Accident?

In the Christian world-view, there are only two choices: Created or an accident. Well, if you don't believe that a god created you, then automatically you believe that you are just an accident.

Hey! When my Mom married my Dad, that's not an accident.

OK… enough of tasteless jokes.

So why an accident? Well, that's because god-believers think that there's a cause for everything. An accident is defined as an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause. If you don't believe that a god (which is claimed to be the first cause) created you then VIOLA! You're an accident - A meaningless lifeforms without a purpose. A "thing" that just came from some random event. Sounds bleak.

Fortunately (and unfortunately to Christian belief) Nature both has nonrandom and random components. That doesn't really sound like an accident, does it? Nature is a complex combination of random events and natural process which are not mere chance. Heavier rocks doesn't sink by sheer luck. A combination of physical laws: Gravity, buoyancy… will make a heavier rock settle under finer sand. Genetic mutation and natural selection are not petty fluke.

Does science says life is just chance? No it doesn't. Chance are just random episodes. We don't study physics, biology and chemistry to learn some chance driven events that happen by freak luck. That's a waste of time and energy - and funds. Random accidents cannot be falsified. I think it's the Christians "historical science" which cannot be falsified, but not science. Nature has a process. Life has a process.

But process doesn't mean a "grand purpose." A hammer is a machine, it's a lever. Being a lever is its process - a hammer can hit nails because of the manner how it is use (as a lever)but that doesn't mean that a hammer cannot be use (purpose) in other ways. A hammer may have a purpose because it was designed and manufactured to perform a certain function, but that is not significant from the viewpoint of the hammer. Same as how a mousetrap can be constructed using only 3 parts or a flagellum's tail that can be use other than swimming.