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Odds for Life
There are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. In standard notation that’s 100,000,000,000 Since the Hubble Space Telescope has pushed our eyes ever farther into the observable universe, astronomers now believe that there are more than 200 billion galaxies. That’s 200,000,000,000 If our Milky Way is an “average” galaxy, then there must…
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Mind Before Matter
There are only two possibilities. Either mind arose from matter, or matter arose from mind. Either we, with our minds having such apparently limitless potential, arose from billions of years of chance meetings between various bits of matter, or everything that is was purposely created by a mind vaster than we can imagine. Which is…