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Wow, I guess this would be a 20th Century version of the teleological argument (argument from design):

I would like to begin by sharing a simple analogy that I have used for many years as a tongue-in-cheek illustration for the existence of God. This is my theory of where the Coca-Cola can may have come from.

Billions of years ago, there was a massive explosion in space. Nobody knows what caused the big bang, it just happened, and from that explosion issued a massive rock, and on top of that rock was found a sweet, brown, bubbly substance.

Over millions of years, aluminum crept up the side and formed itself into a can, then into a lid, and eventually a tab. And millions of years later, red and white paints fell from the sky and formed themselves into the words "Coca-Cola, 12 fluid ounces."

You may rightly say, "What are you talking about? You are insulting my intellect." You know that if the soda can has been made, there must be a maker. If it was designed, there must be a designer. To believe it happened by sheer chance -- created out of nothing -- is to move into an intellectual-free zone.

This parody of evolutionary theory illustrates how silly it is. Yet this is exactly what evolutionists claim: something can bring itself into being from nothing, and with enough time, complex systems can be assembled by chance through random, unguided processes. We intuitively know when something is designed, and we know that things don't design and create themselves. For some reason, we understand this logic for every subject except our incredible creation -- with its amazing design, complexity, beauty, and order. That just doesn't make sense.

If the first man to walk on the moon had uncovered a Coke can on its surface, would it be reasonable to surmise that it had evolved there over millions of years? Or would you know it was designed and created, and therefore someone must have been there before? Now think about how simplistic the Coke can is compared to the design, beauty, order, and complexity of our marvelous creation!

On our television program, "The Way of the Master," after using the Coke can example I held up a banana and jokingly called it "the atheist's nightmare." I explained how it was shaped for the human hand, had a tab, a wrapper, etc., comparing it to the Coke can to show obvious "design." Although my co-host, Kirk Cameron, gently warned me that atheists would take it out of context and make me look like a fool, we went ahead and used the clip anyway.

-- Chapter 1: Are Atheists Smarter than Most? from How to Know God Exists - Scientific Proof of God by Ray Comfort


Why do I have a feeling that the rest of this book isn't going to go well? (Yes, I got my free copy in the mail.)