Just a quibble. Is it really fine tuned for life if life has only happened in one place in all this unimaginable vastness?
The problem with saying God did it is that God is unexplained, so you’re appealing to an unexplained designer. It doesn’t actually explain anything; it just shoves the problem off.
Maybe. But it also doesn't take anything away from the scientist's challenge which is to figure out the all-important "how" and then for the more technical minded to figure out the almost as important "and how can we use it, and what can we make with it".
Agreed. From what we've observed so far, life is extremely rare.
“Just a quibble. Is it really fine tuned for life if life has only happened in one place in all this unimaginable vastness?”
The parameters of the general model are extraordinarily finely tuned for life—and physicists who have played a substantial role in refining the general model concede that. Miniscule changes in any of the parameters make life impossible. Intelligent design follows pretty naturally from this observation. That’s not me speaking, it’s one of the formulators of the multiverse theory.
Hence, all the activity in the physics community on “multiverses.” It’s a way out of having to resort to Intelligent Design. Of course the problem is formulating a falsifiable hypothesis about multiverses.
Theoretical physicist Paul Davies takes a completely different tack in a new book titled "Cosmic Jackpot." He argues that the cosmos has made itself the way it is, stretching backward in time to the very beginning to focus in on “bio-friendliness.”
The universe is an immaculate conception?