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AZPaul3
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Message 59 of 61 (461599)
03-26-2008 3:17 PM
Reply to: Message 54 by Eclogite
03-26-2008 12:03 PM


How do you know the constants are not set to be ideal for life? From the enormous range of possible values for these constants only a very restricted range of each makes life possible.
What makes you think these constraints are set to be ideal for life?
Just because life is here does this mean the universe was tailor made to produce us?
If we look at the evidence we presently have, we have evidence for a big whopping number of all of one instance in the entire universe of life.
That there is a good probability of life being elsewhere in the universe not withstanding, we have no idea how prevalent that life could be around the cosmos nor even how to go about making an estimate. I love the Drake equation but its parameters are at present way too subjective to be of any real use.
So we do not see a universe teeming with abundant life as one might expect in a universe “fine tuned to produce” life.
What we do see are stellar furnaces by the hundreds of billions congregated in hundreds of billions of stellar communities.
Seems to me the evidence we have indicates that the parameters of this universe are most conducive to creating suns, not people.
Life appears to be a trivial incidental coincidence.

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