Reply #41: +1 "To me the odds against all this being a total accident is just too great to be a scientifically [View All]

[phasma ex machina]

sound possibility."

The Privileged Planet walks open minded viewers through a plausible probability chain that ends in astronomical odds against a reality shaped by pure chance.

The short generation time of Drosophila "fruit flies" enables geneticist to use them to study genetic mutation.

Billions of instructions per second available in computers also arguably provide a short generation time.

In all of my decades of computer programming not once did even a shadow of an algorithmic snippet ever spring forth fully formed like Athena from Zeus' brow.

In fact, the exact opposite. Allow me to defer to Murphy and O'Toole's eloquent description of creation.

"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" - Murphy's Law.

"Murphy was an optimist." - O'Toole's Corollary.