Read the passage to answer the question:What is life? A little scum of no importance on the surface of an unimportant globe circling round a second-rate star? An accidental conglomeration of atoms which have come together by an odd chance, the result of an exceedingly improbable happening? That is what some astronomers would have us think. Looking out into the depth of space, they have discovered a universe of unthinkable dimensions. A billion suns in our own galaxy, beyond it perhaps a billion galaxies, only revealed to us as tiny smudges on a photographic plate. No wonder they are impressed by the enormous disparity between the scaffolding and the result. Life seemed to be, as Jeans said, 'an utterly unimportant by-product' in a universe which was clearly not designed for life, and which, to all appearances, is either totally indifferent or definitely hostile to it'. It seemed 'incredible that the universe can have been designed primarily to produce life like our own; had it been so, surely we have might expected to find a a better proportion between the magnitude of the mechanism and the amount of the product.According to the author if the universe had been designed primarily to produce life like our own then:

Correct answer: B. there would have been a better proportion for us

  • A. there would have been a smaller proportion for us
  • B. there would have been a better proportion for us
  • C. there would have been more luxuries in the universe
  • D. there would have be many galaxies containing many creatures
  • E. there would have been many new stars and earths

Explanation

The author demeans the idea that the universe is primarily designed to produce life, supporting it by the fact that there is so little life in-universe as mentioned in the lines below: "It seemed 'incredible that the universe can have been designed primarily to produce life-like our own; had it been so, surely we might be expected to find a better proportion"

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