[And the puddle says "look how well I fit this hole, it must have been designed just for me"]
Say the puddle was an exact mathematically perfect utterly complex geometric design. And the puddle says "I bet this formed by blind natural chance of some kind". Come on though lets get real here.
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Maybe it's a gap in a quartz crystal, hmm? A complex, geometric pattern, built along perfect planes and axes. And yet, it arose completely naturally out of a handful of simple base elements.
This bizarre puddle metaphor... it sounds like the water assumes the naturally occuring pits and ditches were somehow designed to fit and adapt to it rather than it spreading to fit and flow as is the nature of water. A very bizzare sort of view that makes the puddle the centre of the damned universe.
Sounds about right if you think of yourself as the puddle Sword of Christ. And correspondingly deep as well.
Extra credit from the same post:
[I got this information from reading the latest science of the disc world book which did have references to back it up but is on my kindle lurking somewhere in the house. ]
@ Hertzyscowicz:
To be fair, the Science Of Discworld books are more popular science books than fiction. I haven’t read the last one yet, it still lies on the “to be read” pile. But as the authors knew what the anthropic principle is about in the first three books, I doubt Sword Of Christ got whatever point they were making
Doubting Thomas:
Every time it snows.
(*BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM! *)
...hear that, Shit of Christ? It's the sound of Gen. Chuck Yeager flying Project Aurora at Mach-7 - and at 50,000 feet - demonstrating the point going over your head.
"Say the puddle was an exact mathematically perfect utterly complex geometric design."
But why would we say that? A mathematically perfect structure does not exist in nature, mainly because nature EVOLVED and was not created by the all-perfect Sky Daddy. I mean, talk about getting real.
Straight up Poe. Read the rest of his post. One user clearly describes their lack of belief in aliens (although thinks them likely) because of a lack of evidence for them. This guy accuses said user of "blindly believing in aliens."
Either a Poe, illiterate, or really dumb.
I argue that holes have very complex geometry, they may not be pretty but they are complex. Also, given how much of nature can kill us neither the hole that is our environment nor the hole that is our body very pretty.
@ Swede
To be fair that mud puddle does, too.
“Say the puddle was an exact mathematically perfect”
"utterly complex”
“geometric design.”
"And the puddle says "I bet this formed by blind natural chance of some kind".”
“Come on though lets get real here.”
Confused?
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