(August 20, 2015 at 8:20 am)Neimenovic Wrote:(August 20, 2015 at 8:11 am)lkingpinl Wrote: I will get in to the fine tuning in a little bit, but I'm sure you are aware that leading scientists, including Professor Hawking, talk about the appearance of precision, design and fine-tuning with the cosmological constant and so on. That any marginal difference in certain parameters and the universe would not exist as we know it.
Exactly! What kind of a designer creates something a hair away from a catastrophe? Who builds a house inches away from a steep gorge?
But how is that different from any piece of precision engineering? Any mechanical engineer will tell you that in designing something there are small margins of error and if something falls outside of that margin it may cause the entire piece to non-function. Would you want the engineers of your car to be more loose with their precision in designing it? An electrical engineer is even more rigid and that it MUST be these precise calculations or it won't work at all, if a voltage is a little too high, it could be a fire. That to me is why the precision and margin of error being so small in the universe's properties shows intelligent design.
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