Atheists, doyou believe that we are all here because of coincidence?

Red_Calibur9 wrote:

Gplex wrote: To get life started, all the evidence points to needing liquid water..

But why?

Life is basically just one big chemical reaction. The heat, atmospheric pressure, light, water and anything else I am forgetting were just the right conditions so that chemicals would react in a specific way that would form what we call life. The conditions that chemicals that life on Earth are made up of were required. Anything else wouldn’t work.

Theoretically speaking though, I believe it is possible that there may exist chemicals different from the ones that made up the first living organisms on Earth that can have the chemical reaction that is life without the requirements being specific, or being too similar. That is just an idea of mine though. I don’t know if it will hold any ground because we haven’t discovered such chemicals.

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bonesboy08 wrote:

Tyreaus Dreacon wrote:

Red_Calibur9 wrote: I don’t understand why there isn’t life on the other planets in our solar system. Someone mind explaining that to me?

We haven’t detected any because most of them are too far away. The ones that aren’t so far appear unsuitable for complex life but we’re still studying Mars for things, something I haven’t personally been keeping up on.
Besides that, general theory is because they’re either too hot, too cold, or their atmosphere is just shit. That’d probably only go so far to say that complex life doesn’t live on other planets in our solar system.

they have already found frozen microbes on mars

They look like fossilize microbes, but I’m not studying biology or geology and a lot of experienced geologists are saying that, the formation seen on some the mars rocks which appear to look like fossilized microbes could accrue without life.

Cid wrote: You flame religions and its followers without even considering their side of the story. You’re not much different from Hitler with his extermination of the jews

A good way to think of it is our bodies are made up of many many many single cell organisms, and they are all working together in a gigantic colony harmoniously. Each dedicating itself to a different, specific function for the joint good of all of it’s counter parts, quite similarly to colonies of algae. One group dedicated to reproduction, another dedicated to consuming nutrients, etc... Specialized cells function better their one job than multi-jobbed cells, and thus the colony gains. It also allowed them to be larger (as a unit) and therefore harder to eat and better protected. Also, working together allowed them to do things a single algae could not, like dedicating and entire group to specialize in swimming.

The point being, is that our consciousness was considered a positive gain in the betterment of our survival. Our “choices” are all derived from the wants and needs of all of our little cells working together to keep us alive and procreating (this being the “Id” factor).

What’s even cooler is that after we have these established monstrously complex multi-cell organisms... we raise the scale and function that way as a society as well. We are more or less a tiny tiny part of a gigantic Superorganism.

To answer the question. I will say yes. Yes I believe that I am very VERY lucky to be here. Any one of my ancestors where to be killed before reproducing through out the billions of years they have been on earth, I would not have been lucky enough to be born.

Cid wrote: You flame religions and its followers without even considering their side of the story. You’re not much different from Hitler with his extermination of the jews