(April 9, 2014 at 12:15 pm)Heywood Wrote: Which flabbergast me because without knowing the probability of abiogenesis happening if the conditions are right and not knowing how often right conditions come along this is a stupid claim to make
we know it happened at least once so it gives us a start.
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If life originating requires a series of highly improbable parlays it could easily whittle down the odds down so much that it becomes improbable life exists anywhere else.
The universe is vast and there are a large number of planets and comets and moons that could support life so there are lots of chances.
Quote:These physicist and mathematicians who make claims like this would be horrible gamblers.
And yet you believe in an unproven illogical entity.
Quote:I just want to know how we've arrived at a statistical measurement of the probability of life occurring from a sample size of one.
If something happens once it increases the likely hood that given similar circumstances it could happen again.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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