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2. And these questions can be asked in a philosphy class
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 10:25 AM
Jan 2015

where they logically belong.

Actually the world does not teem with life. It is struggled to maintain a foothold in a very narrow volume on a planet that represents a very small percentage of the total mass of the solar system. Not to mention it is pretty obvious that most of the observable mass in this galaxy is incapable of biological life as we know it. Some other rocks may contain a similar small biosphere - mostly likely they do for single celled organisms.

Why there is something rather than nothing pushes the limits of cosmology and probably is not a useful topic to study in school. We just don't know for sure. Several hypothesis exist involving quantum mechanics and singularities, but we are uncertain as to how to even test these hypotheses to this point.

Easy call on why the natural processes continue to function the way that they do. Chemistry and physics have explained much about our surrounding world.

Good question about the cosmos. We do not understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy. We may be getting closer but again we don't have sufficient instruments to test the many hypotheses.

What keeps the biosphere contained. Gravity. That is an easy one.

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