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To: RadioAstronomer; longshadow; PatrickHenry
Ping!
19 posted on 10/30/2002 9:04:31 AM PST by Aracelis
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In 1974, Dr. Brandon Carter, a theoretical physicist then at Cambridge, now at the Paris Observatory in Meudon, pointed out that these coincidences were not just luck, but were rather necessary preconditions for us to be looking at the universe. After all, we are hardly likely to discover laws that are incompatible with our own existence.
That's pretty much how I see it. If our existence were somehow demonstrated to be inconsistent with the universe, then that would be evidence of a miracle. Consistency seems natural, not miraculous. You can't have it both ways.
41 posted on 10/30/2002 10:38:51 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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