Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:11:19 +0100 (MET) From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: jamie@itribe.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <199711121811.TAA26526@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:45:34 -0700 (MST) References: <199711120628.XAA02195@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199711121434.JAA03780@gatekeeper.itribe.net> <199711121545.IAA03820@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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> > > > In my opinion, it takes a whole lot less Faith to believe there is some > > > design to what we call life than it all happened by pure accident or > > > chance. > > > > And why is that exactly? In an infinite universe, anything that can > > happen, probably will happen at one or multiple points. And as you > > pointed out in a previous post, the universe is infinite. > > But, getting all of these 'probably' togethers into a single system such > that they are all put together into the highly complex system we know as > Earth stretches my ability in 'chance' beyond it's ability to believe it > can happen. There are too many billions orders of magnitude for me to > pass it off as chance. The universe is the way it is because we're here to see it; just consider all universes as existing. The 'all combinations exists' version is for me a rather small leap of faith after accepting that something can be infinite (which is the really difficult hurdle :-) Eivind.
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