The Scientific Possibility is the Godly Ability: A Moment of Cosmic Gratitude
I’m not going to explain why the subject of religion and science came to me today (because it would take forever and sound overdone because I’ve already talked about it on another blog) but it got me thinking:
The scientific possibility that the Earth should even exist is 1 in 140 trillion.
That life forms would then evolve on Earth is 1 in 795 billion.
That they would evolve into mankind is 1 in 89 billion.
That mankind would be able to have the brainpower to create the alphabet and so start civilization is 1 in 12 billion.
That your parents should have crossed paths and decided to get together is a chance of 1 in 6 billion.
And that the single lucky sperm carrying the you that you are now would fertilize your mother’s egg is 1 in 90 million.
Realize how insanely lucky you are to be here. Realize that religion does not mean the negation of science and knowledge, and nor does science and knowledge mean the negation of religion. Because just like science opens our eyes to the immense wonder of all these mind-boggling and incontestable facts, it proves that such incomprehensible odds as FREAKING ONE IN 140 TRILLION can ever only be surmounted over and over and over by a one true God.
The people that tell you that sometimes you shouldn’t apply logic are wrong. Apply it as far as you can possibly go. Because then you’ll see the beauty of the fact that within the deepest, most meaningful, and scientifically logical facts are the most revealing truths about the universe, humanity, and its grand Creator.
All my love!
I don’t believe the ratio is a factual statement. Unless we have accounted for a majority of other planets or at least another like our own we cannot place an actual number on that. I mean what if we went the other way and found another planet just like ours in the first 200, that wouldn’t make it a 1 in 100 chance.
Your math is flawed, rather than looking to the cosmos to find something to be thankful for, why not consider how many people had to die of hypothermia before someone happened upon fire.
First of all it’s not MY math. This is the scientific data that was compiled by evolutionary and astronomical theorists. I’m not going to claim that I am either of those–I’m simply relaying the information that I have read and that is based upon years and years of study that has now been accepted by many men and women of science as fact.
The association of these facts with godly ability is of my own opinion. I’m not saying that because I believe that God is the reason behind the existence of humanity (and everything that facilitated it) that I think the world is just one big happy place in which absolutely nothing happens by accident.
What I am saying is that given the highly insurmountable improbability of the creation of the Earth (even if it was, as you say, 1 in 100–even though this is the first that I have EVER heard of this) and the equally insurmountable possibility that humanity was even to form on Earth, it seems like you would need to have a pretty far-fetched sense of logic to assume that all these insane improbabilities were overturned one after the other COMPLETELY BY ACCIDENT.
And, according to my logic, that, despite all the other possibly horrible things that have happened in the world and the process of human civilization (like the discovery of fire), seems like something to be thankful for. That’s all.
But, all the same, I appreciate the comment. Nothing like a good sparring of the wits every now and again!