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Responsibility for Randomness

The Randomness of Life and Responsibility Speaking in evolutionary terms, the fact that life exists on earth results from random processes. Even Darwinian evolution does not comfort me in its explanation of the origin of life. So it is said that were started as a single-cell organism in Africa, and that cell multiplied, and we became multicellular. Ok, on the cosmology side, they say we are in the Goldilocks zone where the parameters are just right for life on earth. So much seems to have happened by chance in the zillions. If Darwinian evolution is perfect, where are all the other species, like humans who look like you and me but don't have an appendix? The human cell is complicated enough, and the DNA makes matters worse since it contains the code of life. It all reeks of some form of intelligent design than darwin's theory of evolution. On another note, there are more than 100 million Spermatozoa per ej, which means that you are one in zillions. The idea that you made it to ...

Life Outlook (FYI: Not the whole story)

My Life Outlook I'm not the first and not the last to write on this. They have written and will continue writing on this subject. Life is what you make of it. John Milton once said, " The mind is its own place and can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven. " This leads me straight to what Kendrick recently said when he said that " As I get a little older, I realize life is perspective. And my perspective may differ from yours. " I mean, my perspective may differ from my perspective next year. Hence, the disclaimer that this is "Not the whole story". Change is a sign that one is thinking and reconsidering his position based on new information/evidence. Change is growth. I will hate to hold the same views I hold today in 5 years. But, if I still have the same opinion, I need to have more evidence than I do today. Life is a perspective. Reality remains objective; we just mess it up when we run it through our mostly subjective interpreter software: the...