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Originally Posted by RT14
However, I said hard to believe, not impossible. It's entirely possible it's all coincidence. With the billions if not trillions number of stars and incalculable number of planets out there, it's bound to happen here and there, but that's another topic all together.
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I think it's relevant to what you are saying actually. You say coincidence, but really what's the coincidence? If life is at all possible, as you say given the # of stars and galaxies, it will happen. Once started, evolution shows that life will adapt and thrive in its environment. Given that it's possible, it's guaranteed to happen, basic probability.
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Originally Posted by RT14
Looking at my own life experiences though, there are a lot of incidences where a split second or inch of difference could have resulted in me not being here today and looking back at everything, again, it's hard not to think that maybe, just maybe, there is some higher power that has a slight influence on the time/space continuum, or something like that. But again, it could all be coincidence.
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Looking back at all the possible places where things that have come out in just such way that you are still here is again an artifact of probability, not an indication of a higher power. Our brains want to see patterns, and our brains want to see reasons for things, but we don't intuitively understand probabilities or very large numbers, so we fill in other things.
If you had died in one of the close calls, then you wouldn't be able to look back say "wow, look at all the close calls, someone's looking out for me".
Look at it this way, lets say I take 20 of my son's transformers. For each one I flip a coin, heads it lives tails it dies. Do that once for each, I'll have 10 left (or so). Do it again, I'll have 5 left. Keep going until I have one left. The one that is left will marvel at its fortune, it survived so many close calls in its life where it could have easily died, some supernatural power must be looking out for it. But nothing is statistically wrong with what just happened, nothing supernatural.
The mistake is the surviving transformer is looking at it from their own point of view and the improbability, rather than the whole.
Plus, if there is a power with influence that is changing things to your benefit, the question then becomes why you? Why do you merit these small tweakings to save your life when others do not? Really how can I honestly think that a power helped me narrowly avoid a car accident when during the time it took you to read this post, two or thee children died of starvation somewhere in this world. Why am I so deserving?
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Originally Posted by Sample00
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That video is just sad on so many levels.