How did we get here?

I mean, literally, not just you and me, but the whole shabang.

How is any kind of life possible?

The universe is a hostile place.

Solar fliers, cosmic rays, asteroids flying about.

The odds against our existence are truly astronomical.

Take it from me, I'm an astrophysicist.

My job is to look out into space at stars and galaxies trying to answer these basic,

how did the universe come to be questions?

Well, those who have a religious faith have an answer.

God.

The Earth's distance from the sun, the size of the atom,

and a thousand other things large and small that allow us to live and to breathe and to think,

all seem perfectly tuned for our existence.

To many, this design suggests a designer.

But from our purely scientific point of view, the faithful have a big problem.

They can offer no indisputable proof for this belief.

Because of the lack of hard evidence, it's probably not surprising

that over 70% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences declare themselves to be atheists.

But they have a big problem too.

Apps in a creator, how did they account for the existence of the universe,

of planet Earth, of human consciousness?

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