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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:15:29 -0400
- From: David O Hunt <dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Odds of Life
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- IF (big if) one assumes that the probablilty of life arising on earth is
- so small that it couldn't happen, then there are only 2 possiblities
- for our existance:
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- 1) That life arrived from another place (accidentally or purposefully)
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- 2) That "God" created us
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- About 1) - this only delays talk, as SOMEwhere down the line life had to
- arise spontaneously...kinda like the "turtles all the way down [to what?]"
- argument.
- About 2) - If we assume that the odds are impossibly small for life to
- have arisen anywhere, then this proves "God's" existence.
-
- But wait! We've proven something that can't be proven. And so God
- vanishes in a puff of logic (with apologies to D. Adams).
-
- Ergo, we aren't alive at all! :P
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- David Hunt - Graduate Slave | My mind is my own. | Towards both a
- Mechanical Engineering | So are my ideas & opinions. | Palestinian and
- Carnegie Mellon University | <<<Use Golden Rule v2.0>>> | Jewish homeland!
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