Confronting Friends and Family

[Aractus]

Wrong. Populations compete against themselves, as do individuals and species. In the end, howerver, competition doesn't matter. What matters is who lives long enough to have offsprings and who doesn't.

Sex disproves your theory. Sexual reproduction reduces the rate of reproduction by 50%. Therefore it must have some other quality that makes it extremely beneficial; it must serve the interests of the species more than it serves the interests of the individual...

You need to produce detailed, relevant evidence that this "mysterious force" exists before we start taking it seriously. What you have done so far is present some supposed "flaws" of the theory of evolution that have been explained several times by scientists far more successful and qualified than you or me.

Everything you don't understand is a "mysterious force"?

I'm not saying that life (or a substitute thereof) would pop up in any possible universe, I'm just saying that our universe is not as special as you think it is.

Well it's the only universe, that itself makes it pretty special right there.

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NASA has discovered a new life form, a bacteria called GFAJ-1 that is unlike anything currently living in planet Earth. It's capable of using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes. This changes everything.

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

I can't believe you're quoting that old news as if it's groundbreaking stuff. The six "fundamental" elements used in the building blocks of life are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, and phosphorus. GFAJ-1 is simply capable of substituting arsenic for phosphorus. Or at least that's what NASA claimed in January 2010, there are now papers that question their findings altogether link and link.