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Dude... it's really weird to quote varius tiny details of the natural world as proofs of the existence of a god. At what point is the particular system under observation dull enough for someone to believe that it would not have needed an 'outside' designer?

Because, the amazingly crazy details are present at every tiny bit of matter, alive or not. We don't know how to make life? Yeah, well, we don't know how to make energy either (we just transform it). And organization? Every friggin atom is apparently composed of the same kind of elementary particles that know how to behave with other particular kinds of particles when they interact with them exactly by the same rules.

Matter is not a chaotic soup. It's a dance by very specific rules.

The whole universe is rigged for organization. Why? I surely don't know.

I believe in the universe being awesome. It probably gives me same vibes as the belief in God gives others. I suggest we leave it at that.

But as mind blowing details of the natural world go:

Self similarity is a mathematical artifact of nature and you can observe this in "simple" matter. A one of the most striking examples of this is the von Karman vortex pattern that can be observed at any scale when there is a small obstruction in a 'flat' flow.

If you google 'von karman vortex' the image results will mostly display images of cloud vortices. However, the same pattern can be observed for instance around rocks in streams (even really tiny rocks in really tiny streams).




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