
Originally Posted by
markashley
Question: Is your position there is a 100% chance that life is random?
Your question does not make sense. If you are asking me if I think that it's entirely plausible that life originated without intelligent interference, I would say "yes."
If you ask which I believe is likelier, I would say that it is more likely that the origin was not intelligently implemented.
I do not know.
Unless evidence comes forward to convince me that intelligence brought forth life on Earth, I have no reason to consider it at this time.

Originally Posted by
markashley
Before answering, consider the vast amount of scientific knowledge yet undiscovered. Future generations will look at our science as we look at 17th century science.
Broad claim. We do not know the future. I also do not care how they look at us- it has no bearing on your I.D. beliefs.

Originally Posted by
markashley
My hypothesis is that the very laws of organic chemistry and physics at the start of the big bang may have had something in it yet undiscovered that prefers life.
All the way back to the Big Bang, eh? There were some properties that made a slight preference of matter over anti-matter, too. Now, the Universe is primarily matter.
Your argument should have the Universe absolutely teeming with life.
Maybe it is. But until I see evidence of it, I won't claim it is.

Originally Posted by
markashley
The idea that the conditions at the instant of the big bang were created randomly and and in such a way that they would randomly derive life seems (as I've said before) very reasonable.

Originally Posted by
markashley
But is it so unreasonable to suggest there may be something going on as yet undiscovered?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You may maintain your faith in an intelligent designer, waiting for that designer to be discovered, if you choose.
But citing the Big Bang?
That was almost 8,000,000,000 years before the Earth even Existed.