- Sep 28, 2001
- 8,464
- 155
- 106
It's the old argument brought up by creationists, that our existence, life in general, statistically seen, is "improbable" and thus must have been "designed".
Now, it is true that the universe had "chances" to develop in many different ways and that this universe which we observe today is a result of multiple almost rather "impossible" factors.
Examples
- The universe could have developed without the exactly tuned factors that ultimately bring about life
- The universe could have never developed at all, this "random" quantum fluctuation which at some point expanded into the universe could've never happened.
- The universe could have developed in almost infinite other ways where neither of them would bring about life (or gravity, matter, galaxies, planets etc.)
YET, HERE WE ARE.
Because we exist, we can trace back and see that many "impossible" things happened in just the right way, regardless how "impossible" they are, mathematically and statistically.
* Obviously, from a certain point of view this DOES speak for a pro-creationism argument.
or
* I am believing that this universe is one of (almost) infinite universes where we just happen to be in the one universe where "everything is right", but then there must be many more "other universes", including universes where life has never come about, where there is more antimatter than matter, where gravity might not have come about, universes where matter cannot exist etc....or whatever other factors
Differently speaking: How big is the chance that one, "the one" universe pops out of a quantum fluctuation and then develops in the way it did, bringing us about? Because - the chance that this happened IS actually extremely low.
Now, it is true that the universe had "chances" to develop in many different ways and that this universe which we observe today is a result of multiple almost rather "impossible" factors.
Examples
- The universe could have developed without the exactly tuned factors that ultimately bring about life
- The universe could have never developed at all, this "random" quantum fluctuation which at some point expanded into the universe could've never happened.
- The universe could have developed in almost infinite other ways where neither of them would bring about life (or gravity, matter, galaxies, planets etc.)
YET, HERE WE ARE.
Because we exist, we can trace back and see that many "impossible" things happened in just the right way, regardless how "impossible" they are, mathematically and statistically.
* Obviously, from a certain point of view this DOES speak for a pro-creationism argument.
or
* I am believing that this universe is one of (almost) infinite universes where we just happen to be in the one universe where "everything is right", but then there must be many more "other universes", including universes where life has never come about, where there is more antimatter than matter, where gravity might not have come about, universes where matter cannot exist etc....or whatever other factors
Differently speaking: How big is the chance that one, "the one" universe pops out of a quantum fluctuation and then develops in the way it did, bringing us about? Because - the chance that this happened IS actually extremely low.