(March 17, 2014 at 9:29 am)Alex K Wrote:(March 17, 2014 at 9:27 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Ditto.
But really he's saying, "No, no, not the puddle.. I'm here! And I'm asking a question so it must mean I'm made of some special stuff... that could only come about by even more special means than anything else in nature!"
And that's pretty much what evolution explains...if he had bothered to try to understand it.
And it's verbatim the fallacy which Adams describes in his talk.
Is there a link to his talk?
I got about 3/4 way through The Hitchhiker's Guide. Such a great book though I kick myself for never having finished it.