Cosmology: our galaxy is an oddball (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 14:44 (2586 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I know what a cycle means. I'm discussing THIS universe in this possible cycle, not all the past ones. No infinity of galaxies in this one.

dhw: It makes no difference to the argument. Firstly, you have not explained why you think your God created all these individually different galaxies if his aim was to produce one that would allow life (same problem as the whale and the weaverbird’s nest, if his aim was to produce Homo sapiens). Secondly, quite apart from the fact that we don’t know if THIS universe is finite or not, you can still have an infinity of cycles and galaxies, which means that eventually there is bound to be one that can meet the requirements for life. I am not saying this is so. I am merely defending the atheist case against your theistic proposal.

I have no idea why the universe is so big. All I know is our galaxy is special.