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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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> 
> > > In my opinion, it takes a whole lot less Faith to believe there is some
> > > design to what we call life than it all happened by pure accident or
> > > chance.
> > 
> > And why is that exactly?  In an infinite universe, anything that can
> > happen, probably will happen at one or multiple points.  And as you
> > pointed out in a previous post, the universe is infinite.
> 
> But, getting all of these 'probably' togethers into a single system such
> that they are all put together into the highly complex system we know as
> Earth stretches my ability in 'chance' beyond it's ability to believe it
> can happen.  There are too many billions orders of magnitude for me to
> pass it off as chance.

The universe is the way it is because we're here to see it; just
consider all universes as existing.  The 'all combinations exists'
version is for me a rather small leap of faith after accepting that
something can be infinite (which is the really difficult hurdle :-)

Eivind.