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re: Do you believe in an afterlife?
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:38 pm to TheAstroTiger
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:38 pm to TheAstroTiger
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So you believe this world happened by chance? How can you even put that into context. That is really hard for me to believe. Then I would say who created the universe for this to happen? You would say who created God. It's the same debate over and over but either way you are putting your faith in something.
How is this hard for you to believe? Do you realize how infinitely large the universe is? Beyond anything we can fathom. The sequence of events that had to occur for life on Earth to occur is mind-boggling... but the Universe is large enough that for it to have happened SOMEWHERE is not mind-boggling at all. It's similar to the Lotto but on a far grander scale. Let me put it in perspective for you...
In our galaxy alone there are an estimated 100 BILLION stars. That's 100 BILLION potential Suns, with potential planetary systems, that include planets in the goldilocks zone where life is possible. And that's just in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of an estimated 200 BILLION galaxies. Milky Way is average size, so lets just say 100 BILLION stars is average for a galaxy. That's 100 billion times 200 billion potential Suns with potential planetary systems...
So while the odds of the required events taking place anywhere in the Universe are massive.... they aren't so massive that it couldn't happen once in 100 billion times 200 billion potential places.
The odds of winning the Powerball are massive, but if 100 billion times 200 billion tickets were sold with the odds of winning being one in 292,000,000.... there would be approximately 68,493,150,700,000 winners.
My point is, when you use the word "chance"... consider the odds and the sheer size of the Universe as we know it. When James Webb comes online in the coming months we're in for some exciting info.
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:43 pm to JustinBRLA
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So while the odds of the required events taking place anywhere in the Universe are massive.... they aren't so massive that it couldn't happen once in 100 billion times 200 billion potential places.
and that's considering life to take place like here. our model of life does not have to ring true elsewhere.
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:53 pm to JustinBRLA
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JustinBRLA
Thank you for saying this. Chaos and randomness aren't as chaotic and random when you consider the mind-numbing expanse of the Universe.
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When James Webb comes online in the coming months we're in for some exciting info.
I truly believe the James Webb Telescope is going to fundamentally rock our world. It's very hard to conceptualize the vastness of our Universe, but we're mere months away from being able to (visually) access pretty much every corner of the known Universe. The discoveries they'll be making are going to be major.
This post was edited on 2/10/22 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:54 pm to JustinBRLA
I've been feeling the whole reincarnation thing lately.
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