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Insignificance can be beautiful!
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Insignificance can be beautiful!
I just watched a debate between Michael Shermer and John Lennox, and in Shermer's final closing argument, he read from his book "Why Darwin Matters" (great book btw). I find this argument, though it shows how insignificant we really are, one of the most beautiful:
Quote:"What science tells us is that we are but one among hundreds of millions of species that evolved over the course of three and a half billion years on one tiny planet among many orbiting an ordinary star, itself one of possibly billions of solar systems in an ordinary galaxy that contains hundreds of billions of stars, itself located in a cluster of galaxies not so different from millions of other galaxy clusters, themselves whirling away from one another in an expanding cosmic bubble universe that very possibly is only one among a near infinite number of bubble universes. Is it really possible that this entire cosmological multiverse was designed and exists for one tiny subgroup of a single species on one planet in a lone galaxy in that solitary bubble universe? It seems unlikely."
This is beauty on a scale that no believer could ever adhere to. Who agrees?
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Insignificance can be beautiful! - by Tiberius - November 7, 2008 at 5:11 pm
RE: Insignificance can be beautiful! - by Darwinian - November 7, 2008 at 5:16 pm
RE: Insignificance can be beautiful! - by Edwardo Piet - November 7, 2008 at 9:08 pm
RE: Insignificance can be beautiful! - by leo-rcc - November 8, 2008 at 9:12 am
RE: Insignificance can be beautiful! - by Edwardo Piet - November 8, 2008 at 10:25 am
RE: Insignificance can be beautiful! - by Daystar - November 8, 2008 at 2:18 pm
RE: Insignificance can be beautiful! - by Edwardo Piet - November 8, 2008 at 3:43 pm
RE: Insignificance can be beautiful! - by Jason Jarred - November 12, 2008 at 7:41 pm
RE: Insignificance can be beautiful! - by Edwardo Piet - November 12, 2008 at 7:59 pm
RE: Insignificance can be beautiful! - by Tiberius - November 8, 2008 at 2:46 pm
RE: Insignificance can be beautiful! - by Meatball - November 15, 2008 at 12:02 am

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