(September 20, 2012 at 10:54 am)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: The fine tuning of the initial conditions of our universe to support life is simply incredible.
First, it is highly unlikely that our big bang is, was or will ever be the only possible universe.
That said, of all the past, present and future universes, this just happens to be the one we are in and the only one of which we can be aware. We cannot be in one that does not support life.
There may have been a 'gazillion' universes before one had the right conditions for us to come into existence. Regardless of the infinitesimally small chance, we are here by chance. No magic, no sky daddy.
And yes, it is incredible, but it is not due to "fine tuning".
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
