Russell Stannard - Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?
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- čas přidán 19. 08. 2019
- If the deep laws of the universe had been ever so slightly different human beings wouldn't, and couldn't, exist. All explanations of this exquisite fine-tuning, obvious and not-so-obvious, have problems or complexities. Natural or supernatural, that is the question.
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outstanding conversation and commentary by Russell..
I will grant that the question makes sense once we can determine all conditions under which life can exist. Until we know know that and what life actually is, people shouldn't be so concrete in their ignorant opinion.
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Spacetime is the symmetry of the system design which gave rise to life and there are no alternatives for it. Why it happened is a miracle, but still extremely logic.
If true, Darwin’s theory of evolution doesn’t explain our origins, it explains our diversity.
There is nothing to compare nature with. There is digestion (of nature) and decay (of nature). What lies outside of time? What is the main function of imagination?
I like this guy. 👍
Dr. Stannard is a scientist who also happens to be a Christian. He is no different from the billions of people, except that he is highly educated, who are convinced that a supernatural entity exists. What makes Dr. Stannard believe so only he knows. Yes, his notion of god is a violation of the philosophic principle of parsimony as he makes an unnecessary assumption with his belief in a god. I am not at all disturbed by his belief in a god "who started it all" but I do find his belief that it is the Christian god disturbing. Although he did not mention the Christian god in this short video, he is apparently a member of the Church of England. One positive thing about Dr. Stannard is that he appears to acknowledge the evolution of species by natural selection. The fact is that many people find the notion of a god comforting and they feel it properly answers the question of origins. However It is not the god hypothesis that is mischievous but self styled prophets and their followers who presume to know the mind of that god or gods.
When you invoke the "find tuning" argument, you're really asking whether God is subject to the laws of physics that runs our universe and was therefore compelled to create creatures in conformity with those laws, or, was it necessary for him to "tune" the universe to the needs of the only model of creature that he is capable of creating. Either way, the adherents to the fine tuning argument seem to acknowledge the limitations that are inherent within their God.
because at birth we are empty and we begin to fill up to the overflow that starts with "mom", "daddy", etc, etc ... we are full of the words of others and that is why we all say the same thing, we behave like echoes or reflections not of ourselves but of others
He is working backwards. It is so obvious.
it's not that everything is perfectly fitted for us to exist. We are perfectly fitted with the conditions on this planet... no mystery here!
So fine tuned that we can't survive on 80% of our planet and 99.999999999999% of the universe would kill us. Douglas Adams puddle analogy comes to mind.
"It's big (the cosmos), but it couldn't be any smaller. The sun has to be that big if its going to keep burning for 5 billion years, the right time to allow for life. Everything is just perfectly fitted to make our existence possible."
I really do not understand why people immediately draw a conclusion from "there is a creator/designer of the universe" to "and therefore my religion is true." Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
No one knows either way so whatever you believe is your belief be a good person be kind we will.all find out one day who is right
I don't find a problem with the idea of a creator. I do fail to understand why the creator must be God, if we must continue to modify him as we discover that while we are fascinating and complex, we are not special.
If the universe was fine tuned towards intelligent life then either: