FOR ATHEISTS
Atheist trace back the origin of life to a single cell. They claim that there was plenty of time, and there was plenty of material for that minimalistic, actually infinitesimal, probability to occur. That has some truth indeed. Occurance of a probability depends on the size of the sample space. If sample space is big enough the probability increases.
That probability is in fact calculated just for the material structure of the first cell to occur. Just the mechanical structure (think of it as a machine that does not yet work) requires an infinitely small probability to take place.
Let's momentarily accept that claim that the cell mechanically come into existence by chance.
Now my questions:
1) You have the crude machine by chance, but where is the power or energy and knowldge to make it work, rather than decay back to the cosmic ocean? In other words, where's the life? How can one readily accept that the first cell has the power to work and more than has the knowledge to reproduce by dividing into two. Any scientific logic behind that?
(It is like expecting a corpse to continue to live, since in mechanical structure there's not considerable change in it beteeen the moment it was alive and the next moment it was dead. If atheists believe in a living first cell, then they should also believe that death would never occur)
2) Let's accept, the sample space was big enought to have the first cell. But after the first cell, the sample space is reduced to plain "1". Under the harsh and catastrophic conditions of the early atmosphere it would be fairly impossible for that organic structure to survive. It would decay momentarily. So, for the sake of a conveniently big sample space for survival, we should have, not just 1 first cell but many many many. This reduces the probability from infinitely small to impossibly small, because we need to have, not just 1 machine but maybe millions of it to come into existence by chance.