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The Mystery of Existence: Why is there something rather than nothing? Part 1 with Richard Dawkins, Jessica Frazier, Silvia Jonas, Richard Swinburne and Jack Symes

Unbelievable?

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The Mystery of Existence

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection in this most general form is the only explanation we know that it can lead from simplicity to complexity. If there is life elsewhere in the universe, I think there probably is, but if there is then it will be Darwinian life. It will have come about by some version of random variation followed by non-random survival. That is the only formula I believe we know that is capable of lifting simplicity to the level of complexity.

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