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Originally Posted by pjalne
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Originally Posted by Preechr
Something with a will? The existence in which we find ourselves is too perfectly ordered for me to believe it to be for the purpose of random events to take place for random reasons.
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But see, it's not random. If we take evolution as an example, the actual changes of traits might be random, at least as random as they can be when based on preexisting DNA structure. But the survival of these new traits is anything BUT random. This new trait has to answer to a preexisting environment, and if it doesn't make the cut, it goes away. |
PJLANE,
This seems to the argument of all that do not posses an adequate sense of proportion, probability and infinite numeracy.
Indeed, doesn't the fact that there are billions of VISIBLE stars out there suggest to you, Preechr, that the odds that there is life outside our own is much greater than the alternative ... or is it just a fireworks display put on by God for our enjoyment?
Of course, you're going to respond that even given the same elemental distribution as Earth as well as other peripheral factors, odds are that life such as ours would be equally improbable. In the interest of time conservation, I would argue that, while it is true that life exactly like ours is improbable, life relatively similiar to ours is not.
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