[Quranic Reflection]: The tolerance the Quran gave non-believers

[LadyForCamus]

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Hello Klorophyll!

So, starting with the second premise first.

Physicists don't actually assert that the atoms, quarks, gluons etc are "Precisely tuned".

They are saying that the fundamental bits are like they are 'Just because'.

They keep building bigger and better atom smashers because they want to work out the 'Why' fundamental particles are as/what they are.

In fact, there's an idea that the 'Rest mass' of say electrons actually might just suddenly change/drop one day.  

There by setting off a cascade chain of events that literally, at the speed of ligh and perhapse even faster, 'Over-write' our reality (Erasing it) as the new 'Rest state' instantly becomes the normal.

As for "The beginning of everything" ?

Again physicists aren't quite saying that.

What they are saying is that 'There's a period waaaay back in time when everything was like 'X'.

.As in such a high energy state that litteraly NOTHING in our current reality matches that much 'Energy'.

There are no stars big or small enough to generate 5he mind bending physics such a state was.

Even the reality distorting/destroying physics of  black holes (Which again we're guessing and poking at) are/is just an approximation of such energy states.

Things were so weirdly different that time, space, reality as we know/understand/model just doesn't work.

So? The physicists keep thinking, testing and working things out. The better to understand such things.

Cheers.

It'a little bit more than that, physical constants are the way they are to alllow life to happen. That's way we think there was a plan for us, the tiniest change means a lifeless and completely different universe. Of course one can just say life just happened and here we are talking about it, but then it becomes impossible to change your mind if you say the same thing no matter how compelling is the evidence for theism

“Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!” This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was made to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.”

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