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- From: afwendy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (WENDY WARTNICK)
- Subject: Re: Odds of Life
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- Date: 31 Jul 1992 12:17 EST
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- In article <ceS9ElO00WB6Egy2J_@andrew.cmu.edu>, David O Hunt <dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes...
- >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:
- >
- >1) That life arrived from another place (accidentally or purposefully)
- >
- >2) That "God" created us
- >
- >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.
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- I guess more importantly about 2)....
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- If G-d created humans on this planet..why not anywhere else? Why create a
- whole universe of empty planets? I know people will say..."well! one can
- never know the Lords mind!" Good dead end argument...
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- I do not know why some people have such a hard time accepting the
- possibility that humans may not be some unique creation.
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- wendy
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