(August 20, 2015 at 8:47 am)lkingpinl Wrote:(August 20, 2015 at 8:30 am)Stimbo Wrote: Thank you for improving my analogy and then failing utterly to see how it obliterates your original contention even more decisively.
How so exactly?
Because your contention is that the emergence of one single life-bearing planet is the result of the whole rainforest being fine-tuned to produce it, without acknowledging the reasons, such as they may be, for the immensity (let alone the existence) of the rest of the rainforest. A tree falling on the other side of our imaginary continent would have zero impact on this atom-sized world, or a single gold atom, any more than a galaxy exploding billions of lightyears away would on our real Earth. At most, you have established the fine-tuning of the Earth as a biosphere, but even then you have no justification for entertaining non-physical hypotheses.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'