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I am a little religious (deist and Quaker background) so it's easy for me to hand-wave away the origins of life as divine, but I often think about how life coul
by quacked 3y ago
I am a little religious (deist and Quaker background) so it's easy for me to hand-wave away the origins of life as divine, but I often think about how life could have arisen completely randomly. This line:
> everybody in the world hitting the lottery number every day for a billion years. or something.
is something I totally agree with, but the amusing confounding factor is that if "time" is infinite, then this exact scenario would happen infinity times.
Whatever the origins of life are, I'm certainly glad to be here.
- FrontierPsych 3y ago>if "time" is infinite And if a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass every time he hopped. But back to reality, there is not infinite time and matter. All that heat death of the universe and everything. The arrow of time. Just becaues the concept of infinity exists, doesn't mean something can happen. For example, I have started reading James Joyce's Ulysses probably a dozen times how and have never been able to get more than a few pages into it. I know if there was infinity time, I'd never be able to get more than a few pages into that book. It's mathematically proven.
- chasd00 3y agoyeah on a long enough timeline all probabilities = 1
- kevinventullo 3y agoYet the earth is widely believed to be only a few billion years old!
- TeMPOraL 3y agoEnter the anthropic principle. Our Earth is one planet out of some hundreds of billions of planets the galaxy likely has, out of however many billions of galaxies are there. Earth is just the planet (likely one of many planets) that won the lottery.