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Now so many things had to be just right in the universe for live to come into being and some people who study science and have faith like using these things as proof that it was no accident .
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: midnightstar
There are more fine-tuned values than just this.
The improbabilities just stretch and stretch, the more you know.
Of course the 'standard' response to this is to say that it has to be this way, or we wouldn't exist to observe it. But this is a non-answer - a 'no think' statement.
At some point, one must abandon the supposition that the universe we find ourselves in, just happened by accident.
A supernatural origin for the universe is not the un-evidenced proposition.
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: midnightstar
There are more fine-tuned values than just this.
The improbabilities just stretch and stretch, the more you know.
Of course the 'standard' response to this is to say that it has to be this way, or we wouldn't exist to observe it. But this is a non-answer - a 'no think' statement.
At some point, one must abandon the supposition that the universe we find ourselves in, just happened by accident.
A supernatural origin for the universe is not the un-evidenced proposition.
"At some point, one must abandon the supposition that the universe we find ourselves in, just happened by accident." this statement sounds like a supposition to me, keeping in mind that conviction is not certainty anymore than opinion is fact.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: midnightstar
There are more fine-tuned values than just this.
The improbabilities just stretch and stretch, the more you know.
Of course the 'standard' response to this is to say that it has to be this way, or we wouldn't exist to observe it. But this is a non-answer - a 'no think' statement.
At some point, one must abandon the supposition that the universe we find ourselves in, just happened by accident.
A supernatural origin for the universe is not the un-evidenced proposition.
"At some point, one must abandon the supposition that the universe we find ourselves in, just happened by accident." this statement sounds like a supposition to me, keeping in mind that conviction is not certainty anymore than opinion is fact.
Consider this:
In a simple system with few elements, the probability of random actions leading to a particular outcome is small:
Imagine two bricks in an enclosed space (a packing crate). Shaking the space randomises the scenario and one possible outcome is that the bricks will end up with one brick stacked upon another.
Increasing the volume of the space (say to a shipping container) decreases the probability that the bricks will end up one upon another.
Increasing the number of bricks to three also decreases the probability that all three will end up stacked upon each other.
So we can see that increasing the volume and increasing the elements vastly decreases the probability that a particular configuration (even one as simple as stacking) will be the result of randomisation.
Now expand that to apply to the size and content of the universe.
Of course, one may then suggest that there have been innumerable randomisations and that this raises the probability. Yet these randomising events take time. The physical movement of matter takes time. The birth and deaths of stars and the nucleosynthesis that occurs within them, takes time. The 'randomisation' events are far fewer when you consider that some of the most primary steps require stellar lifetimes.
The net result is that the observed universe could not have arisen by random factors in the time-frame of its existence. It is improbable to an enormous degree.
Any paradigm that depends upon actions so counter to reason, mathematics and physics is obviously false.