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[Deleted member 63160]

"I deal out four hands and we pick them up and look at them. Now what is the probability that we would get those four hands? It's so small that the chances of dealing them again are virtually zero - but there they are and we're playing them right now."

The point to note is that the number of paths that evolution could have taken is off the scale. We just happen to have got this one.

That IMO is a brilliant analogy.

 

[EddieM]

I accept evolution as by far the most likely method of how we all got here (sorry !!), creationism etc is just rubbish.

I understand thermodynamics pretty well, but the one thing that has always puzzled me though is this.

Why bother with life at all ? it is thermodynamically unstable. seems like a lot of unnecessary and ultimately futile bother to me?

 

[Diane2]

Why bother with life at all ?

you're a little ray of sunshine today

 

[Space cat]

Why bother with life at all ? it is thermodynamically unstable. seems like a lot of unnecessary and ultimately futile bother to me?

You could say the same about stars. They spend billions of years fusing protons into helium - with heavier elements to follow - in a desperate attempt to defeat their own gravity. Then they implode.

A lot of unnecessary and ultimately futile bother? Maybe, but I bet you don't complain when the nearest one puts in an occasional appearance. Anybody seen it recently?

 

[Micilin]

Radio 4 had a piece on th eneed for a Worldwide agreement to conserve Helium. You would have liked it.

 

[ladylola]

Why bother with life at all seems like a lot of unnecessary and ultimately futile bother to me?

You could say the same about stars. They spend billions of years fusing protons into helium - with heavier elements to follow - in a desperate attempt to defeat their own gravity. Then they implode.

A lot of unnecessary and ultimately futile bother:

futility , that'll be god's little joke then