[Heartlander]

What are the odds of all of this occurring as a cosmic accident?

Cosmic Constants

• Gravitational force constant
  
• Electromagnetic force constant
  
• Strong nuclear force constant
  
• Weak nuclear force constant
  
• Cosmological constant

Initial Conditions and “Brute Facts”

• Initial distribution of mass energy
  
• Ratio of masses for protons and electrons
  
• Velocity of light
  
• Mass excess of neutron over proton
• Principle of quantization
  
• Pauli Exclusion Principle

Solar System Conditions

• Near inner edge of circumstellar habitable zone
  
• Low-eccentricity orbit outside spin-orbit and giant planet resonances
  
• A few, large Jupiter-mass planetary neighbors in large circular orbits
  
• Outside spiral arm of galaxy
  
• Near co-rotation circle of galaxy, in circular orbit around galactic center
  
• Within the galactic habitable zone
  
• Human advancement occurs during the cosmic habitable age

“Local” Planetary Conditions

• Steady plate tectonics with right kind of geological interior
  
• Right amount of water in crust
  
• Sun is the right type star for life
  
• Large moon with right rotation period
  
• Stable atmosphere
  
• Proper concentration of sulfur
• Ability to create fire
  
• Right planetary mass
  
• Unique solar eclipse
  
• Cosmic shield
  
• Information rich biosphere

Human Life

• Origin of life hurdles
  
• DNA has; Functional Information - Encoder - Error Correction - Decoder
• DNA contains multi-layered information that reads both forward and backwards - DNA stores data more efficiently than anything we've created - and a majority of DNA contains metainformation
  
• Complex pieces of molecular machinery in the cell
• Human body
  
• The information enigma
  
• Morality
  
• Consciousness
  
• Free will
  
• Justice
  
• Perception
  
• Human language
  
• Recognizing art in nature
  

[Delta 21]

All coincidence and happenstance.

[Jamestown1630]

Yes.

But I don’t think it’s necessarily just Earth.

[I want the USA back]

We are not living in a computer simulation. A completely stupid idea.
And no, there are no other universes, and there is no multiverse. It’s easy to say scientific sounding names, but they have no substance behind them.

Other than that, the article is profoundly significant.

[Buttons12]

We’re here because we’re here.
It’s not the life but the consciousness that baffles me.

[Moonman62]

I admit that I’m a carbon chauvinist.

[Raycpa]

And He answered and said unto them, “I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”

[refreshed]

To answer the headline, yes. They have to be. There really is little room for variance in the conditions for life to exist. This level of genius of design reveals a Creator.

[PeterPrinciple]

Philosophy is the study of truth. Science was a subset of philosophy. Now science is divorced from philosophy and makes no sense............................

[jrestrepo]

Bing for later read

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The very structure of matter down to the smallest subatomic particle has the blueprint for life built into it or there would not be life.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

bookmark

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

No. But God’s Creation is precisely tuned to support life here on earth.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Life exists on Earth (assuming we’re not living in a computer simulation)."

I stopped reading right there. Anyone so out of touch with reality isn't worth further consideration.

[heterosupremacist]

**So what is consciousness?**

That question still has not been answered. Consciousness can be defined using scientific methods, but science has not yet determined from whence it came.

The thing that animates us is Divine, so it is useless to scientifically deconstruct this mystery...

[NTHockey]

How incredibly egotistical of humans to believe that the Universe was created just for our benefit.

This is the same species that believed the Earth was flat and that the Sun revolved around the Earth. This is the same species that is constantly unearthing fossils and fragments of past civilizations that change our understanding Earth’s (and our) history.

Quite frankly, we know very little.

[fruser1]

The purpose of the universe is to make lead (Pb).

[G-Bear]

The author has it exactly backwards.

The universe was not designed to allow life. The universe is what it is, and life formed to exist in it.

Or, as the goofy Doctor in “Jurassic Park” said, Life will find a way!”

This, of course, all depends on whether you takes your religion straight, or with soda......

[Ransomed]

It’s hard to say until we have more than one example of life. If we find 50 examples in different places and they all require the same parameters to exist, then it would go a long way. But for now all we have is an example of one. Which means any theory is going to have giant assumptions mixed in with the facts, including that life is either singular, rare, or plentiful because of how we perceive ourselves to be situated.

Freegards

[seawolf101]

[JimRed]

But stare into that darkness long enough, and many wonder instead: how did we get here?

There's a Book about that. It starts off "In the beginning..."