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Science: Conditions that were favorable for the formation of the basic hydrocarbons of life just happened to exist on Earth, with its fortunate position in the "Goldilocks Zone". Earth was potentially 'seeded' by impacts of comets that just happened to be a byproduct of the happily accidental way our solar system was formed. Earth also luckily has a huge moon in relation to its size, a moon that just happens to help stabilize the planet's axis and climate, not to mention protection from a massive gas giant that just happens to help keep the inner solar system relatively impact free for the last couple billion years, making for optimal conditions for the development of life. All of this is possible because, out of the infinite possibilities to choose from, we got a universe where the strong and weak forces just happened to be the right strength to allow nuclear reactions to take place and the force of gravity is luckily not so weak that gas can't coalesce into stars and not so strong that stable, main sequence stars can't form, if any could form at all, and all the members of the particle families just happened to turn out to have the properties that they do. This may be because the hyperdimensional shape formed by up to 7 extra dimensions that are too small for us to detect by any current means coincidentally happens, out of infinite valid selections, to have a shape that gives rise to a universe with the laws of physics as we know them. Religion: God created the universe, set up the laws it runs by and brought forth life on Earth, ultimately culminating in humankind. So if I'm going by Ockham's Razor, which should I pick? The one where everything depends on a huge chain of coincidental occurrences that have about the same chance of happening as me hitting every lottery in the world every day for the rest of my life? Or the one where everything happens because a universe designed to produce sentient life is working as intended?
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