What you might expect:
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What you find instead:
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| A single type of life, if the
probabilities of life forming are low. |
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Complementary life forms (plants and
animals), whose inputs (food and respiration sources) and outputs (waste
products) provide balance in the biosphere. |
| Asexual reproduction. |
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Bisexual reproduction, which requires a
highly complicated matching of physical organs, hormonal cycles, cells,
etc. (How did genders develop in the first place? Wouldn't
an organism capable of reproducing itself be more likely to survive than
the first ones to evolve genders? Who did it mate with if its parent was
asexual?) |
| Life based on the same distribution of
amino acids which occur naturally in space and in "Miller-Urey"
type experiments. |
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Amino acids exist in mirror-image pairs, a
molecular quality called chirality and are either left-handed or
right-handed. For little-known reasons and with rare exceptions, amino
acids in living organisms are left-handed. |
| Highly specialized behaviors and complex
physical adaptations evolving only once. |
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Winged flight, for instance, must have
"evolved" independently in insects, birds and mammals (bats) and even
"flying" fish. Sonar must have evolved separately in porpoises and
bats. |
| Mutations adding genetic information,
creating new and advantageous characteristics. |
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Mutations demonstrating a loss of genetic
information, causing crippling deformities. |
| Many plants and animals in various
"incomplete" or transitional states of evolution. |
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All plants and animals are complete and
highly sophisticated in design and function. How did their
ancestors survive the transition and why is the fossil record missing so
many intermediate life forms that must have existed? |
| Some degree of evolution in all animals. |
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A number of animals are unchanged since
their first appearance in the fossil record. If they were
perfectly adapted then and now, why would some evolve into higher forms
and others remain exactly the same? |
| Clear ancestral paths for all life forms. |
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Plants seemed to have exploded into
existence. No clear evolutionary ancestors to insects. |
| Characteristics of higher animals which
show only improved adaptations based on "survival of the fittest." |
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Qualities in humans which have no
evolutionary purpose for survival and no ancestral equivalent in other
animals, such as creativity, art, music, poetry, literature and the
ability to ponder the meaning of life and to seek God. |
The
unnatural aspects of our universe aren't limited to biological examples:
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What you might expect:
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What you find instead:
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| Non-living matter organizing into higher
states of energy and complexity. |
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Non-living matter settling into lower
states of energy and more randomness |
| A small, odd shaped moon in an odd orbit
after being formed by a massive collision with another object (CLICK
for current theories for the moon's formation). |
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A perfect lunar sphere, precisely
distanced and aligned with the sun to create two identical sized spheres
in the sky, 93 million miles apart, capable of creating a total solar
eclipse. What are the odds of that happening "naturally?" |
| Ever increasing sophistication in
mankind's technology. |
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Technologies of ancient civilizations
which surpass ours and are still beyond our comprehension. |
| No matter, everything collapsing into one
black hole or expanding forever after the big bang as energy. |
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Matter, requiring a precise balance of
energy and all the "natural" laws of physics. |
And here are some
submitted by you, the readers:
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| Life taking the simplest route for adaptation |
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Life adding complexity unnecessarily |
| Evolving laws of physics |
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Stable laws of physics |
| One type of life in one environment |
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Different life in exactly the same environments |
| Human offspring with new and different features |
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Children resembling their parents |
| Occasional mutations that might possibly increase the
design or potential of a human |
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Not a single beneficial mutation, even minor, among billions of
humans |
| Total chaos in human thought |
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Very organized thinking abilities |
| The chicken before the egg |
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The egg before the chicken? |
| A random arrangement and interaction of electrons
around the atom |
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Highly ordered arrangement of electrons following specific rules of
interaction |
| Life forms arranged in rock strata from simple to
complex |
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Most complex life forms represented in lowest Cambrian layer |
| Random sexual activity |
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Many species with life long mates |
| A link among all of the world's languages |
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Relatively simultaneous emergence of many different written and
spoken languages |
| An atmosphere that doesn't support life |
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An atmosphere with a perfect balance of inert and active gases
required to support life, unlike that on any other planet. |
| A sun too close or too far to support life |
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The sun perfectly positioned and the earth tilted at a perfect angle
to provide constant life supporting temperatures. |
| Thermodynamics of water resembling that of other
substances |
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Thermodynamics of water opposite of other substances making our
ecosystem possible |
All human societies tending to structure in the same
way
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Every cultural group as individual and unique as the
last |
| Continuing variance among human races
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Stable patterns of human race |
| Protons of an atom repelling because of like charges |
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Nuclei that stay together despite like charges |
| Man being completely like animals with no moral
inclination whatsoever |
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Man has conscience, feels guilt, knows between right and
wrong |
