(April 4, 2014 at 11:08 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Heywood, can you tell us what are the exact conditions required for life? If you can't, then you are making an unjustified assumption in believing life could never have come about if conditions were drastically different. The fact is, the fundamental laws are pretty simple. You don't gain anything by positing an additional mystery. Why does God have the Universe-making conditions he supposedly has? That's far a more mysterious and irreproachably uninteresting question.
I'm arguing about emergent complexity....not life. I don't know how to quantify emergent complexity....although I think about the problem a lot. I know that in general random conditions do not lead to emergent complexity.
If you or others are not familiar with emergent complexity the following is a good introductory video. It has Neil Degrass Tyson in it.
