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The Mystery of Existence: Where did natural environments and complex organisms came from? What is the origin of life ? Part 2 with Richard Dawkins, Jessica Frazier, Silvia Jonas, Richard Swinburne and Jack Symes

Unbelievable?

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The Mystery of Existence

The mystery of existence was our title, and it makes a sound as if existence was one kind of thing. But actually we're dealing with lots of different kinds of existence from the laws of nature to contingent concrete entities running around your cat. So it's not that there's one thing, there are multiple forms, and some are what we might call more extraordinary relative to what we usually see around us than others. If you roll those back and look for a physics explanation at the bottom of all of them, you get something that is going to beextraordinary.

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