(February 20, 2015 at 8:54 am)Wychdoctyr Wrote: sure seems like those chemical process fight like hell to stay in that piece of dirt .... aware if they are trapped in a burning car ...
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Yes. And your computer can be "aware" of and defend itself against a virus, even though it's all just 1s and 0s being coded in, transmitted by and decoded from electrical impulses. And our computers don't come even close to the complexity of our bodies and especially brains.
We evolved over billions of years from primitive, single-cell life-forms. Who knows where they came from and what made them "want" to survive, but since they did - that's a defining characteristic of all earthly life. Those early organisms and life-forms that were not aware of or "indifferent" to the end of their existence - stopped existing and are not here to testify about how they didn't care for their survival in certain circumstances (although we have plenty of data on what made more advanced organisms succeed, or not).
You are looking at this from the perspective of a lottery winner. Sure it seems unlikely, but if it happened - it happened, because here you are. Assuming design and/or designer/creator may be fun and games, but Occam's Razor makes short work of this proposition right now, because there's no evidence for it and evolution seems to explain everything pretty elegantly, while being a way simpler solution.
We know that it's possible (though very unlikely) to win the lottery, because of the mathematics. I don't have to win the lottery on demand, to prove that. Nor do I need to prove that one can - way more easily - lose at the lottery. But without some knowledge of math and probablities, someone who won at first try may find it difficult to imagine that countless others lost countless times. And someone who always lost may doubt the mere possibility of winning.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
