Terrorism and violence are the work of people. According to christianity, God gave people a choice to do their own bidding. Terrorism isnt his problem, its our problem.
And God punished us the first time we used our free will to obtain knowledge, right? Some choice.
Part of the reason for this belief is my awe at the incredible fine tuning of the universe to be the way it is... all of the constants, characteristics, and properties that have made it possible for us, or anything, to have existed in the first place.
I don't remember how it's phrased exactly; there's a good sentence that sums it up nicely, but since I can't remember it, I'll explain it:
The Universe isn't "tuned" per se. It's "tuned" to produce what we see here today. If it was different, we'd a) not exist at all, like if the laws of physics didn't permit molecular formation, or b) we'd be totally different beings, but we'd still ask "why is the Universe tuned so finely?"
I don't know of any religion that actually believes in the entire Bible. (two obvious examples: Stoning children to death for not listening to their parents? Selling your daughter into slavery?) The Bible is meant to be allegorical - stories about how to live our lives. Not something to be taken literally.
There are some groups out there that believe it is in fact the literal, direct word of God, to be taken as such. Two accounts of how the Universe was created? Then that's how it happened.
Nor can randomness/chaos/probability produce an organism which can then evolve into what we are now. The chances of a single-cellular organism encompassing a mitochondria (please don't get into the whole mitochondria has its own RNA) and then encompassing more organisms to create the first organism with organelles is nill. It is probably like trying to plug a female-part adapter into another female-port; it was never intended to do it and never will. Single cellular organisms never intended to encompass other single cellular organisms and probably never did and never will.
They don't intend to do anything. It's not like they set out with this goal. Slow progression, with many billions of iterations (lots of bacteria all over the world), over billions of years - you get a lot of chances. And of course, there are many many quadrillions of other planets out there - there's probably lots of them that are as lifeless as Mercury. Things just didn't make it there; maybe a key element wasn't present. Maybe the temperature was wrong. Maybe a star went supernova a few thousand light years away and fried the planet with radiation. What happens on this little planet is only a tiny part of what's going on everywhere.
And I wouldn't call it random either. There are a multitude of forces at work - gravity, heat, motion. I wouldn't call it pure chaos. An electron orbiting a proton - it's not necessarily chaotic. It has a certain order that is dictated by laws of physics.
1) Fall in love
2) Observe the world from above 10000 ft
3) Understand the complexity of nature (Well, thats not quite feasable, but get an idea of how intricate and perfect it is)
4) Listen to Mozart
5) Have a child
You offer these as proof of a higher being?
1) I view love as a progression of bonds formed during mating rituals. Some animals can form close bonds with mates. It helps propagate the species - those that form close bonds are more likely to have surviving offspring, which can then do the same for their offspring, and so on. They evolved over time to require this bonding. Humans, with their bizzarrely-large brains and higher degree of intelligence take this bonding a few steps further - what we call love. It's a close bond, and even dependance on others.
2) Similar to #3
3) Partially addressed above - it is complex and simple at the same time. Look really close, then try to place that idea over everything, well, it's a lot to think about. Billions of atoms in a drop of water? Impossible to visualize. But now visualize a planet orbiting a star. Just a simple circular orbit, expressable in a simple mathematical formula. It's comprised of an incredible number of atoms though - simple, yet complex.
4) A composer with a gift for creating series of frequencies that are quite pleasing to many people. Humans brains give them great creativity, and there are a variety of media upon which to express this.
5) Sex Ed 101. Sperm fertilizes egg, and a process that's had billions of years of R&D time begins. DNA instructs certain cells to take on certain functions, where to go, what to do.
There are many events depicted in the bible which there is archaelogical evidence to support that they indeed have happened. (IE, the flood, the day the sun stood still, jesus of nazerus, etc) So i find no fault with the bible or its texts there-in.
News to me. The main incidence of mass extinction found around the world was from an asteroid impact; I believe it coated the planet with...damn mind, can't remember it. Iridium or yttrium, something like that. Anything like the sun, rather, Earth, standing still would have also likely killed everything on the planet - if it stopped quickly, everything not securely anchored would likely be launched into low orbit.