Atheists & Agnostics

RedCloud

(9,230 posts) Mon Aug 31, 2015, 03:19 PM Aug 2015

I think sperm and egg are united with us!

With so many sperm cells being produced and many millions or billions dying along the way (if there is a way for years at a time!) and some reaching the coveted egg only to die trying to penetrate and so many millions of cells that could be eggs, why not just one egg and one sperm if we are not just some galactic "crap shoot". I say we are flukes of the universe. What sayeth ye?

http://www.livescience.com/32437-why-are-250-million-sperm-cells-released-during-sex.html

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I think sperm and egg are united with us! (Original Post) RedCloud Aug 2015 OP

Surely the disincarnate soul chooses which sperm to build the body it wants to incarnate into Binkie The Clown Aug 2015 #1

It sounds to me that the egg is supreme Angry Dragon Aug 2015 #2

Flukes of the universe AlbertCat Aug 2015 #3

Go placidly amid the noise and haste... progressoid Aug 2015 #6

You beat me to it! onager Sep 2015 #7

Seriously folks.... AlbertCat Aug 2015 #4

God is the most prolific abortionist on the planet. AtheistCrusader Aug 2015 #5

Defund Him! Arugula Latte Sep 2015 #8

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

1. Surely the disincarnate soul chooses which sperm to build the body it wants to incarnate into

Reply to RedCloud (Original post)

Mon Aug 31, 2015, 03:24 PM

Aug 2015

I read somewhere that Quantum Physics has already proven that to be the case.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

2. It sounds to me that the egg is supreme

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 31, 2015, 04:35 PM

Aug 2015

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

3. Flukes of the universe

Reply to RedCloud (Original post)

Mon Aug 31, 2015, 04:36 PM

Aug 2015

progressoid

(53,367 posts)

6. Go placidly amid the noise and haste...

Reply to AlbertCat (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 31, 2015, 05:47 PM

Aug 2015

onager

(9,356 posts)

7. You beat me to it!

Reply to progressoid (Reply #6)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 07:19 AM

Sep 2015

As a bonus - from the same great album, here's "John Lennon" (Tony Hendra) fulminating about a certain band member's woo tendencies and attitude toward Yoko...

George said she gave the Beatles bad vibes,
I shoulda beat the fucking shit right out of him,
Him and his fucking Hare Krishna...

https://m.

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

4. Seriously folks....

Reply to RedCloud (Original post)

Mon Aug 31, 2015, 04:42 PM

Aug 2015

I like what Richard DAWKINS!!!111!11!1 says....

about the possible number of combinations of egg and sperm to create a new person is this HUGE number, bigger than all the stars in the universe. The number of those that actually come together and realize themselves into a real person is a tiny tiny percentage of this huge huge number. So tiny in fact that it is a Privilege to just be.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

5. God is the most prolific abortionist on the planet.

Reply to RedCloud (Original post)

Mon Aug 31, 2015, 05:13 PM

Aug 2015

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)

8. Defund Him!

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 2, 2015, 01:13 PM

Sep 2015

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