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excellent use/timing of anthropic principle

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>> ^MINK:
I love (hate) how he skips over the whole "abiogenesis" thing, then explains about some lightning but doesn't say where the lightning comes from, etc. etc...


Do you want some more abiogenesis talk? One point that I would have brought up is how unlikely it seems that the first self-replicating life would just fall into place one day. If you get a bunch of chemicals together, it probably won't create life. But if you get an entire planet with chemical oceans for over a billion years, then it starts to get more likely that life would happen.

But then you have to remember the anthropic principle! We're going to find ourselves on whatever planet that life happens to occur on. We guess that there are about 10^20 planets in our universe, and the universe is about 13.7 billion years old. So even if life falling into place at any time on a whole planet has a probability of 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000, we can expect it to happen at least once. And here we are.

When I take that into account, life seems pretty probable to me. You could make up a god to explain it, but I don't see the need.




written by dannym3141  | 5 days 3 hours 34 minutes ago | CH
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Do you mean god=reality or do you mean that one can't percieve reality unless one atleast cares enough to look for reality?

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If he doesn't care if god exists, I guess he doesn't care about being correct or living in reality.


written by FishBulb  | 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Its from Burning Man. Check out these pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11785864@N02/sets/72157601959272455/

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What is that a picture of?


written by eric3579  | 11 months 1 week ago | CH
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Hi, brain... I thought my reply was funny when I first typed it and imbecile when I read it the following day. I like the clip you posted nevertheless.

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