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Re: Sentience: one species per planet

Posted By: tiger (ool-18bc7ff7.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: 1/29/2001 at 10:14 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Sentience: one species per planet (David Bricker)

One of the most sound arguements for religion is the very fact that the chances of everything occuring exactly as it did, the way it did, are literally next to zero. What are the CHANCES that life just HAPPENED to develop, and that the atoms in chromosomes just HAPPENDED to bond together in such a way, and that they just HAPPEN to work together in order to create/maintin life... these odds are quite small. Basically, as Thomas Aquinas wrote, there has to be a God/some form of directed order otherwise this (life/technology/complex organisms) could not occur. Astrophysics takes this to another level- if indeed there was a big bang, what started it? Where did the mass/energy come from? Must there be an "in the beginning?"

Yes, there is randomness and order and many times they happen to be the same thing- just look at quantum physics and the principle behind it. But the truth is, it is indeed possible, even with all these scientific establishments and incredible accomplishments stating that there is nothing out there that there remains a hole in every story- there always seems to be room for God.

BTW, i'm agnostic- but that story of the Christian apologist simply made me feel like ranting.

: The great biologist E.O. Wilson was once approached by a
: Christian apologist, who asserted life cannot be
: generated by random processes, because it is so
: clearly ordered. Wilson, in defeating the poor
: apologist by pointing out that sea shells line up
: nicely on the beach due to the action of erratic wave
: action, did NOT make the argument that all outcomes
: are random, just that the processes giving rise to
: outcomes are always random. I just posted about this
: because it's a cool story, and it supports your
: random-cause argument above, Forrest. :)

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