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Originally Posted by Von Due
Ah. I see and I'm sorry for any confusion but there was no u-turn. Both posts were just me loosely thinking out loud that given the huge amount of time evolution is talking about, the beginning of life and the following evolution here on earth is close to inevitable and not, as some others claim, impossible.
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Ah, that clears it. I got the completely opposite impression of what you meant.
Modern cosmological theory seems to postulate that "nothing" cannot avoid to result in "something". "Nothing" is not the absence of anything, but is somethign which has traits, qualities, namely the one to let thing sspring into existence. My question there just is if this pragmatical understanding of "nothing" as just the astronomical void (which is not really all that empty) indeed is the nothing that philosophy means. Obviously it is not. "Nothing" in the meaning of absence of anything existing cannot carry traits, obviously. Traits are not nothing.
This stuff makes me dizzy at times.