Reddit reviews Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe

You should pick up Life's Solution by Simon Morris. Also check out biologos. The reason that we can't give you specifics is because science is designed to read God out of the picture (and it should be designed that way). Science gives the specifics of how things get done, they just assume God isn't involved and so all the specifics are cast through that lens. Also if science doesn't want to ask the question of how god interacts with the world then how are they going to produce specifics about it. Christian faith can't give specifics because they weren't revealed to us. What was revealed is what it means to be created, made in the image of god and so forth.

You are asking a philosophical question and demanding a scientific answer.

Check out that Morris book I didn't have the chance to read it all but he is not an intelligent design guy not a creationist person but still see the possibility of God in the universe with evolution (which he accepts as fact).

He is also a professor at cambridge and he teaches something like paleobiology. So not a theologian but a scientist.

Let me know what you think.

Hi bendmorris, we could use a good biologist like yourself. :)

> It's a fallacy to think of humans, or animals, or any specific group as "more evolved" than other organisms.

I think you are misreading what I am saying. If evolution converges on certain solutions then as evolution goes on you get these end results as evolution moves forward. You should read Morris' Life's Solution on this.

> There are countless more evolutionary trajectories that have resulted in modern microorganisms

I think you are arguing that somehow there are so many trajectories you should not expect to get humans necessarily. You should read this book written by several great biologists. They disagree with this line of reasoning very strongly. They think convergence shows it is not correct even though it is the standard lore.

Am I so arrogant as to think me a physicist can say the whole biology community is wrong? No, but when several leading biologists do I start to wonder.

But I appreciate your opinion. You should know there are apparently many biologists who see so much convergence in evolution that this lore is being called into question. (In their minds. Read the books for yourself)

> Here's something to ponder that might challenge your human-centric view of the world

I'm not trying to be human centric. It isn't my fault there is a tremendous amount of convergence in evolution and it also isn't my fault if it converges upon many humanlike traits.

But if there was not widespread convergence you would be 100% correct.