Why life?

[Batman Jones]

‎"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star." - Stephen Hawking

Or, as Sarah Silverman would say jokingly, or bigtexxx would say totally seriously: Jesus is Magic.

[Invisible Fan]

Originally Posted by oldgunrules Yes it is. It's called the level of entropy. Scientists believe that the level of entropy ALWAYS increases with time. That is, things always become less and less orderly. Everything you see, eventually will disintegrate. The singular point before the big band was the ultimate ordered "universe". Then came the big bang. The early solar system was violently disorderly. The present solar system is extremely orderly. A few billion years later, the sun will be gone. All stars will eventually burn out, the universe as we know it will be gone. By then, the universe reaches its highest level of entropy.

Okay...

Originally Posted by oldgunrules But, life is the only matter that defies the time law of entropy. The seemingly random rocks and waters all of a sudden arranged themselves in the right order to come alive. Sure there is no law of physics to prevent this from happening.

WHAT? NOOOO

Damnit people, read more books or something.

You had something there when describing the early universe. The "habitable zone" mentioned is another way of saying that the solar system has its own energy source. The earth has received an outside source of energy for billions of years, and "life" has managed to harness .0000000000000000000000000000 .... 0000001% of that.

It's not ****ing magic. It's fission, fusion, and time. ****tons of it.

[Dubious]

Originally Posted by oldgunrules Yes it is. It's called the level of entropy. But, life is the only matter that defies the time law of entropy.

Entropy goes from order to complexity. Life going from replicating molecules to one living cell to reasoning humans certainly follows that path.

Originally Posted by oldgunrules But, the likelihood that it did happen is millions times smaller than a pyramid being formed naturally on Mars.

See, chances a million times smaller, is nothing in a universe of billions of galaxies each with trillions of planets that exist over billions of years. Things are always happening everywhere, this thing we call life happened at least once, maybe a billion times, but we are only in this one frame of reference. We look unique because we can't perceive (or even conceive of) of the real reality.

Infinite possibilities//// You are one.

[bigtexxx]

Originally Posted by Dubious Spontaneous generation from a chemically self-replicating carbon molecule. Out of all the trillions and trillions of chemical reactions throughout the entire history of the universe, it only takes one...... and away you go.

lol

so you lean on science for all your answers, but for this one, "it's a coincidence"

got it....but you're not consistent

[LosPollosHermanos]

Originally Posted by mclawson But the 2nd law of thermodynamics only applies to a closed system - one where there isn't an input of energy. I guess it's easy to ignore the sun?

yea exactly, apples and oranges. Creationists will hook on to any piece of information and use it to rally their cause.

Oh and speaking of stupid logic, I don't know if it gets any worse. You might consider paint thinner as a way to kill off brain cells before this...

[LonghornFan]

Look at the big brains on ClutchFans!

[Dubious]

Originally Posted by bigtexxx so you lean on science for all your answers, but for this one, "it's a coincidence" got it....but you're not consistent

To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke:
Any sufficiently complex system is indistinguishable from magic.

If we had benefit of a greater perception, maybe billions of planets over billions of years, life might seem common ...... or not.