(December 5, 2015 at 1:54 am)AAA Wrote: People have done the calculations. And the fact is that it is not likely that our planet would exist. Yes there are billions of galaxies with billions of stars, but the variables for a life sustaining planet must be set at very specific values (gravity, nuclear forces, cosmological constant). The fact that the laws of the universe must be a certain way for life show that either it just happened to be right the first time, or we are just one of many universes. Also your coin example is under exaggerating the issue.
People have done what calculations? You would cite if you knew.
Chances are that somebody may have done calculations and found that life as we know it, origin redux is unlikely, but that does not make our own existence particularly remarkable. Even if so, and this is doubtful because such an endeavor to prognosticate would be taken up by a narrow-minded Christian who's goal is not to discover anything but to disprove the work of others, this would not eliminate the possibility of life evolving elsewhere in a different form. Our universe is actually finite, but just how finite it is has been debated, and those like you with an agenda to prove would surely low-ball that figure.
As for life itself, the definition of this has broadened greatly over the past four decades, what with oceanographic research revealing life forms thriving, under conditions where it was previously believed that no life possibly could.
http://www.indiana.edu/~g105lab/images/g...nities.htm
No, Virginia, life does not depend on conditions to fall into place for it. Life digs its cleats into any toehold which it can hang onto, and then it makes its own ecosystem of any resources which it can draw energy from. It works this way because it's life which is alive, not its physical conditions and not its chemical elements. There's no evidence for your god in any of this.
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