I'm not sure what that has to do with the "everything is perfect for us to live here" argument. Yes, we could have turned out differently, but we didn't. We have evolved in accordance with the environmental factors that surrounded us.kouriichi said:Heres the thing though. We could have evolved so many different ways the thought of it is almost scary. Theres a good chance we could have grown scales instead. Or never got fingers.Sam Macartney said:How else would you expect life that has evolved around these things to look like? This argument is silly because not only is it irrelevant, but it's also an incorrect assertion. If you put red colouring in cake batter to bake a cake, would you expect it to come out green? I think not, and the same can be said about allowing life to evolve around certain conditions. It's going to look like things are perfect or coincidental, otherwise it wouldn't have flourished!kouriichi said:Lol. Never said my answer was more valid. And i never would.oktalist said:But I know what my favourite food is. I don't have to guess. And I can test what my favourite food is by trying lots of different kinds of food and rating each one. (It's curry, if you're curious.)kouriichi said:Why guess?oktalist said:So what is the point of guessing about something which is unknowable?
Because its better to have an answer? xD
"Whats your favorite food?"
"I dunno."
I don't agree that it's better to have an answer if you can't say whether that answer is any more or less valid than the competing answers. Might as well believe a different religion each day, and atheism on Sundays.![]()
xD I just say that FOR ME in particular, its the best answer.
To me it makes more sense.
Sure, random things happening is highly believable, and on a large scale i believe it.
But to the extent of our solar system being formed just as it needed to be, the sun being the proper temperature, the evolutionary lines created.... Every factor is just right for us to exist.
I believe in chances. Even if the chances of it happening were one in...... a few trillion, i would believe it was just luck. But in reality, the chances of it happening the way it did are way more astronomical then that.
This, my belief is that something had a hand in it for the odds to be beat. Something we probably cant comprehend.
Theres a chance our brain would have stayed tiny, because it was the best option at the time.
Saying, "This protoplasm is human, and will become human" makes no sense either, because it will change and evolve based on what its species needs to survive.
your analogy of "red coloring in a cake" doesnt apply to life, because life changes, and food coloring doesnt xD
But the another thing to it is, what if hands werent the best evolutionary option at the time? What if walking upright was a detriment to humans as we were evolving? There are so many other possibilities to how we could of evolved instead of how we did, you cant calculate it xD
You want a weird animal? Have a look at an Octopus. There's evolution that doesn't make sense.