Epistemology of Design; Is the cosmologic constant wrong? (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 18:05 (5055 days ago) @ David Turell

The universe is fine-tuned for life. It provided all the elements and conditions for an iron-rich(and metal rich)solar systerm in which an Earth could appear and foster life somehow. Only certain universes in a multiverse can do this. There seems to be general agreeemnt on this point. The anthropic principal is a handmaiden to it.-A very recent paper states that the cosmologic constant (which measures the energy density of the vacuum) should be slightly negative rather than slightly positive for the 'best opportunity'to create life, and thereore this universe is not really fine-tuned for life.-http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26276/