I think that THIS chart is a pretty good replacement.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
You don't have to believe you were made in the image of God to feel special. You already are special.
I read an article years ago that laid out just how improbable your very existence was considering all of the possibilities, but could never find it again.
I think that THIS chart is a pretty good replacement.
Are you impressed with yourself? Well I am.
I think that THIS chart is a pretty good replacement.
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I often contemplate this..how amazing conception and birth are. So many things have to go right. And they do most of the time.
ReplyDeleteI might be if I could actually read it. It doesn't enlarge like most pictures. Maybe it's a Safari problem.
ReplyDeleteThis was really sweet, and just the kind of unexpected thing that keeps me returning to your blog!
ReplyDeleteIn all humility, though, I regard myself not as a miracle but as a random inevitability. The symbiogenesis of ancestors back to the beginning of time could have resulted in nothing else BUT you. Or me. This makes me think of the Calvin & Hobbes strip wherein Calvin realizes he is the pinnacle of evolution and all the universe has conspired towards his existence, and he asks his pet tiger what he should do with his wonderful self.
They go inside and watch violent cartoons.
I don't know. I read the huge coffee table book Cosmos and felt more insignificant than ever. While we may be unusual in our birth and lives, as far as the rest of the universe we are just a "meh" in time.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet the odds that you are not somebody else are only 1 in 7 billion.
ReplyDeleteHere's the math: there are 7 billion people on this planet; you have to be one of them.
Impossible to read.
ReplyDeleteFor those that are having a hard time reading the chart:
ReplyDeleteClick on "THIS chart" link (before the graphic), that will bring you to the website. Then, click on the graphic or click on the "enlarge button".
That will make it easy to see.
Even when I click on the link, I still can't read it. Very poor illustration!
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a special I saw on National Geographic years ago, it went into other details (the inhospitablitly of the alkiline environment in the vagina to the viablility of sperm, for an example) but came to the same conslusion.
ReplyDeleteI chuckled when they named the ovum "Sally" and the sperm "Harry", cute referernce to the movie.
Seeing it in this graphic form does the topic justice.