Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Neil Degras Tyson

 




"This is in response to the people out there who say

"The earth is just perfect for life

Oh what a haven in all the universe just right...

"It's not just right

every opportunity it gets 

it tries to kill us.

The tsunamis 

the hurricanes 

the tornados

the asteroids.

On 3/4 of the earth 

if I drop you buck naked?

You are dead 10 minutes later.

Cause something eats you.

Okay?

The earth is bad for life.

Okay?

The proof is in the fossil record,

99% of all species who ever lived 

are now extinct.

That is not the signature of a planet that is in love with life."


Pretty popular a while back.

Lets look at what he is saying 

with a lil closer inspection.


"The earth is just perfect for life

Oh what a haven... 

in all the universe it's just right...

"It's not just right

every opportunity it gets 

it tries to kill us."


(It remains however

 the only place we have 

that supports:

rational, 

sentient

cognizant,

intellectually capable

LIFE.

We have never found

any other place 

where that exist,

just here.

I wonder why?)


"On 3/4 of the earth if I drop you buck naked?

You are dead 10 minutes later.

Cause something eats you."


Presents two problems:


1) "On 3/4 of the earth if I drop you buck naked?

You are dead 10 minutes later."


So it is obviously 

Not what happened!

Or we wouldn't be here.

So why would that be exactly?


And 

2) Where did 

the life 

come from 

that eats you

when you are dropped here 

buck naked?

How did it get here?

Why didn't it just:

"get dropped here and get eaten?"

Again,

obviously not what happened.



"99% of all species 

who ever lived 

are now extinct.

That is not the signature 

of a planet 

that is in love with life."


Exactly.

It is however

evidence of a creator 

that loves his 

greatest creation,

not a planet BTW.



"Juvenile scientism"

 somebody called it.

(I couldn't agree more).


Perfectly designed for a generation 

that came out of the womb 

with a cell phone in their hands.



And While were at it?

The Cosmic Calendar


If we compress the 13.8 billion year history 

of the universe down to one year?

Then the entire history of mankind happened on Dec 31st.


So the question becomes:


Since information theory states

information is degraded 

over time and distance 

and in harsh surroundings?


How did the information get into the DNA molecule so late in the game?


There is one,

one,

metaphysical explanation 

for the beginning of the universe

that is head and shoulders above the rest:


Theism

/ˈTHēˌizəm/


belief in the existence of a god 

or gods

especially belief 

in one god 

as creator of the universe, 

intervening in it 

and sustaining a personal relation 

to his creatures.


True science 

(Not arbitrarily ruling out options 

because we dont like their implications 

and only choosing the theories 

that support our predetermined conclusions before hand)

would 

DEMAND

that until it can be effectively ruled out?

At a minimum

at a minimum

 it deserves consideration.


It it was anything else?

people would have 

already been believing in it.









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