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    When it comes to a way to demonstrate climate urgency, this article is it.

    Started by RE Today at 09:41 AM

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    That was a long way of saying you believe the Universe and Life is Random, but it clearly isn't.  There's a whole bunch of rules we already have elucidated from how many Quarks & Gluons it takes to make up a Proton to how fast light travels to what numbers of Protons and Neutrons are stable together to what nucleic acids code for what proteins to what numbers of appendages an animal will have...and so on.  If the Universe and Life were random, there would be no discernible pattern, but there is.

    Religions just posit a purpose, science gives evidence of organization and planning.  It's a black box though, we can observe the effects of the organization, we just can't see inside the box to figure out how or why it's organized in this way.  Sort of like figuring out DNA is a Double Helix, it's too small too actually see the structure.  The way it was figured out was by bouncing Xrays off crystals of a DNA hydrate, which gave a reflection that if you analyze mathematically is characteristic of a helix.  Very neat trick actually, which Rosalind Franklin should have received the Nobel Prize alon with Watson, Crick & Wilkins.  She was the crystalographer.



    Anyhow, DNA's structure and how it works is something that was inside the box we didn't know before 1953, now we do.  There's a whole lot more inside the box we still have little clue on, but in a million more years we might have had a shot.  How the brain works to organize thoughts and emotions is pretty much a mystery, besides identifying a few areas in the organ responsible for various tasks.  Better understanding that might have given a clue as to the purpose of the  organization necessary to build it.  Not gonna happen though.

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