Intelligent individuals know life did not invent itself and could not possibly have erupted by chance on earth under an oxygenated environment, among other scientific obstructions to the possibility of biogenesis. But that does not keep intelligent people from believing life somehow miraculously began on earth without God.
Let's not kid ourselves, you are, in fact, asserting that those who do not accept your premise are not as intelligent as those that do. Don't deny it, please, for if you do, I won't believe you.
Mark, with due respect, when you assert that intelligent people MUST accept your premise and if they don't agree with you you are implying they are not intelligent if they don't agree with you, and by doing that, what you are doing is waiving a flag that says 'Hello folks, I am ignorant". Is that the flag you want to wave? You realize that intelligence, like all forms of awareness, occur in nature in layered levels. You have, in the ocean, and see if you can follow this analogy: in the ocean we have, mud crawlers, and at the surface, we have mammals that breath air, and then we have everything in between the mud and the surface. A mud crawler cannot fathom what it is like to be an intelligent, air breathing mammal, nor can an air breathing ocean going mammal know what it is like to be land based human and in this line of reasoning, NOR CAN YOU fathom what intelligent people, PERHAPS more intelligent than you, what they can know, or not know, people who are above your intellectual paygrade. Everyone has someone more intelligent than they are, there are no exceptions. Capiche? To make such a statement is a pseudo debate trick called 'Posturing', which is an attempt to puff oneself up so as to achieve a higher posture in the hopes that no one can question you. But, that is a logical fallacy.
“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.
George Wald
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All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex to have evolved anywhere. We all believe as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that life's complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did.
Harold Urey
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“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.”
― Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.”
― Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
Your assumption is that life cannot exist without god. But, what you mean is life cannot exist without a supremely intelligent designer. What you are doing is assuming the nature of God, and that is where your logic breaks down. How can we, mortal human beings, possibly fathom the true nature of God? Well, I'll give my two cents: In my view, there just may be a spiritual basis to life, which is, in my view, what God is, but it's not what religionists think, it's not an entity above all things designing things. As a pantheist, myself, I accept that the spiritual basis to life is just a spiritual river, and essence, a force, from which all life springs, but thing is, it happens in randomity. The evidence of the randomity of existence is overwhelming, there is no denying it. That doesn't preclude the concept that life could (and probably does) have a spiritual basis. I.E. "Chance'. But, see, assuming infinity, all that is possible, is inevitable. so, in essence, 'God' is an abstract concept called infinity, because as long as there is such a thing as infinity, and I suggest there is, all that is required for life to occur is that it is possible, and if it is possible, (and it IS possible) therefore,
it is inevitable. Oh, it might take 50 trillion throws of the universal dice to occur, but note that ALL numbers are
infinitesimally small compared to infinity.
That is the fact is that the 'ID" people fail to grasp. Note that I am not an atheist, I am more in the 'pantheist' category.