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Originally Posted by roundbox

this is dumb

people don't want to accept that random things happen in this universe and assume that there's a reason for everything that has happened

for something as lethal and contagious as COVID-19, people automatically assume "something this large and crazy must have been made by something equally large and crazy" instead of just defaulting to the fact that it probably just came into existence randomly after tons of random iterations.
think how many microbial bacteria are around just constantly replicating until they make something that is sustainable. there's no research to support that COVID-19 was created in a laboratory. it was another random fucking virus that became viable in humans after replicating itself in tons of different forms until one started thriving. it's called evolution. you think these things sleep? no, they just try and stay alive and reproduce.

if we're going to assign ourselves to assuming something nefarious had a nefarious cause, we can just go back to assuming earthquakes and tornadoes are a result of divine wrath instead of thinking about them scientifically

I wish I had the YouTube video for this, since it was a talk from Neil deGrasse Tyson involving his book, but he made an astounding example comparative to this. All I've found in relation to it was a short video here explaining the thought experiment, but not the context. https://www.express.co.uk/videos/611...ing-experiment

Context being, that many people think something happens in the world for a reason, maybe they're special, when in all possibilities, nothing is special. For example, the way the universe unraveled itself was a 1 in 1,000,000 chance. It literally should not have happened with our current understanding of physics and science. But in a place where parallel or multiple universes could exist, 1 in 1,000,000 is unfathomably small compared to infinity, that it's bound to happen. As much as we acknowledge the 1 in 1,000,000 chance being special, we don't acknowledge the 999,999 other universes out there where nothing happened at all in the big bang.