Information Complication (General)

by dhw, Sunday, November 22, 2015, 12:58 (3287 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: The universe obviously allows life on this planet in this solar system. I don't know how you can tell that all the other solar systems that have come and gone over the last 13,800,000,000 years - not to mention the eternity that may have preceded the Big Bang (if it ever happened) - were also finely tuned to allow for the one and only life we know, which is ours.-DAVID: Hard to imagine this is the only time it happened.-dhw: Agreed, given eternity, but that hardly proves that every single solar system in the whole history of the universe has been finely tuned to allow for life. 

DAVID: I was referring to the past universes. In this universe our solar system may well be the only one with life.-But you are still trying to make out that the billions of solar systems past and present in THIS universe have been finely tuned to allow for life on Earth. How do you know?-DAVID: But you just introduced an infinity of possibilities.-dhw: Wrong reference. The choice was between mindless chance, and “a sourceless intelligence, either ‘divine' or integral to energy and matter”.-DAVID: And the information that runs the universe and life can arise by chance? No choice to me.-I know your opinion. I was only correcting your reference.