Rachell Powell
speaker
762 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jan
Rachell Powell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 1.
Appearances
cosmos, right?
There's no stellar engineering, there's no ships, there's no bots, all this stuff.
Um, and so, so, you know, this seems paradoxical.
How do we explain it?
And I think that it's paradoxical when you assume a sort of physics like orientation to the world, a Copernican like orientation.
Um, and, but of course the,
The evolutionists, like the Gigi Simpsons and the Ernest Myers and all these influential theorists, and I'll talk about Stephen Jay Gould in a minute because he's going to be the first big articulation of this concept of contingency, but they weren't very moved by...
paradox.
They would say, there's not much paradox to talk about.
Why?
Why is that?
You have all the large numbers on your side.
You've got all of the planetary science on your side.
It's because they just saw, and they hadn't fully really articulated very well yet,
Because I'm talking in the 1960s, there were some papers that came out, some of them being quite negative about the SETI project.
I'm sure SETI researchers took it a little bit personally, and it was not helpful to funding their projects and so forth.
But I think what they saw was that when you have this big picture history of life on Earth, as some of these evolutionists did, what they saw was a historical sequence of events that involved
all sorts of formative, quirky outcomes that could easily have been otherwise and that results in these sort of unique evolutionary sequences and trajectories that we cannot just project out into the cosmos the way we might in other physical sciences.
And so like, you know, if you take like the science fiction of the 20th century and actually it continues, it's not much different, but if you take the science fiction of the 20th century, um, you know, where you have, you know, the Star Trek's humanoids and, uh, Star Wars, you know, everything is humanoids.
It's like, you know, um, and, uh,
Showing 61–80 of 762 · page 4 of 39
← Previous
Next →