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I was thinking the other day is life on earth a fluke or was it inevitable?

What do you think? Any explanation would be nice to hear!!



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How do you define fluke and how do you define inevitable? And how do you define life? Sentient life or microbial life?

The fact that we were able to develop highly complex organisms on this planet was a fluke. Developing microbial organisms was closer to inevitable, but certainly not what I would call inevitable.



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we are a random generation of numbers, out of the millions of stars and galaxys there has to be atleast a planet with life and that is us, meybe theres more.



 

akuma587 said:

How do you define fluke and how do you define inevitable? And how do you define life? Sentient life or microbial life?

The fact that we were able to develop highly complex organisms on this planet was a fluke. Developing microbial organisms was closer to inevitable, but certainly not what I would call inevitable.

 

Even if microbial organisms were "inevitable" then it's a fluke that the Earth has the exact conditions that it does to make microbial organisms "inevitable."

 


I don't know how you can call it inevitable though, since we still have no idea how non organic "primidorial soup" changes into life.



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No idea? Come on, do some research on your own. We have created relatively complex self-produced and self-replicating molecules in laboratories with similar conditions as those on early Earth within the span of a few decades. Not to mention the Earth was around for at least a billion years before any life showed up. A lot of things can happen in a billion years.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

there are too many variables to be anything more than the work of a greater power.



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If you don't think about something happening on Earth specifically but instead think about the plethora of planets that are out there in the universe then it does start to feel like life on one of them was inevitable just based on random chance.

Thinking about what exactly it took for Earth to start life is a bit more difficult, but at a certain point of variety and concentration of certain chemicals it does seem rather inevitable that over time life would emerge.



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Nothing just “exists” there has to be a reason and a creator. A game can’t create it self and there is a reason to why it is created so I don’t believe in the fluke theory.



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