Here's my approach...
We are here. Life is here.
1.) Dumb luck.
Eliminate the likelihood of one and...viola...the other is then the likeliest explanation, via deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, or any other process of logical reasoning one cares to choose.
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So far, attempts to estimate the "dumb luck" option, which I assume encompasses all possible natural causes, have all either:
It seems you are on the right track here, and your concept is correct. Now, just go the one step further and realize that the idea of an intelligent designer is absolutely preposterous and you'll have the answer.
Considering the collective IQ of most of our fundies & the mindblowing fact that they haven't blown up the planet yet, I'm going to go with dumb luck on this one. At this point, very, very dumb luck.
Sigh - yet another who never learned statistics or whose brain shuts down when trying to deal with numbers greater than a certain magnitude.
"Here's my approach... It is unclear whether you are spouting off against abiogenesis or evolution, but here goes.
"1.) Dumb luck."
Mutations happen randomly, but natural selection is not a random (dumb) process.
"2.) Intelligent Design."
Translation: "We couldn't figure out the answer, so we made this one up."
"Eliminate the likelihood of one and...viola...the other is then the likeliest explanation, via deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, or any other process of logical reasoning one cares to choose."
However, you proceed from the premise that an all-knowing, all-powerful, ever-existing, supernatural creator is more likely than life arising and/or evolving by natural means. Your premise is incorrect.
I think some people feel that their life has more meaning if someone up there specifically planned them for a purpose, and feel that if life was created by some random chance, it makes their existence meaningless. Which is silly. Of course, these are the same people who say they'd turn to drug use and crime if they discovered God didn't exist...
Oh crap... Intelligent design is merely a large amount of wishful thinking and fallacious strawmen, every single one of which has been disproven in a court of law by actual evidence. It was never about finding answers it was about undermining evolution in order to profit.
"Am I the only one shocked because they're arguing about ID vs. Evolution on a site devoted to a series of sci-fi movies??"
False dilemma (or, at the very least, a poor description of option #1). He also lacks understanding of the Law of Large Numbers (to wit, one in a million is pretty likely if you get a million tries).
Well, I think Darth proves the Intelligent Design option is off the table, so I guess it's Dumb Luck.
We are here via one of two ways...
1. Something WASN'T created, but created us, made up lots and lots of phony evidence, wrote a book, and then left.
2. Evolution adapted us to our environment.
Eliminate the likeliness of one..
Dumb Luck.
Bullshit at any level you wanna play.
"1.) Dumb luck."
This is the absolute and the unifying theory,
I'll define shit when any of y'all can explain the Holy Ghost.
Confused?
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