Cosmologic philosophy: 5 articles on fine tuning (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, November 24, 2016, 15:26 (2921 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:But yes, the properties of our particular blob are such that life exists.

Looks like a miracle to me.

dhw: The big bang, if it happened, was – we are told – NOT an explosion. How does anyone know what to expect after an event which – assuming it ever took place – nobody has ever experienced? In all this unfathomable vastness, who knows what else is going on and has gone on and could go on?

Not an explosion but an origin. Something eternal had to cause it.

David’s comment: the universe sure looks designed to me. And to you?

dhw: I can’t see the universe. Nobody can. We can only see part of it. But I agree, the part that affects us directly does look designed. On the other hand, billions of solar systems coming and going to no apparent purpose look pretty un-designed. It’s the same old monkey on a typewriter quandary. Given possible eternity and infinity, maybe anything is possible, and maybe it isn’t. Let’s just be mighty thankful that we are the lucky ones, no matter how it all happened.

Billions of solar systems follow a design for solar systems. Why does that design exist? A reason for their existence is not yet apparent from our scientific observations, but like the human retina which looks totally wrong, reason may be found.