some non-questions
- Do you believe in God?
- God is not a sufficiently well-defined term to merit an answer to this question
- Don't you think that the spontaneous emergence of life is extremely unlikely?
- In order to measure the probability of any event, you first need to gather some preliminary information. In this case, you need to know the number of planets that can potentially harbour life. We currently have very little information about planets within our observable universe. Of course, we do not have (and will never have) any information about what lies outside the observable universe. In other words, we do not know the size of the entire universe and therefore have no idea about the number of "candidate" planets. Without this important input, we can not estimate the size of the experiment whose one by-product was life on earth. And without this estimation, it is nonsensical to make a statement about the likelihood of spontaneous emergence of life.
- God is not a sufficiently well-defined term to merit an answer to this question
- Don't you think that the spontaneous emergence of life is extremely unlikely?
- In order to measure the probability of any event, you first need to gather some preliminary information. In this case, you need to know the number of planets that can potentially harbour life. We currently have very little information about planets within our observable universe. Of course, we do not have (and will never have) any information about what lies outside the observable universe. In other words, we do not know the size of the entire universe and therefore have no idea about the number of "candidate" planets. Without this important input, we can not estimate the size of the experiment whose one by-product was life on earth. And without this estimation, it is nonsensical to make a statement about the likelihood of spontaneous emergence of life.
