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Life
September 9th, 2006 by nullifidian
Life is a law of our universe, like the mathematical, physical and chemical laws. When conditions are right, stars explode into supernovae. When conditions are right, stuff organizes itself into life. The gap between animate and inanimate came pre-bridged. Obligatory Carl Sagan quote:
“We’ve begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness….”
Intelligent Design proponents are bothered by the thought of complex life being common self-assembly of star-stuff.
It makes no sense to be bothered by the spontaneous evolution of complex life forms when nothing is or can be understood about the ultimate reasons for the existence of mathematical and physical laws. Math, physics and life are just the way the universe behaves. They are all spontaneously complex, on their own.
Existence is no more or less bewildering because of the presence of life. Max bewilderment is achieved just by having anything be.
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September 27th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
I think it’d be more bewildering if pianos grew on trees and hamburgers ate people. Don’t give up on an explanation for existance just yet, we’ve had a pretty good track record of explaining the unexplainable so far, it just takes a while.