The Statistical Improbability of Life
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:35 pm
From The Ethical Skeptic:
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/02/2 ... nd-letter/
This in summary reaction to the 1 in 2.7 sextillion odds against the human genome and related phenomena:...it is one thing to claim a single grand accident under the idea, ‘Grant me one miracle and I can explain all the rest’. We stomach such miracles of science all the time, at the very least to serve as placeholders until we attain better information. However it is another thing entirely to demand in the name of science, six miracles inside a tight sequence, in order to protect one’s religious beliefs.
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In order to advance as mankind, we will need open our minds to possibilities which address, not mere ‘gaps’ in our knowledge, but rather vast barren domains of Nelsonian ignorance. Unfortunately our Wittgenstein definitions and religious assumptions regarding the appearance of life on Earth, are serving to bias us into an extreme corner of statistically remote plausibility, from which we staunchly refuse to budge.
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/02/2 ... nd-letter/