Glen Davidson
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| Quote (JohnW @ Oct. 08 2010,17:15) | batshit77 ends one of his privileged-planet, my-legs-are-long-enough-to-reach-the-ground tardalogues with:
| Quote | | On and on through each characteristic we can possibly measure water with, it turns out to be required to be almost exactly as it is or complex life on this earth could not exist. No other liquid in the universe comes anywhere near matching water in its fitness for life (Denton: Nature’s Destiny). |
So a really good piece of evidence for the existence of god would be if our biochemistry depended on some other, much less suitable liquid, like benzene or mercury. |
Because, of course, a liquid that kills cells when it freezes is perfect for life.
Sure, it might be better than one that contracts when it freezes on this haphazard planet with its many regions that are inhospitable toward life, because the oceans might very well end up filled with ice. Then again, why should that matter if humans were the goal--as far as I can see, expansion is fortunate for humans in the evolutionary scenario because life evolved in water and would need many niches to become varied (and usefully complex), while in a design scenario anything would be possible regardless of how water behaved when it froze.
On anything like an ideal planet, we'd be without areas in which to freeze to death, thus rendering water's destructive force moot, but also causing ice's property of floating on liquid water to be equally unimportant.
Glen Davidson
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