On 2/20/06, Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone just pointed me to this, which is very apropos: > > http://tinyurl.com/alrzj > > Bob
I'm not sure what Mr. Kurzweil is getting at, but I don't know why people think it's such a huge co-incidence that everything in this universe works so well WRT life and our existence here (there's still not a shred of proof that there's life anywhere else, BTW - the probabilities may be what they are, but there's not proof). And, just because the conditions for life and it's continuance are so amazing, why is that evidence of intelligent design? We don't know how many other big bangs there have been that amounted to nothing, that collapsed into themselves in short order, or rapidly expanded into the continuum before life could evolve. We don't know how many other universes came from big bangs that may not have had the right amount of carbon to sustain life. We don't know how many other universes may be in existence at this time that don't have the right conditions for life as we know it. It could be that this is indeed a one in a trillion phenomenon, and we just happen to be lucky enough to be along for the ride. So what? cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
