Would it be so far out to say that something probably designed me that way?  Or would it make more sense for me to say that that all happened by chance?

That's an argument from Incredulity. Also a ridiculous false dichotomy. The evolution of the hands, of appendages and organs are very well document. Your dichotomy is chance or design. But there is another alternative. Controlled natural process. Evolution is the precise opposite of chance, making this an argumentum ad ignorantium. Three logical fallacies in two sentences.

  I have the strangest urge to take my son's Lego blocks, put them into the clothes drier, and turn it on.  Perhaps in a billion years those blocks would form a house with a door, windows, a triangular roof, steps on the inside, and also several rooms as well.  If that would happen in a billion years, I promise you not even a day later would that house fall apart.  Simply because there is no intelligent life guiding where the blocks go.

False dichomoty again. And false analogous process. 

  So overall my question is, is it really that crazy to believe something created us?  That something designed us?

It's a deus ex machina fallacy: offering an intractable to solve an intractable (except that the problem isn't intractable, just the solution). Even if it was a problem (it isn't. Life did not come about by chance. Evolution is probably the most carefully controlled natural process in existence) the solution merely poses the same problem. You offer a complex entity (ie maximal intelligence) as a solution to the existence of complex entities (life forms) because you are in awe of the complexity of said life forms. Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?

A chicken, which had been plucked, skinned and cooked.  An intelligent designer would have provided an animal without feathers or unsavory skin, and no microbes, requiring a thorough cooking process to prevent illness (how many people have fallen ill or died from uncooked chicken?).

A secondary result of this is that food gets stuck between the teeth, and plaque forms on the surface of the teeth, allowing for gum disease and tooth decay, unless hygeinic measures are taken (such as flossing and brushing).  An intelligent designer would not have provided oral architecture susceptible to such damage.

Not all poisons have taste.  An intelligent designer would have accounted for this.

You also use your mouth and throat to breathe.  If the food had got caught in your throat, you would have begun choking and possibly died.  An intelligent designer would have provided two separate passageways for breathing and eating. 

You are warm-blooded, so you are constantly burning energy to maintain your body's temperature.  In several hours, your body will have expended the energy provided by that chicken, and you will be hungry again.  An intelligent designer would have made you cold-blooded, where one chicken meal would last you for weeks on end.

I think it's kind of un-cool how the appendix has no purpose, other than to occasionally threaten someone's life, requiring surgical removal.

If the human body was designed, the designer was an idiot.

It would make no sense to say that happened by chance.  If not for evolution, your hands and elbows would be more conditioned to swinging from trees, and your teeth would be more conditioned for eating fruit rather than meat. 

Maybe, maybe not.  But if this "design" is the best it can do, it certainly isn't worthy of respect, much less worship. 

Needing fuel, I understand.  A car needs fuel.  Even a computer needs an energy source.

Of course, an intelligent designer would have fixed it so we would have no need for fuel.  

I've just never understood why a designer would include the need for sleep. 

Gregfl<<<<<sick of these 7th grade already refuted arguments copied off of a apologetic websites.

I understand.

When I saw the thread title, I had one of those, "Uh-oh, here we go again" moments, then clicked on it anyway.

Apparently, American education isn't doing its job, so we are one group that will have to pick up the slack.  In the meantime, we can learn some new things, too, I suppose.

I was "educated" using fundamentalist Christian "science" texts, so I never learned anything true about evolution until I was an adult.  Now I find it fascinating.  

Learning can be fun.  We just have to get the folks who already know everything to join in on the fun.  

Everyone please be sure to read the rules of this forum.  There is a link on the left side of this page coincidentally called "Rules".

Please, please be at your best behavior in this forum and watch the sarcasm.

And at the same time, a million Africans are starving to death, becuase people must eat to survive.

You've managed to leave out the rest of humanity in your equation.

You're begging the question that it's a good thing to eat. What about a world where everyone gleans their energy directly from the sun?

What about a world where energy intake isn't even required?

You've made the Panglossian error. 

zarathustra I would like to add on top of the "How many have died by uncooked chicken". "How many have died from pufferfish."

"I have the strangest urge to take my son's Lego blocks, put them into the clothes drier, and turn it on.  Perhaps in a billion years those blocks would form a house with a door, windows, a triangular roof, steps on the inside, and also several rooms as well."

 LOL!!!