I read 'Climbing Mount Improbable' (also by Dawkins) many years ago, while on a personal quest to prove their can be no god and the best thing about it was it turned my theories on their head and convinced me otherwise.
My rational mind has since been unable to comprehend evolution in the absence of external guidance as the mathematical probabilities are ridiculously remote.
It was one of his descriptions regarding beetles taking flight that brought to light for me the eons that would be required for mud to become a bird.
Not withstanding the enormous fossil record that would be available of the 99.9% of failed examples between that tadpole and the first flying creature?
If the planet is 4 billion years old and we look at the period of time the planet wasn't a boiling inferno nor a block of ice- we have had an awful lot of luck in profitable mutation in a very short period of time.
I remember reading somewhere that the odds of a single functioning organism arising by chance from the ooze was of the same order as winning first division lotto every week for 100,000 years.
Why would humans evolve a brain that consumes 50% of the bodies bloodflow and of which only 10% is utilised?????????
Nature abhors mutation and it is quickly killed off.
I'm afraid I've come around to the 'there can be no pleasure in the absence of pain' school of thinking and as such while we are most definitely animals there is something else going on
My rational mind has since been unable to comprehend evolution in the absence of external guidance as the mathematical probabilities are ridiculously remote.
It was one of his descriptions regarding beetles taking flight that brought to light for me the eons that would be required for mud to become a bird.
Not withstanding the enormous fossil record that would be available of the 99.9% of failed examples between that tadpole and the first flying creature?
If the planet is 4 billion years old and we look at the period of time the planet wasn't a boiling inferno nor a block of ice- we have had an awful lot of luck in profitable mutation in a very short period of time.
I remember reading somewhere that the odds of a single functioning organism arising by chance from the ooze was of the same order as winning first division lotto every week for 100,000 years.
Why would humans evolve a brain that consumes 50% of the bodies bloodflow and of which only 10% is utilised?????????
Nature abhors mutation and it is quickly killed off.
I'm afraid I've come around to the 'there can be no pleasure in the absence of pain' school of thinking and as such while we are most definitely animals there is something else going on