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Old 04-29-2013, 07:17 PM  
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
This stuff didn't happen by accident.
Check out a great book called A Glorious Accident. You'd enjoy it. It's a long read but he goes into great detail trying to explain our existence and if we are an accident or not.

That said, how can a human possibly know anything about the grand scheme of things taking place within the universe? On a universal scale, we know nothing and are nothing. As far as the universe is concerned, we are no more or less significant than bacteria growing on a piss ant turd, and if we all died within the next 5 minutes, "the universe wouldn't even notice," to quote Dr. Manhattan.

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Originally Posted by MaDalton View Post

evolution is not an accident, it's long term trial and error
But only a long time in Earth years.
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