I think there
are good arguments for the existence of a creator. The teleological argument you seem to be referring to is one of them. But personally, I just don't find myself all that interested in these arguments. Say we accept there's a creator because, for instance, we think the designs of the Earth or biological organisms are too complex to have come about coincidentally. What next? This doesn't tell us about the
nature of this God, or what the purpose of our existence is, or which principles we should live our lives according to. For all we know, that God could be a malevolent force (like the Gnostic demiurge) who wants to deceive humanity, or a higher life form that
created the world as a science experiment.
I get that proving the existence of
a God is usually the first step in arguments that attempt to prove some form of theism that may involve revelation, for instance, which
would inform one's existence, or provide a sense of meaning, or help one decide whether to ctb
. I just think that even if we knew a creator existed, it would be pretty hard to find the answers to those questions. And a desire to find
those answers is—iirc—why you're interested in answering the question of God's existence.
I don't really know why evolution wouldn't be able to explain DNA, but I'm no biologist. I don't understand why they think the universe has been around for too short an amount of time for Earth to come to exist either. Are they referring specifically to the fact that Earth is able to sustain life? If so, I suggest you check out
the anthropic principle.
Uh, I mean, logically speaking yeah inevitebly if monkeys are just smashing keys during an infinite period of time they could nail down Shakespere's work, I don't really see how this ties to theology though.
The idea is (I think) that if the universe is around for long enough, eventually one of the many planets that are formed randomly will fulfil the conditions to sustain life (even though the fact of it being able to sustain life, like the idea of monkeys writing Shakespeare, initially seems to be a remarkable thing).