(September 12, 2010 at 9:01 am)solja247 Wrote: So far we are the only inteligent beings, in this universe to contemplate existence and other complicated questions......that we know of. We know very little about the other planets in our solar system...let alone the rest of the galaxy, or the universe. You cannot justify your blanket statement about the rest of the universe in any meaningful way.
What you said here is like having a warehouse filled with a billion coloured balls, you picking up a single ball, seeing that it is green, and then declaring "there are no other green balls in this warehouse". You cannot justify that statement unless you look at all the other balls.
Quote:You are getting your arguements mixed up. The Arthmophic principle is about the Earth appears to be designed for us (Earth is the only planet with water in all three forms). However, the fine tuning arguement is about if the parameters were out just a little bit no elements or universe would exist today. No stars, black holes, planets etc, the fine tuning arguement is compelling...The difference is irrelevant. In both arguments, humans would not exist if the variable were slightly different, and therefore the argument wouldn't exist. It is precisely the same as the puddle waking up one morning and thinking the hole in the ground had been made for him, since he fits in it so perfectly. All the fine-tuning argument tells us is that either the universe was designed *for* us, or we are simply a result of the universe being the way it is. It doesn't prove either possibility, and is therefore a useless argument in the first place...hardly "compelling".
