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This question is aimed at those who claim life certainly rose on its own, without guidance. Specifically if you feel life MUST have occured because it was the path of least resistance (vs nothing, or lifeless masses), I would like your opinions.
What if we discover an inhabitable plant without any life on it at all? Would this give rise to the theory of a guiding hand assisting life on this planet? What are the implications for the theories of those who reject God's guiding life?
Inhabitable planet without life?
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Inhabitable planet without life?
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No it doesn't - I do!Cathar1950 wrote: I need coffee. My cafe makes the best coffee.
My cafe makes the best coffee in town.
It isn't really my cafe except by relationship as I go there all the time and they don't kick me out for hanging around and reading.
How come the format for the threads have changed?
Or is it my computer?
Maybe they adapt rapidly. Or even metamorph during change.Goat wrote:I would say that unless we had a planet with a stable climate, multicelluar life would not exist.
Life seems to be very resilient. Frogs swim under water and out on land. I seem to have read where after great extinctions there springs up many variations as new places are open.
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I've said this in the mulitple universes thread to. Humans have an incredibly small bandwidth to view the Universe. Because something doesn't evolve like us doesn't mean that it isn't life. I hate it when people are looking for water on mars because that doesn't mean there is life, water is needed for life on earth doesn't mean its needed elsewhere. I'll use my favourite example. Imagine a planet made entirely out of a metal. It is far flung and small and very cold. Contains very few elements and even less non-metallic elements. You think life couldn't exist there? Heres how it could. Friction and magnetism causes a small current within the planet this builds due to the superconductive qualities of the metal. Eventually the current passes around the planet quikly. Suddenly out of nowhere the planet has what is similar to the human brain, a network of electrical signals. A conciousness forms and eventually comes to control the metal form of the planet.
This could be somewhere in the Universe, we may never know. What I'm saying is that its hard for someone to point at a planet and say "That cannot possibly hold life" because life is such a strange term.
This could be somewhere in the Universe, we may never know. What I'm saying is that its hard for someone to point at a planet and say "That cannot possibly hold life" because life is such a strange term.
