James Le Fanu: Why Us? (The limitations of science)

by David Turell, (6307 days ago) @ xeno6696

You have--in a concise way--fairly represented my thrust. There's a more direct argument that he hasn't exactly made, but by reading the book by Adler he suggested I'm forming a strong opinion on what exactly Dr. Turell's argument is--and its a little more nuanced than that but I think can still boil down to those two stated fallacies. - My contentions stand on a four-legged table, developing temporally in the following order: 1) The universe, whose parameters are so finely adjusted, allows life. 2) The origin of life from inorganic matter. 3) The enormous complexity of the coding system DNA/RNA which drives and controls life. 4) The human mind which makes US dilfferent in kind, not degree. I have no idea what the total odds are, when compiled in order, and of course, as Matt notes, there is no reasonable way to estimate and calculate them.

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