"Creationists are an embarrassment to conservatism.."
Have you ever given a coherent, short answer to explain how our world with all its life came about? Luck is it?
Been thinking about this one. Didn't mean to keep you waiting but in a way it's an interesting question.
The short answer is that I've probably tried it, but it was a mistake if I did. The stunning thing, at least now that I've thought about it, is that anyone would expect a reasonably informative answer on the Origin of Everything to be short, especially since by conventional accounts the origin of life comes long (some ten billion years) after the origin of the universe.
Of course, "God" is a short answer. The problem is that, for people who don't already think they know all that, it's uninformative.
"Luck" is a short answer, too, but I'm not sure much luck was needed to get intelligent life in the universe, at least in the one we have. "Physics, chemistry, and chaotic phenomena on planets in favorable orbits," is about as short as I'd want to go but even that is just asking for it.
Short answers just generate a barrage of know-nothing questions. And, come right down to it, if you want a short answer for "life, the universe, and everything," you don't want an answer at all.