Random or Deterministic – Thursday August 15th 2024
Random or Deterministic – Thursday August 15th 2024
Each of us has their own views and conclusions of and about various things, so when a person believes everything is random, in relation to physics, the universe, Earth etc., that’s their right.
I understand their argument quite well, I don’t agree with it, nor do I feel that my views and conclusions are a Deterministic misconception.
Certainly, random events occur here on Earth and throughout the universe.
When we say life is simply evolution and selection, therefore it’s random. I would argue, what is evolution?
Evolution to me, is a design that is hand in hand with molecular genetics. It’s the type of design one would create, if you weren’t able to be hands on to do maintenance. Our genome actively does repairs in real time, which to my mind, isn’t random. It’s thought out. And then I would also ask what would be the odds of a planet with numerous types of life, as diverse as Earth’s and each and every form with its own genetic code which by itself is genius format. It’s able to create life that can take care of it’s needs to survive, before that life has evolved to a more complex and able state. How would random do that and get it right first time?
And we can say but that’s life, it’s random. But that doesn’t explain what life is or where it came from. So the argument of random does lack explanations when we simply say, life, evolution, selection.
Why evolve? Why not just simply all be blobs? Taking energy from the sun etc. That would make the genome very simple. Instead it’s hugely complex and an enormous variety of insects and marine life, mammals and we’re all existing together on a rocky rotating sphere in space.
And I don’t believe this to be common. If it was random we should have some indication of this elsewhere and or at a prior time.
Because if a trillion stars are random, then so should Earth and ourselves be also.
So that is just a part of my argument for non- random.
I still maintain that we may find evidence of previous life in this solar system though.
On another subject, Mimas appears to me to possibly not have originated in this solar system. It’s been pelted completely, there isn’t an area without any damage and then that really large impact crater, so perhaps it found it’s way from another system and came through the asteroid belts joining Saturn’s other moons long ago?
Also, Earth’s water, my thinking, as I have stated previously, is that Earth’s water is innate to Earth. I am aware that some scientists think it was delivered by asteroids and such and what I would ask then is, if asteroids are thought to contain the water molecules that put water on earth, why then couldn’t Earth contain those molecules itself?
Fiona MacLeod (C)