The abundance of life

Submitted by jhwierenga on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 10:25

Our planet has an astonishing power of life to produce life forms. Life appears to have originated almost as soon (geologically speaking) as conditions on Earth which could be considered favourable to life arose. Furthermore, life is everywhere on Earth, in almost every niche that it could exist. Lastly, new life forms appear rapidly when the occasion arises. According to the fossil record, new forms of life did not result from gradual change, but arose at once, more or less fully developed. Life has survived multiple extinction events, and rebounded with a host of new species within short periods (geologically speaking). Where pockets of life are geographically isolated, each region develops functionally similar but ontically different life forms.

The mainstream science account of life is fraught with improbabilities. For example, mainstream science has no credible account for the development of molecules which are sufficiently complex to be capable of self-replication.  It involves many interrelated gaps, resulting in an Occam score of 0400, relative to the Big Bang. It may be argued that some of the events required for life to exist and thrive are so unlikely that we are talking about paradoxes, rather than gaps, with a corresponding Occam score of at least 2000 relative to the Big Bang.

The QO account of life is much simpler, and has an Occam score of 0010 relative to QO. It is therefore to be preferred.