qetzal
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Joined: Feb. 2006
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Avocationist, I'll try to explain.
| Quote | | You seem to be saying that, yes, the chances of life occurring are indeed one divided by many trillions, but it was just the way the random shuffle happened to fall. Nonetheless, there is something noteworthy about the fact that we have a planet teeming with millions of life forms when the chances of that were vanishingly small. I don't think we need to extrapolate further about having specified it in advance. Now, you can say that each and every shuffle of the deck is also very unlikely. But we can also say that they all do nothing different from one another, nor would a random shuffling of pebbles and shells on the beach. No matter how many times the waves toss them about, and no matter that each one is unlikely if specified in advance, they also do not stand out one from another in any discernable way. But that one shuffle - life, does. |
No.
1. We have no idea of the chances of life occurring. We know of one universe. We know there's life in our tiny, tiny, remote corner of it. That's all we know. We can't even say whether life is likely anywhere else in this universe, much less how unlikely the universe itself is.
2. Even if we knew that life was a very unlikely outcome, that tells us nothing about God. How do we know that life is a special outcome, and not just one outcome at random? We don't.
Of course, it's special to us. But that's not relevant to this discussion. You're assuming life is special to God. That God created life because that's what he wanted. And you may be right. The existence of life is consistent with that belief, but it isn't evidence for it.
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