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To: Caleb1411
I'll take Pascal's Bet, thanks.

From the earliest instant, when even time itself had just come into being, the symmetry of the creation event was broken, and nuclear strong and weak/electromagnetic forces somehow therein also gave rise to gravitation which, though exceptionally weak by the other three, nonetheless gradually coalesced their parts into various galactic types and structures.

And as we live in one out of billions of those spiral galaxies, two thirds of the way out from its dense center between whirling arms which are relatively debris and dust free; where metals are fairly well concentrated, but rarer in the Milky Way’s outer reaches…. Where too, were we further in, we wouldn’t be able to see the universe outside.

That we live in the habitable zone of a single G2V star, in a system with a large outer planet to sweep up a considerable amount of debris that might otherwise be drawn to the inner solar system and collide with Earth. That we have a magnetic field which protects us from too much cosmic and solar radiation, and allows us too – geometrically by the more distant stars – to navigate around our planet.

That we have a moon massive enough to stabilize our planetary axis, and which perhaps also couples gravitationally to assist plate tectonics in recycling our oceanic crust and mantle, yielding a balance of nitrogen/oxygen and carbon dioxide to our atmosphere. That the laws of physics at both the macro- and micro levels should be so fine tuned - and unified! - allowing these processes to be carried out at all.

That we are alive in such a system!

The odds of it – ALL - seem somehow inconceivable that there isn’t God who – being God sets the values of good and evil, and cares that we should prefer that Good.

"If I knew God I’d be Him." Though He’s there.

38 posted on 06/22/2007 11:09:31 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug
That we are alive in such a system!

I'm going to guess that there are millions of systems where it didn't work out that way. However, with the sheer numbers of galaxies out there, and the ranges where it could theoretically work, and the billions of such sites, there may indeed be other intelligent life.

If so, I would suspect at some point in their civilization cycle, they too would have considered themselves a unique wonder.

48 posted on 06/22/2007 12:03:02 PM PDT by hunter112 (Change will happen when very good men are forced to do very bad things.)
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