Originally posted by googlefudgeIt is like imagining that everything came into existence by accident and
That is irrelevant.
The point of a thought experiment is to do a 'what if' scenario that enables conclusions to be drawn about reality.
It is a common thing to do in science to imagine what the world were different (in a specified way) and use that
as a comparison with how the world is.
It's also useful in criminal investigation (unsurprising as ...[text shortened]... tangible difference then that would tend to suggest the non-existence of god in this reality.
there was no intelligence behind it but by chance intelligence resulted.
This is real science, is it?