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The question of Random Chance or Intelligent Design

Signature in the Cell (2009) DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design Stephen C. Meyer Take the instance when you receive a fax. You marvel at how a message at one end of the line is transmitted to the other many miles away. You think you know it all when you discover the nitty-gritty of how a facsimile machine works. You forget all about the composer of the document. Learning about the essence of life, DNA is something like that. When Watson and Crick suggested the double helix model as the prototype for DNA in 1953, the world thought material science could explain everything. Delving further, later scientists came with theories after theories of how internal milieu of the cell worked. The author posits that the possibility of creation of life from the Universe's 'pre-biotic soup' just by chance - by random 'trial-and-error' is merely impossible. The probability, in statistically sense, of Nature coming up with the correct combination that can sustain life, ...

Coincidence or what?

Get a copy of the book 'Real Lessons in Reel Life' here... Your entry into the elusive world of Maya, the stage set by Man to learn from to live on the stage set by Nature.   https://asok22.wixsite.com/real-lesson Asoka Chakra, quintessentially Odiyan For 17 years, I have been receiving referrals from the world over. On the morning before my long procrastinated maiden trip to India, to Bhuvanesvar specifically, where did I receive a referral from? Well, what do you know? It is from Bhuvanesvar! If you do not call it coincidence, what else? Or is it that I am specifically on the lookout for these quirky incidences. Perhaps if I were to look at other tiny unimportant data, I would surely see a pattern and claim synchronicity! [ Referral ] Am I so important to the Universe that it decides to indulge in some kind of divine game? A mystical prank. That would be putting own self as a point of reference as if Nature gives a damn to the single individual. In fac...

Murphy's Law: A variant

There is an unwritten rule. If ever anything is destined to go wrong, it would. No matter where you are and what you do, if it is to, it definitely would. Some would call it 'Murphy's law' which dictates that if anything that can go wrong, it will go wrong. On the other hand, on the anti-pessimistic stance of things, there is also a softer side of Murphy's law where nature is kind and not so vengeful. I have not found a name for it yet. Sometimes, a potentially explosive situation does not flare up until the situation is ripe. If destiny is on your side, even the most heroic one in a million kind of desperate ditch in helpless of times may appear fruitful. In a way, it is reverse 'Murphy's Law'! A Professor in Obstetric told the class of a particular Bedouin gipsy lady who travelled all through the Sahara desert only to collapse right in front of a district hospital to be operated for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. In the worse of times, in battlefields...