Genius is independent of situation.
Charles ChurchillStichwörter: intelligence accomplishment chance
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
Stephen HawkingStichwörter: life death chance destiny
Not all can believe anything they want to,
because not all have the ability to believe.
Stichwörter: life truth belief chance gift ability
It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
Robert J. SawyerStichwörter: science chance naturalism intelligent-design theism id anthropic-principle coincidenc-e fine-tuning religious-science-fiction theistic-science-fiction
The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity of those found in the cell. ID specifically denies this, predicting that in the absence of intelligent input no such systems would develop. So Darwinism and ID make clear, opposite predictions of what we should find when we examine genetic results from a stupendous number of organisms that are under relentless pressure from natural selection. The recent genetic results are a stringent test. The results: 1) Darwinism’s prediction is falsified; 2) Design’s prediction is confirmed.
Michael J. BeheStichwörter: science biology chance evolution naturalism darwinism natural-selection intelligent-design predictions macro-evolution macroevolution id
Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: chance help unexpected
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.
Michael J. BeheStichwörter: science biology chance evolution naturalism darwinism luck mutation intelligent-design serendipity macro-evolution macroevolution id
Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutations. Let me emphasize, our experience with malaria’s effects on humans (arguably our most highly studied genetic system) shows that most helpful mutations degrade genes. What’s more, as a group the mutations are incoherent, meaning that they are not adding up to some new system. They are just small changes - mostly degradative - in pre-existing, unrelated genes. The take-home lesson is that this is certainly not the kind of process we would expect to build the astonishingly elegant machinery of the cell. If random mutation plus selective pressure substantially trashes the human genome, why should we think that it would be a constructive force in the long term? There is no reason to think so.
Michael J. BeheStichwörter: science biology chance evolution darwinism macro-evolution macroevolution malaria mutations
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. For 40 years, physicists and cosmologists have been quietly collecting examples of all too convenient "coincidences" and special features in the underlying laws of the universe that seem to be necessary in order for life, and hence conscious beings, to exist. Change any one of them and the consequences would be lethal. Fred Hoyle, the distinguished cosmologist, once said it was as if "a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics".
To see the problem, imagine playing God with the cosmos. Before you is a designer machine that lets you tinker with the basics of physics. Twiddle this knob and you make all electrons a bit lighter, twiddle that one and you make gravity a bit stronger, and so on. It happens that you need to set thirtysomething knobs to fully describe the world about us. The crucial point is that some of those metaphorical knobs must be tuned very precisely, or the universe would be sterile.
Example: neutrons are just a tad heavier than protons. If it were the other way around, atoms couldn't exist, because all the protons in the universe would have decayed into neutrons shortly after the big bang. No protons, then no atomic nucleuses and no atoms. No atoms, no chemistry, no life. Like Baby Bear's porridge in the story of Goldilocks, the universe seems to be just right for life.
Stichwörter: science chance intelligent-design coincidence serendipity theism id anthropic-principle fine-tuning fred-hoyle
The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.
Michael DentonStichwörter: science biology chance naturalism intelligent-design coincidence serendipity id living-cells abiogenesis origin-of-life chemical-evolution irreducible-complexity
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