There are good reasons to believe that the appearance of life will be explained
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This argument is used in the debate Does God exist?.
This argument is an objection to God explains the appearance of life.
Summary
The fact that Darwinian theory has managed to account for the complexity of living things without postulating a creator should encourage us to do the same with regard to the appearance of life.
Quotes
“If we have understood Darwinism properly, we have learned to distrust the facile presupposition that design is the only alternative to chance, and to spot the slow, gradual steps that mark the increase in complexity. Before Darwin, philosophers like Hume understood that the improbability of life did not mean that it necessarily emanated from design, but they could not imagine this alternative. After Darwin, the very idea of design should arouse our suspicions. The illusion of design is a trap that once ensnared many, whereas today we should be immune to the awareness Darwin offers us.”
Richard Dawkins, To put an end to God, Robert Laffont, Paris, 2008.