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To: Psycho_Bunny
That sentence is so inane I simply can’t read past it.

It's not inane. It's a vexing problem. If certain physical constants differed by even a percentage point from their measured values, planets never could have formed from the cosmic dust, much less you and me. This is not a problem for young-Earth creationists, but for everyone else it is a real conundrum. And I would say it's a bigger problem for strict atheists than for anyone else.

22 posted on 06/20/2009 10:59:55 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: ccmay
No, it's inane. It presumes to know the unknowable. The way to parse the idea, so as not to sound like some breathless know-it-all is to say "If things were different, life as we understand it couldn't exist" - which is, on the other hand, banal.

And no, it's not a problem, it's an "unknowable": unknowables are not necessarily "problems".

28 posted on 06/20/2009 11:50:06 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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