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To: tpanther
New discoveries continue to reveal the life-friendly properties of our universe, in which physical laws are seemingly fine-tuned to allow life to exist.

Or perhaps life adapted to existing conditions.

10 posted on 12/25/2008 7:28:51 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman
From the article:

physical laws are seemingly fine-tuned to allow life to exist.

Also from the article:

Stanford University visionary physicist Andrei Linde seemed adamant, however, that though this theory is not scientific, it must be true because it is logically necessary. When asked whether physicists will ever be able to prove the multiverse in the absence of any hope for physical confirmation, he told Discover, “Nothing else fits the data.”

What data? ...

12 posted on 12/25/2008 7:37:16 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Coyoteman

Do you think that the multi-universe theory is scientific?


18 posted on 12/25/2008 7:48:39 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Coyoteman
Or perhaps life adapted to existing conditions.

Adaptation of life-forms to conditions of the material universe can only explain a small fraction of the conditions necessary for life to exist. How about the simple fact that matter is able to hang together in such a way that there can be anything at all -- this is in itself a small miracle and requires a delicate balance of matter and anti-matter at the split millisecond the universe was born. That's just one of hundredes of examples of how completely improbable it is, not only that life exists, but intelligent life, formed within the relatively young universe in which we exist. The improbability is mind-boggling to anyone with even a modest appreciation for the scientific evidence, deductive logic, and probability theory.
21 posted on 12/25/2008 7:56:54 PM PST by bdeaner
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To: Coyoteman
Or perhaps life adapted to existing conditions.

I don't think there's any perhaps about that subject. It really tickles me with the little we now know or maybe with the little we will ever really know, how many people have decided it can only be this way or that way concerning God and science. Some people think way too much of themselves in their knowledge about both God and science. Hubris approaching the infinite IMHO.

24 posted on 12/25/2008 8:01:47 PM PST by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: Coyoteman
Or perhaps life adapted to existing conditions.

". . . imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for." -- Douglas Adams

45 posted on 12/25/2008 9:31:53 PM PST by ReignOfError
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