Science & Nature

The Theory

On face value we live in a miraculous world. The beauty and wonder of life and the universe scream a masterful designer, but where is he? In the seeming silence we can't help but wonder if the appearance of design is just an illusion, and we should look for a better explanation for this miracle.

Over the last couple of hundred years we have finally come up with a seemingly coherent argument for how life, the universe, and everything, could have come about from almost nothing, slowly and accidentally improving to become what we perceive around us. The magic ingredient is, that given enough time, anything is possible by chance.

This is gold. Now, no matter how incredibly unbelievable a scenario is, we can say: well it was bound to happen eventually, if we waited long enough.

The Reality

Of course, a missing ingredient is, limits are real. It's like, just because I can learn to jump higher and higher, it doesn't mean I could eventually jump to the moon. There's a hard limit to the possibilities. Limits exist everywhere in mathematics and science, and more time won't make any difference to these.

So ask yourself, is it possible for there to be a case so unlikely that you'd reconsider your assumptions? How unlikely is unlikely enough? If you say nothing can change your mind, are you still allowing observational science to lead you?

This is exactly what is happening in science right now. The more we learn, the more we find that the mechanisms hidden in the microscopic processes of life are significantly more intricate and interdependent than we ever realised. Similarly we find that our expectations of cosmological discovery were mistaken, and what we were certain about yesterday is wrong today, again.

The Problem

The level of faith required to believe that everything made itself, is growing rapidly every day. Does your opinion rest on what "could" have happened, or what is provable?

Here are some examples: