Junk DNA: goodbye!: Review article (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 20:33 (3539 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: You wrote that the universe is fine tuned “for the universe as we know it to even exist”. I see no difference between “as we know it” and “in its current state”. If the parameters of physics were not as they are, they would be different, and so we might have a different universe. Nobody knows what is possible because we have nothing to compare our universe to, and so both sides insist that because the universe is as it is, it has to be as it is, and somehow that supports their case. I still see this “if” as a dead end.-It is not a dead end. The concept of fine tuning is tied to life as we know it. It cannot be known if another type of life is possible. Carbon-based life based on our periodic table of elements is the best arrangement for what we have available. What I am saying that this is possibly the only life-bearing universe possible.