James Le Fanu: Why Us? (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Thursday, July 23, 2009, 02:43 (5601 days ago) @ xeno6696

Which is why I feel at this point I need to attack your 1).
 
> We can't safely make that claim. See your final sentence above. As far as knowledge goes all we can do is state that our universe indeed, exists, and it is capable of supporting life. To infer that it is "finely tuned" for life makes a series of assumptions that can only be safely made with a helluva lot more knowledge than we currently possess. - Matt: You need to read some lay books on the standard cosmologic theory. There are 20 major parameters that must be finely tuned for life and 100 minor parameters tuned the same way. This is why the Anthropic Principal is so revered by some folks and they start talking about mutlverses. All the cosmologists accept that this universe allows life. Fred Hoyle called it "A put up job". In the same breath I am not saying someone 'tuned' it.