(December 5, 2014 at 9:26 am)Jhayward Wrote: If you decide there is no way fine tuning exists, it never will.But without any way to determine whether or not the universe is fine-tuned, that accusation cuts both ways. To determine that the universe is fine-tuned, you must be able to show that its "settings" could be tuned at all. How do you prove that?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
