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To: Boogieman

I did address it. Life on Earth survived and evolved because it got lucky. Go take a probability class.

Meantime this may help you see the light... Throw a couple of dozen darts at a dart board (for the sake of argument, let’s say you’re not very good at darts and they strike the board at random). Was every point hit? Of course not.

Now imagine the dart board is the size of the Milky Way, 100,000 light years across. Instead of darts, now imagine you’re throwing supernovae at this galaxy-sized dart board. Was every point hit? Of course not. Not even if you threw one every 100 years for 4.5 billion years. Some regions of the galaxy are going to get lucky. Many won’t.


57 posted on 07/28/2016 10:28:38 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

“I did address it. Life on Earth survived and evolved because it got lucky. Go take a probability class.”

That’s hand waving away the problem, not addressing it. We know that a galaxy-wide sterilization event, whether one single event, or an aggregation of multiple events, DID NOT occur over the entire history of life on earth, or we would not be here.

You didn’t propose that the aggregation of events would sterilize most of the galaxy and leave some “lucky” pockets, so you’re moving the goalposts now instead of accepting the obvious.


59 posted on 07/28/2016 10:34:07 AM PDT by Boogieman
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