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Thread #157162   Message #3709003
Posted By: Steve Shaw
15-May-15 - 05:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: What amazes you?
Subject: RE: BS: What amazes you?
It isn't quite as amazing as you think (though it is quite amazing). There are hundreds of billions of galaxies with thousands of billions of suns. Billions of those suns are likely to have planets and billions of those planets may have moons, millions of which may be just about the right sizes and distances from their planet to give some very nifty eclipses. As for evolution, who knows how many thousands of possible configurations might yield favourable conditions for water-based life to arise and evolve. When people marvel at "coincidences" in the way you have done, there can be a suspicion that it's leading to something. Especially when you say that that things are fine-tuned. The one amazing thing about all of it is that we have yet to discover a law of nature that has been contravened. My own take is to be amazed at the sheer unmagical ordinariness of everything.