because the pieces can't just "fall together". If you are a strong Darwinist proponent, you would know that the LEGO pieces couldn't just fall together. Yet you would believe that the "pieces" to sustain life, create the cosmos, and create life through random processes could "fall together" to create everything! Uh...logic check please?

 

Well, maybe if we shake around the LEGO box for a week? No model? Yes. Maybe if we shake it around for a year? No model. What about, a billion years? No model. Ok. Here is my point:

 

If random chance couldn't build a LEGO model, how could it build a human?

 

And, to add on that, humans are so much more complicated than a LEGO model....

...and may I add one more thing:

How could the pieces to even create the LEGO model come about? The LEGO pieces weren't spontaneously generated...and the "pieces" to create people also weren't spontaneously generated.

...and may I add just one more thing:

When you build a LEGO set and some of the pieces are damaged, or not of the right shape, or warped, or damaged, you can't build the entire creation. SO. For a LEGO set to build itself by random chance, you need:

1. Enough pieces.
2. The right kinds of pieces (size, design, shape, etc...)
3. INSTRUCTIONS.

Those criteria are pretty stringent, and if just one is missing...everything falls apart (and probably literally in the case of LEGOs).

Side not: this is another case of irreducible complexity.

 

So what can we conclude? There must be an intelligent agent behind creation. Random mutations will NOT bring about humans. Chance and survival of the fittest isn't the best explanation for humans. Intelligence definitely beats the odds.

 

I hope you enjoyed, and have a nice week!

 

Caleb