RE: Life is at the center of everything
March 9, 2014 at 10:19 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2014 at 10:27 am by Heywood.)
(March 9, 2014 at 2:51 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(March 9, 2014 at 2:47 am)Rahul Wrote: Did you check out the page he linked? Pretty cool. I think that was reason enough for the thread.
Yeah, I've seen it - it is indeed very cool. I'm just questioning the meaning the OP appears to be giving life's relative location on the scale. Maybe he isn't, and I'm reading between the lines something that isn't there. Just curious what his point is - if there is one.
Well lets go ahead and discuss this from a theistic perspective. Suppose God created the Universe such that He wanted life to emerge in multiple places. If He did this He couldn't put each emergent colony at the center of things geographically. If earth is at the center then the Wookies in the far far away galaxy are offset. This would make the Wookies very upset....and as I am sure you know....its not wise to upset a Wookie.
What God can do to give life a special place in the Universe...no matter where it is.....is put life in the center of things in terms of scale. Now every emergent colony of life has reason to give Praise to God Almighty.
Now lets discuss this from a non theistic perspective. Life is where it is on the scale because it has to be in the middle. If it were much smaller there wouldn't be enough atoms making up the organism to generate the necessary complexity. If it were much bigger the speed of light would retard its ability to think and move about the world.
Imagine a brain the size of the orbit of the earth. It might take hours for that brain to perform simple calculations like 2+2 because signals from one neuron could take 16 minutes to travel to another neuron on the other side of the brain.
Life can't exist on either end of the scale. It has to be in the middle....so it is in the middle....simple as that.
(March 9, 2014 at 10:12 am)Menos Wrote: yea i always wondered if we waz really small or really big.
The earth isn't a cosmic speck as some people sometimes think. Its actually one of the larger things in the Universe. I wouldn't say the earth and humans are really big things....but cosmically speaking...they are big things.....just not really big things.
