• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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    9 hours ago

    This entire pie chart makes up the less than 5% of the actual Universe made up of particles that our crude senses and instruments can detect.

    We are a bit of cosmic pollution; the Universe would be essentially unchanged if all normal matter in it disappeared.

    And some people think Sky Daddy made the whole thing Just For Them

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      7 hours ago

      While dark matter does appear to be a real physical thing we just can’t detect very well (since we can roughly detect where it is and isn’t, and it sometimes shows up where ordinary matter is absent, or is absent where ordinary matter is), I’m not totally convinced that dark energy is actually physical energy – the same effects could potentially be explained by some as-yet undiscovered property of spacetime itself, without any unseen ‘energy’ causing it to do that.

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      7 hours ago

      While I agree, this line of argument could be taken to bolster Sky Daddy’s love for us and only us.

      The whole universe is so different from us, but our little bitty part is just right. Clearly, Sky Daddy made the particles our crude sense and instruments can detect just for us, but Sky Daddy truly is unknowable (and made of the other stuff).

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        What are the chances that we would evolve on a planet with the perfect atmosphere and biome for us to survive? Checkmate, atheists.

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          What is the chance anteaters would evolve on a planet with the perfect atmosphere and biome for them to survive? Do you think the perfect food just randomly evolved by happenstance? Obviously this universe was created for anteaters.