RE: Cosmological Fine Tuning
December 15, 2011 at 2:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2011 at 3:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Strong and weak anthropic principle. It would be more surprising if the universe wasn't suited to life at all, and yet here we were. 
"Fine-tuned for life" must be a relatively broad notion to include everything that seems "fine-tuned" for destroying life. We could always just wave that away through clever redefinition, or a favorable set of qualifiers. So hell, let's just go along with this as though it weren't garbage. The universe is fine tuned, but it says nothing about the tuner, not even so much as whether or not it would be a conscious entity (or when this tuning occurred). I say the "fine tuner" is a rock floating somewhere off in the cosmos. Everything bounced off of it just right. I have evidence that rocks float through the cosmos, case closed.
"Fine-tuned for life" must be a relatively broad notion to include everything that seems "fine-tuned" for destroying life. We could always just wave that away through clever redefinition, or a favorable set of qualifiers. So hell, let's just go along with this as though it weren't garbage. The universe is fine tuned, but it says nothing about the tuner, not even so much as whether or not it would be a conscious entity (or when this tuning occurred). I say the "fine tuner" is a rock floating somewhere off in the cosmos. Everything bounced off of it just right. I have evidence that rocks float through the cosmos, case closed.
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