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To: Mr. K
My thoughts also. If the universe is "finely tuned for life", why are there no photos of Dejah Thoris hosting a picnic alongside the canal? Or of tharks in single combat to the death?

The universe of science fiction was finely tuned for life. Ours, rather less so.

24 posted on 11/27/2018 8:36:09 AM PST by John Locke
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To: John Locke
If the universe is "finely tuned for life"

The Universe IS finely tuned for life.

One tiny, tiny change in G, or hbar, or c or half a dozen other constants and we couldn't possibly exist. There'd be no carbon, or no protons, or nothing but radiation, or a universe that lasted only a few hundred years.

The Anthropic principle doesn't mean that the entire Universe is livable.

It means that the universal constants are such that life can exist. Somewhere.

34 posted on 11/27/2018 8:52:23 AM PST by agere_contra (Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
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