Far out cosmology: does dark energy kill galaxies? (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, March 27, 2017, 11:55 (2797 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: I don't see how Barnes and I differ. My only point from his text was our area of the universe is special and we are here.

Dhw: You suggest that the incredible specialness suggests God at work, and he suggests that the vastness allows for even the most improbable event. The classic clash between God and chance.

DAVID: I would emphasize from Barnes' comment: 'in our region of space' is where we exist. Barnes is religious and must make the comment allowing for chance as a balanced statement of possibility. Perhaps God's vastness in the universe allows for that chance arrangement in our area, most likely under God's guidance.

“Under God’s guidance” would hardly constitute chance. The “balanced statement of possibility” was what I was pointing out - just to balance your own comment.