It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence … - Thomas Nagel

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Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

Thomas Nagel

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical
chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.

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