Question:
Atheists when the big bang happened what was the percentaise of possibility tht planet earth wil emerge?
anonymous
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Atheists when the big bang happened what was the percentaise of possibility tht planet earth wil emerge?
26 answers:
xanzibar
2010-08-05 01:40:53 UTC
Anthropic principle fail.
Acid Zebra
2010-08-05 01:44:16 UTC
After the fact possibility: always 100%.
anonymous
2010-08-05 01:40:13 UTC
.............There is no scientific Evidence that there is a god.....until I see other wise...
Cousin Kifu
2010-08-05 01:39:53 UTC
Uh...what?
anonymous
2010-08-05 01:41:38 UTC
probability based arguments are fail.



there are 8 billion people on the planet give or take, so there is a 1 in 8 billion chance i would read this post, yet here i am.



now consider im not the only one answering, and then consider that we all answered in a specific order, and here we are doing just that.
Devilishly Sexy MasterMinD
2010-08-05 01:41:23 UTC
So let me get this straight: out of the trillions and trillions of planets out there, the fact that at least ONE had the basic conditions necessary for life to emerge and strive is a statistical impossibility?



Moron. Scientists theorize there must be thousands of other planets out there like Earth, given the statistical data.
anonymous
2010-08-05 01:40:18 UTC
Wow, I hope this is a Poe.
sparky_dy
2010-08-05 01:48:32 UTC
100%. (Since it already did happen.)



Anyway, if it wasn't this planet where life started, it'd be a different one; in which case we'd be having this discussion somewhere else. Or it might be none at all; in which case we wouldn't be having it at all.



People are generally quite bad at weighing up probabilities, which is not coincidentally the main reason why William Hill and Camelot are still in business.
Aron
2010-08-05 01:42:57 UTC
Why don't you take a full deck of cards, shuffle it, and lay out each card one after the other. What are the chances that that EXACT permutation of cards would emerge? I just worked it out as 8*10^-67!!! That's one chance in the total amount of atoms in the entire galaxy!



OMG you just did the impossible! GODDIDIT!!!!
Bored now
2010-08-05 01:42:12 UTC
You didn't watch The Wonders of the Solar System that started in the US yesterday did you? It is very good and I highly recommend it, especially to people who have great difficulty in understanding the origins of our planet.
tamara
2010-08-05 01:59:03 UTC
I am not an atheist. There are 50 billion galaxies. NOT SOLAR SYSTEMS GALAXIES. at last count they had found 342 planets in our galaxy assuming there are that many in all others that is 17100000000000 planets at minimum. so that number alone is infinitesimal assuming that all planets are distributed evenly.



Consider this. The smallest on the smallest level are made from pure electric charges. Everything on earth is made from this sparks of energy lining up. The big bang was one concentrated point of immense energy, which lets face it really is nothing. Exploding and then fusing together in a coherent pattern to make everything in the universe. Therefore the existence itself breaks the most basic principle of physics you can't make something from nothing. And yet everything on earth is made from this. Do I believe in the big bang. ABSOLUTELY. do I believe in god ABSOLUTELY. they are not mutually exclusive. I believe that god being all powerful and all knowing would have the kind of knowledge to force energy with no form to concentrate to the point where it becomes something. with the inevitable chain reaction running until the building blocks were set into motion for life itself to be possible then all it took was one more spark to set running the chain of events that lead to earth, humanity, and all life as we know it.



edited because mys tupid laptop skips around
Michael Darnell
2010-08-05 02:38:43 UTC
I do not see your claim as a proof of the existence of any God because I do not really have any trouble doing the math. Even if I was a pessimist and I was assuming that this planet was a very rare combination, just the right distance from the sun, exactly the right mix of gases, and exactly the right size moon and exactly the right everything... The chance that there is another exactly like it is only about 1 chance in 10000... but there are 200,000,000,000 stars in this galaxy. So there could be as many as 2,000,000 Earth-like planets in this galaxy, and there are over 100,000,000,000 other galaxies each with say 100,000,000,000 stars! That means a few billion other Earths that would be ideal for life as we know it here...



The chances of this planet emerging from the big bang were 100% because it did. Was it likely? Well yes actually, it was. Given the size of the universe and the number of stars, it was inevitable.
anonymous
2010-08-05 01:50:03 UTC
For an earth like planet to arise the conditions have to be just right so it was very unlikely.



I don't know the exact number but lets say one in a trillion.



Looks like it's near impossible right?



Wrong.



Sure the ods may be one in a trillion but what if there are a million trillion planets?



Suddenly it's not as impossible.



Please think, and learn about basic sciences before you preach god too anyone.
VomitDoll
2010-08-05 02:26:45 UTC
I don't know. But there are more reasons for plausibility, than only chance.



For example can the big bangexplain many things. A god can't explain anything.



The Big Bang Theory makes checkable claims and predicts things, we have observed. A god doesn't.
anonymous
2010-08-05 01:44:41 UTC
everything came from nothing? no... its that it all was there, but its wasent changed, the change being the bang. just like how matter changes, E.G. fire, if you light a news paper, the ashes and smoke all add up to be the same mass of the original paper, just in a different form
anonymous
2010-08-05 01:41:20 UTC
Given the deterministic nature of our universe, 100%
numbnuts222
2010-08-05 01:43:05 UTC
with the billions of galaxies and the billions of stars and the billions of planets, the probability is so high there are probably huge numbers of earth like planets
Paul Allen
2010-08-05 01:44:24 UTC
What's really impossible is you conveying a completely, correctly spelled sentence.



LOLZ ....you said "the cause of the IMPOSSIBLE is god."

Logic fail.
Just wondering
2010-08-05 02:15:19 UTC
Using your own logic I will say 100% since we are here and we are proof.
anonymous
2010-08-05 04:04:02 UTC
the probability of it happening somewhere in the universe was very high - almost certain to happen in fact.
The Shadow
2010-08-05 01:42:29 UTC
What? Try to form that into a coherent question, then ask again.
Comrade Otto
2010-08-05 01:44:18 UTC
I'm an atheist not a scientist.
?
2010-08-05 01:41:21 UTC
Can you try to spell and use grammar?

I don't know, but however small it is, it happened. Stop being stupid.
trollhouse cookies
2010-08-05 01:40:48 UTC
everything is possible - it's a matter of how probably and beating those odds - obviously we did it.
anonymous
2010-08-05 01:50:40 UTC
Dude, your avatar is piccolo.
anonymous
2010-08-05 01:44:22 UTC
lol lol lol



You said "percentiase."


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