(August 20, 2015 at 6:15 am)Stimbo Wrote: Picture a rainforest the size of continental America, with all the complex biosphere that implies. Now picture one single atom of gold somewhere in that rainforest. Can it be shown that the rainforest has been fine tuned to produce that gold? Now answer that same question on the scale of the Universe.
Stimbo, this is not analogous. A single atom of gold is not nearly as complex as the Earth, and even less so than a human. Something more analogous would go like this:
Picture a rainforest the size of continental America, with all the complex biosphere that implies. Now picture an atom sized planet with it's own biosphere with immensely complex subatomic sized sentient beings somewhere in that rainforest. Can it be shown that the rainforest has been fine tuned to produce that?
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