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rahvin · 12-21-2004, 02:03 PM

Without stepping into that mine field called intelligent design. I believe what is being said here is that the universe appears to exist in such a manner that orginization and in particular life is a given. Carl Sagan said this very thing 30 years ago when he produced the Cosmos series for PBS. The universes very physical laws and constraints seem to make life inevitable. Some have postulated that this is the creation aspect of our universe. In fact a fairly famous or infamous athiest has recently come out and said this.

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I believe that a good portion of this discussion is about this, is the universe "designed" to bring about life and intelligence. From what we observe of physical laws and constraints current theories tend to answer this as a yes. Myself I don't attribute this to magical sky wizards but I can't deny that we are incapable of answering this. With recent discoveries that there is insufficient dark matter to allow for a recollapse of the universe into a singularity thus making the big bang a one shot deal this even strengthens the arguments of those aruging for creation (in the non xian/jew/muslim way)

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rahvin Upright	Life... Without stepping into that mine field called intelligent design. I believe what is being said here is that the universe appears to exist in such a manner that orginization and in particular life is a given. Carl Sagan said this very thing 30 years ago when he produced the Cosmos series for PBS. The universes very physical laws and constraints seem to make life inevitable. Some have postulated that this is the creation aspect of our universe. In fact a fairly famous or infamous athiest has recently come out and said this. http://www.secweb.org/asset.asp?AssetID=369 I believe that a good portion of this discussion is about this, is the universe "designed" to bring about life and intelligence. From what we observe of physical laws and constraints current theories tend to answer this as a yes. Myself I don't attribute this to magical sky wizards but I can't deny that we are incapable of answering this. With recent discoveries that there is insufficient dark matter to allow for a recollapse of the universe into a singularity thus making the big bang a one shot deal this even strengthens the arguments of those aruging for creation (in the non xian/jew/muslim way)