The author throughout the article states how unlikely it is that the Earth and humanity have beat the odds and escaped annihilation for billions of years.
But no where did it ever occur to him to suggest the hand of God in the preservation of humanity.
Even with scientist continually find new and more bazar ways that the Earth or at least mankind should have been wiped out the possibility of an intelligent designer is ignored.
The sheer number of synchronized unlikely conditions which render Earth capable of life could make it the only such one in the galaxy. Or there could be a hundred million others. We have no basis by which to form a statistic.
It’s something of a miracle that life on our planet has been left to evolve without fatal interruption for billions of years …So “evolution” is now a “miracle”. Just cannot use the M-word in a different context, eh? even though they are compelled to admit the supernatural.
The Left is currently pitching for The Malevolent Universe.
The author throughout the article states how unlikely it is that the Earth and humanity have beat the odds and escaped annihilation for billions of years.
But no where did it ever occur to him to suggest the hand of God in the preservation of humanity.
The author, Peter Brannen, obviously was not introduced to the Bible at a young age. And if he was introduced, he obviously rejected it.
He is not alone.
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it’s a miracle because God made it in 6 days, 6,000 years ago.
Faith in "luck" explains it all, since luck does not judge us for immorality.
The strange, cosmic reason our evolutionary path will look ever luckier the longer we survive.
That is, our forecasts about the future could be blinded by our necessarily lucky past.
that their existence depends on them being very, very lucky.
Perhaps this fantastic luck—one that’s necessary
they were lucky it was me on shift that night.”
where everything is obliterated and a luckier version that’s spared.
very rare observers that see him being very, very lucky.
Yet they would likely call this story fictitious, thus Snopes got called but affirmed it:
Church Explosion Spares Choir. Snopes Staff Published 31 December 1998
Choir practice at the West Side Baptist Church in Beatrice, Nebraska, always began at 7:20 on Wednesday evening. At
But every one of the choir’s fifteen members escaped injury, saved by a fortuitous coincidence: All were late for practice that night. Considering the sanctified site of the explosion, it was not surprising that some attributed the near miss to divine intervention.
They supposed rightly that the odds of unanimous tardiness were slim indeed, especially when the reasons were examined. Car trouble delayed two women. The minister and his wife and daughter were delayed by a dress that needed ironing at the last minute. Others were late because they paused to complete homework, finish a letter, or hear the end of a favorite radio show. One awoke late from a nap. Some could think of no special reason; they were just late.
It is impossible to calculate precise odds for all these events occurring at once. But past performance indicated that each person would be late for practice one time in four — producing a one-in-a-million chance that the entire choir would be late that night.