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Originally Posted by Obey
Things are put here for a reason, my man. Water, oxygen, food that grows from this earth, reproductive organs, etc.. that ALL has a purpose. We all got our beliefs, to me it's all too coincidentally perfect for me to think it just happened.
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This argument has a lot of flaws.
First off, it's not like every one of these things occurred independently. Instead, you would have had a cause (life forming), followed by an effect (evolution). Over time, the chain of cause and effect is going to lead to all those things you mentioned occurring. Also, as for "why the Earth is so perfect for life," that's itself a confusion of cause and effect. The Earth didn't adapt to us; rather, we adapted to it. If we had come from a planet with a temperature of 200 degrees and breathed vaporized mercury instead of oxygen, we would be talking about how coincidental and amazing it was that we, a species that thrives in those conditions, happened to be here.
Second, the
anthropic principle does not, in any way, require a universe driven by God or even a particular purpose. All that is required is that the universe be suitable for life of our variety to pop up. Consider just how large the universe is. Our galactic supercluster, which is already unfathomably huge, is just a teensy-tiny speck in the
observable universe - and the observable universe is a small fraction of the entire universe! In addition, the 10^500 universes potentially arising from string vacua, as well as the
googolplexes of universes splitting off from each event if
Everett's interpretation is right (which it may or may not be), mean that life not only
can arise, it
almost certainly will.
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Originally Posted by EtH
Rainbow Dash did NOT just give possibility to simulation theory...
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Oh no! I said something you dislike! Oh dear. I'll write up a public apology and deliver it as soon as possible. *hugs*