Quote:That theory, as far as I'm concerned, has been pretty much disproven.
Really? By what evidence? It's a pretty sound theory. Species who reproduce asexually are very vulnerable to parasites and even slight changes in the environmwent, and there's plenty of evidence for that.
Such as:
Quote:backbending efforts a lot of botanists and biologists go through to keep certain species of produce alive because they reproduce asexually and are extremely susceptible to being decimated by one good disease?
Quote:aid that what we generally label as evolution is just a function/feature of the system, it is not the system.
What "system"? The law of physics?
Quote:Life is built on the properties inherent in the design of our universe.
You said it yourself. What we call "life" is built on the properties of the universe. If those properties were different, we would have something else.
Your argument is pretty much a retelling of the classic anthropic principle, an argument that has been shown to be biased (and a tautology) by pretty much every self-respecting philosopher of science.
Moreover, studies (like Stenger's paper thar I have already cited on this thread) have shown that if even if we change the properties of our universe by a factor of 25%, those changed properties still produce stars and Earth-like planets.
So basically carbon-based life would be 25% likely. Not such a small probability.
Quote:Even if you have a multiverse (which we don't)
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
Quote:"Our mulitverse has the right properties to produces a universe that's just right like ours, ..." It doesn't make the "design" of the universe any less wonderful or unique or special.
In a multiverse, many possible universes would be produced, so it very likely to produce one that supports carbon-based life.
Even if an universe that supports carbon-based life is only 0.00001% likely (and it has been shown that such a universe is much more likely thsn that) a billion universes in a multiverse (and if we had multiverse, we'd have far more universes than that) would very likely produce roughly one thousand life-supporting universes.
