Thank you, it figures Douglas Adams would be able to phrase it so concisely.
Every argument from fine tuning and design assumes the necessity of design, seemingly because anthropomorphizing and assigning motives seems to be an unavoidable human shortcoming.
It's easy to think in terms of a bigger, more powerful consciousness being the driving force behind what we observe, than it is to realize how often we project our own consciousness onto the world to interpret it.
Children think their parents are getting a divorce as a result of something they've done. Primitive people think hurricanes are a result of bad thoughts and actions that upset some force.
Just because one's own consciousness fools one into thinking they're the center of the universe doesn't make it so.
Every argument from fine tuning and design assumes the necessity of design, seemingly because anthropomorphizing and assigning motives seems to be an unavoidable human shortcoming.
It's easy to think in terms of a bigger, more powerful consciousness being the driving force behind what we observe, than it is to realize how often we project our own consciousness onto the world to interpret it.
Children think their parents are getting a divorce as a result of something they've done. Primitive people think hurricanes are a result of bad thoughts and actions that upset some force.
Just because one's own consciousness fools one into thinking they're the center of the universe doesn't make it so.
