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Old 12-28-2005, 10:34 AM
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Default Re: Book: Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe

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One example... Your talking about a flying rock, what if it were 1,000,000,000 rocks that hit 1,000,000,000 different houses in order and landed on the words that rewrote a shakespeare classic? Is it the same, well those 1,000,000,000 rocks had to land somewhere...
I think there has to be a limit to this kind of thinking, will no amount of coincidences that point towards a creator ever make you think "maybe it's not a mistake"??

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The laws of physics and the properties of matter select for certain structures. There is order in the seeming randomness, which is not the case with monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare. This is the fundamental flaw in this analogy.
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