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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (20342)	2/15/2008 10:31:40 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Sorry, the fine tuning of the universe is well attested by leading physicists: There is a sample size of one universe. You can't say squat about that. I can say its the only universe we know exists. But you are free to believe in a multitude things unseen if you wish. With planets, we are going to find thousands of them, and it will become pretty clear that only a few of them are suitable for life, We already know that from our own solar system. in which case it will look rather statistically likely that ours was not made for us, but we happened to evolve here because it was possible. The same is true of our evolving in the universe. If we only knew of one planet, the Earth, people could also claim the earth was uniquely designed for us. Irrelevant. The universe needs to be as big as it is (and thus needs to have a bunch of stars and planets which don't directly support life) in order for life to exist here or anywhere else it may. the multiple universe theory, which originally was not well received, is much better accepted now. Not because we can perceive the multiple (actually infinite) universes. But because its people are realizing its either believe in an infinity of unseen universes or believe in an unseen intelligent designer. And people make their choice. Oh BTW, there is still an issue with the infinite universe hypothesis - what is it that generates the infinity of universes? Something certainly, but what? A universe generating machine, maybe.