• Mayor Poopington@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Don’t get me started on how badly crafted the human body is. If someone designed us, they should be dragged out in the street and shot.

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          The recurrent laryngeal nerve. Our liquid waste evacuation tubes sharing space with our reproductive organs. Our reproductive organs being immediately adjacent to our solid waste evacuation tube. Hangnails. Acne. Teeth (god damn luxury bones).

          But my go to for “if there is a god, they’re not worth worshipping” is always Children’s. Bone. Cancer. Those 3 words should not fucking go together.

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            But my go to for “if there is a god, they’re not worth worshipping” is always Children’s. Bone. Cancer. Those 3 words should not fucking go together.

            I watched my sibling deteriorate over the course of a few years and then die a couple days after their sixth birthday. They had a brain stem tumor which was inoperable. There is no god

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        Without knowing the constraints I’m going to have to withhold judgment.

        Unless God is omnipotent cause if so he really sucks at this.

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      That’s Paley’s Teleological argument from the 18th century. It’s a classic but back then you have to remember clocks were more impressive.

      The modern day spin on it is the “fine tuning” argument. Basically: the chances of life existing at all with our earth and the solar system being in a goldilocks zone seems too perfect to be a coincidence. You can probably explain it with selection bias but it’s a better argument nonetheless.

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        Which would make sense if this was the only solar system in the galaxy. 1 in 8 chance (rip Pluto) is pretty impressive, but when you include the rest of the galaxy 1 in however many trillion stars with however many trillions of planets is pretty low odds. Mathematically there should be more planets with life on them, so either we can’t find them, they’re too far away, they all killed themselves, or some other reason is preventing us from finding them.

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          rare enough and spread out enough (both in time and space) that we may never encounter another ‘intelligent’ civilization, or evidence of one, during our own extremely minuscule window of existence in the grand history of time.