Well, has anyone ever thought it might have been a bit mind boggling for the people that lived AT THAT TIME to sit down and go over how the strong and weak nuclear force works? The temperature and pressure of stars? The gasious mixture of the earths atmosphere? Water is 2 parts hydrogen, one part oxygen? Etc., Etc... These are the really easy ones off the top of my head. How could the people during this time understood this?
Because people weren't idiots back then, they were just ignorant.
Look, somehow
you learned all that stuff, right? I mean you weren't born knowing it. The knowledge you have now was built on a foundation of education that took a long time, but it didn't take a thousand years or anything. It just took some school.
Two thousand years from now a scientist is explaining to me all the theories of HIS modern time. Even if I am well versed in science, how the heck can I really follow what he is saying?
If he starts from principles that you
do understand, why would it be so hard? It might be time-consuming, but remember that up in his time, they teach children who know even less about science than you do.
It just takes time.
Secondly, why is it so hard believe life is intelligently designed?
Because things that are alive are nothing like anything that has ever been designed, except where our designs have aped that which has already lived.
Take out a medical book and read it sometime about the human body and all the chemical processes it undergoes daily. It is amazing. That isn't designed?
Nope! I mean, c'mon. The human retina was put in
backwards. The light-senstitive side faces
inwards, towards the inside of the skull. The only reason we can see
at all is because the two layers on top of the light-sensitive layer are thin enough for enough daylight to pass through. But you still have blind spots from those layers.
Does that seem designed to you? If the designer was an idiot, maybe.
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