(June 7, 2014 at 10:19 am)Napoléon Wrote:(June 7, 2014 at 2:57 am)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: It would imply a statistical improbability. and therefore a lack of intelligent design.
But some of the religious would use it as evidence that life is so fine tuned on this earth alone, pointing towards a creator? Isn't it amazing how god created one world in all the billions? You could point to a creator in both scenarios, that we are alone or surrounded by life makes no difference as far as I'm concerned.
"Fine tuned" is a bullshit argument. Our flawed bodies are so "fine tuned" we can get cancer and be killed by a nano sized bacteria. The universe is so "fine tuned" meteors have hit our planet and will do so again in the future.
The laws of nature are why we are here and the only thing that we can say about our existence is that we are lucky, if you want to call all all the horrific disease, famine crime and war "luck".
Believers simply do not want to face their own finite existence. They do not want to face that the universe was around 14 billion years prior to humans. They do not want to face that our planet's core will run out of energy, and the more likely odds of another meteor hitting us prior to that. They ignore that after our planet dies all life will go extinct, and our sun will die as well. And the universe will continue with no record of our existence.
The biggest problem humans have is their own hubris.
