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"Would you not say to yourself, "Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule." Of course you would . . . A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question."

Fred Hoyle on the resonance of the carbon atom.

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I went to the link... very interesting. Will read more about Hoyle and cosmology.

The only relevant observation I have is a similar realization regarding biology and medicine... there are too many finely tuned systems which interact... it would be so unlikely that the machinery of a cell 'evolved' in the Brownian-motion-to-Darwin-survival model espoused by just about everyone in contemporary science, that I find the situation comical.

Keep thoughts like that to yourself, though, or you will find yourself out of work in most universities.