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No, not "Perfect Chance." More like "Fortunate Chance."
In the Great Cosic game of Chance, We got rolled a 7. Of course, that isn't saying that we couldn't have benefited from an 11 but it's just how the Dice fell this one time.
Yes ToE explains all this nicely. Descent with modification by means of natural/sexual selection.ToE explains everything I know, but not without hope, chance or faith. So has ToE figured out when we fianlly were able to see and how long we groped around in the darkness? lookng for a mate? looking for food? Our eyes knew there was going to be things to see so thats why they developed? Where did that info come from? Two eyes , how convinient. Just by perfect chance.
You sure told me. I am totally convinced now. Everything we see and have all came about by perfect chance.
I thought for sure there was an intelligence behind it. All that information just happened to happen. Lucky us. We will just take it for granted and ignore any other possibilities.
Every since you came in here I have noticed your responses to be filled with a haughtiness and pride.
You consider yourself an expert and no can can tell you nothing.
Rather your going to set us straight. Your pretending to be a Christian, right?
ToE explains everything I know, but not without hope, chance or faith.
So has ToE figured out when we fianlly were able to see and how long we groped around in the darkness?
lookng for a mate? looking for food? Our eyes knew there was going to be things to see so thats why they developed?
Where did that info come from? Two eyes , how convinient. Just by perfect chance.
The way things are then are becasue of perfect chance? Is that what you are saying?
I thought you believed in God.
One time. FOR ALL THIS? Are you kidding me? The dice would of had to fall by chance multi millions of times on the number seven to give us EVREYTHING we have. WOW. Nice try though.
Stop saying God-of-the-gaps everyone.
I meant sort of the way things are are the way they are because, at the very least - by guided process, God caused them to be so. Personally, I don't believe that God created a single cell and then went on a long holiday or something, and when he came back the cell had suprisingly evolved, all by itself. That's a "God-of-the-WhoopsShouldHaveKeptAnEyeOnThat" fallacy, which - believing in an omnipresent, omnipotent God - I cannot believe in.
Yes ToE explains all this nicely. Descent with modification by means of natural/sexual selection.
"Perfect chance" had absolutely nothing to do with it. Life only had to evolve just once. That's it, once. The antrhopic principle is like a puddle saying look how perfect this hole is that holds us.
Whats the alternative?
The sun by perfect chance is the right distance from the earth.
The earth by perfect chance is the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere of the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal and human life.
The moon by perfect chance is the right distance from the earth for its gravitational pull.
By perfect chance the moon creates important ocean tides and movement so ocean waters do not stagnate, and yet our massive oceans are restrained from spilling over across the continents.
By perfect chance we have water which is colorless, odorless and without taste, and yet no living thing can survive without it. Plants, animals and human beings consist mostly of water (about two-thirds of the human body is water). You'll see why the characteristics of water are uniquely suited to life.
By perfect chance water has an unusually high boiling point and freezing point. Water allows us to live in an environment of fluctuating temperature changes, while keeping our bodies a steady 98.6 degrees.
By perfect chance water is a universal solvent. This property of water means that thousands of chemicals, minerals and nutrients can be carried throughout our bodies and into the smallest blood vessels.
By perfect chance water is also chemically neutral. Without affecting the makeup of the substances it carries, water enables food, medicines and minerals to be absorbed and used by the body.
By perfect chance water has a unique surface tension. Water in plants can therefore flow upward against gravity, bringing life-giving water and nutrients to the top of even the tallest trees.
By perfect chance water freezes from the top down and floats, so fish can live in the winter.
By perfect chance ninety-seven percent of the Earth's water is in the oceans. But on our Earth, there is a system designed which removes salt from the water and then distributes that water throughout the globe. Evaporation takes the ocean waters, leaving the salt, and forms clouds which are easily moved by the wind to disperse water over the land, for vegetation, animals and people. It is a system of purification and supply that sustains life on this planet, a system of recycled and reused water.
By perfect chance the human brain simultaneously processes an amazing amount of information. Your brain takes in all the colors and objects you see, the temperature around you, the pressure of your feet against the floor, the sounds around you, the dryness of your mouth, even the texture of your keyboard. Your brain holds and processes all your emotions, thoughts and memories. At the same time your brain keeps track of the ongoing functions of your body like your breathing pattern, eyelid movement, hunger and movement of the muscles in your hands.
By perfect chance The human brain processes more than a million messages a second. Your brain weighs the importance of all this data, filtering out the relatively unimportant. This screening function is what allows you to focus and operate effectively in your world. The brain functions differently than other organs. There is an intelligence to it, the ability to reason, to produce feelings, to dream and plan, to take action, and relate to other people.
By perfect chance the eye can distinguish among seven million colors. It has automatic focusing and handles an astounding 1.5 million messages -- simultaneously. Evolution focuses on mutations and changes from and within existing organisms. Yet evolution alone does not fully explain the initial source of the eye or the brain -- the start of living organisms from nonliving matter.
By perfect chance we can identify laws of nature that never change and observe the universe which is so orderly, so reliable .
There are many more "by perfect chance" items I found, but I will close with a verse.
Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, "There is no God.
Take just one of these things I listed away and see how we would do.
Exactly! This very moment is the combined outcome of a series of random events that culmulated in where we are right now.
But what you seem to be missing is that the die didn't always land on 7. The dice fell on snake-eyes again and again countless times before 7 came up and even many times after! But it all started with the first 7 that was rolled.
In the Beginning, there were but a single set of dice. Just how many times those dice were thrown will never be known but all it took was for it to land on 7 once. After that, for each 7 rolled, another pair were added to the pool.
And those dice are still being rolled even now. But keep in mind, 7 still rarely comes up in the grand scheme of the universe but with enough Dice constantly being rolled, we're bound to hit the jackpot given enough time.
And that's all you need to remember about the universe.
Well then its obvious then. Natural selection is your god . Nothing guiding it or telling it or directing it. Its doing ALL THIS on its own. No intelligence behind it at all. just random happenings. Chance has to be in there somewhere. Lots and big time chance. Air to breath, lungs to breath with, brain to think and do. Eyes to see. Sun strategically placed. Moon, very important. Water, totally necessary. Heart to pump that blood through many miles of veins. Reproduction system, respiratory system, muscular system, skeletal system, nervous system. Food for the stomach and the stomach for food. Take just one of these things I listed away and see how we would do. Now according to the theory we started out as a single cell. SO all these things just came along over time due to natural selection.Lol, and people scoff at the idea that God did it?
If the Anthropic Principle is a PRATT, then why isn't there life on every single planet in this solar system --- including their moons?
It sure is!To get a grasp on the amount of mutations we are dealing with here...
A recent experiment on bacteria went through 40,000 generations to produce a single change that enabled it to digest something it had not previously been able to handle. Between humans and a putative human-ape ancestor ten million years ago there are a maximum of perhaps one million generations, depending on the reproductive age at different stages. On the basis of the experimental evidence, that gives time for about 25 minor changes in an asexual species. At a minimum some 30 million changes are required, all of which have to be fixed in the genes despite the hurdles of sexual reproduction.
That's a many-many-many-sided dice
... it's a sphere!
Your right if you believe that. Its a CRAP shoot for sure. Have faith it happened that way. I will put my faith elsewhere.
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