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**phild707** · 10-23-2007, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by frosty

Heh heh, I'll do that ... its fun (and quite challenging, to put it mildly)!

BTW, I presume you are aware that creationists and ID-ers have been putting improbability arguments against evolution for decades ... and they are typically howled down with a "doesn't matter how improbable it might seem, here we are". Good for the goose, good for the gander, that's what I say now.

My cry is "show me the evidence, or accept that its belief not science". <wink>

Oh yes, and the stats are really fun too!

Astronomers estimate there are about 100 Thousand Million stars in the Milky Way alone. Outside that, there are millions upon millions of other galaxies also!

The late Dr. Carl Sagan once said that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of planet earth.

Planet earth is one of those that orbit our sun, in a quiet neighbourhood of the Milky Way.

So lets just reduce our planet hypothetically for a moment to a grain of sand and imagine that here we are, infinitely small microbial lifeforms living on the surface of a perfect little blue-green grain of sand on lets say, 7 mile beach, (Tasmania of course!)

One microbe turns to another and asks "How can you prove there is life on any other grain of sand? Show me the evidence!".

Perhaps the 1st microbe is right

10-23-2007, 06:25 PM	#25 (permalink)
phild707 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Burnie International Airport Posts: 298	Originally Posted by frosty Heh heh, I'll do that ... its fun (and quite challenging, to put it mildly)! BTW, I presume you are aware that creationists and ID-ers have been putting improbability arguments against evolution for decades ... and they are typically howled down with a "doesn't matter how improbable it might seem, here we are". Good for the goose, good for the gander, that's what I say now. My cry is "show me the evidence, or accept that its belief not science". <wink> Oh yes, and the stats are really fun too! Astronomers estimate there are about 100 Thousand Million stars in the Milky Way alone. Outside that, there are millions upon millions of other galaxies also! The late Dr. Carl Sagan once said that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of planet earth. Planet earth is one of those that orbit our sun, in a quiet neighbourhood of the Milky Way. So lets just reduce our planet hypothetically for a moment to a grain of sand and imagine that here we are, infinitely small microbial lifeforms living on the surface of a perfect little blue-green grain of sand on lets say, 7 mile beach, (Tasmania of course!) One microbe turns to another and asks "How can you prove there is life on any other grain of sand? Show me the evidence!". Perhaps the 1st microbe is right __________________ "It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any." Mae West