(February 9, 2014 at 6:43 pm)Rayaan Wrote: You are technically correct.
But according to what we do know about the physical properties necessary for life, whether or not a universe allows life to exist is determined by the specific values of the physical constants in that universe, and physicists have discovered that altering any of the constants in our universe even just by 1% would physically prohibit the emergence of life. So maybe that's why the author of that article said that a life-prohibiting universe is vastly more probable than a life-permitting one.
That is life in what perhaps could be the very narrow way we understand it, having only the sample of life on the Earth. If the universe had different constants there could have arisen very different lifeforms asking the same question.
Even if it does turn out that no structures could form without certain narrow parameters, you can't then conclude it must be designed. There are many hypotheses, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_...planations
Perhaps a universe cannot form unless it has certain parameters? Most of this is far beyond testing at the moment. The best thing is to wait until there is enough scientific evidence to support an explanation. Perhaps we will never know.
