(April 9, 2025 at 11:24 am)Drew_2013 Wrote:(April 8, 2025 at 9:07 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: You seem awfully fixated on carbon-based life. Or humans. Or life as we know it. It reveals your bias since none of those are necessary. Once you accept the possibility of "life as we don't yet understand it" the odds become much greater. You don't seem to be able to get around your anthropocentric biases here.I do accept it as a naturalism in the gaps argument for sure. Apparently you do as well.
I see that you've learned a new word. Perhaps you should learn what it means. God of the Gaps is where theists try to hide their nonexistent deity, currently located "before" the Big Bang due to habitat loss. Nobody is trying to hide natural explanations.
And apparently you didn't understand my point. You don't need carbon-based life. You don't need carbon, or even matter as we know it. If you change the fundamental constants and that gives rise to some bizarre conditions where dark matter starts to interact and that rubbish self-organizes and gains sentience then you have met all the conditions for producing a universe where something will go "Wow! Fine-tuning!" even though it's utterly hostile to you and I. Your inability to figure out how many possible combinations can produce sentience means that you have no idea what the odds are.
Your argument reduces to "Wow! Shit I don't understand! Must be magick!"