On Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 7:30:15 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 7:44 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote: > > *Journal of Theoretical Biology* >> *Volume 501, 21 September 2020* >> *Using statistical methods to model the fine-tuning of molecular machines >> and systems* >> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519320302071 >> > >> * A science journal publishes an article supporting Intelligent Design.* > > > I don't see how. If the universe really is fine-tuned (a very big if) then > an explanation for that fine-tuning needs to be found, but the God > Hypothesis is a very poor explanation for two reasons. > > 1) It does not say or even give a hint as to how God created the universe. > 2) It does not say or even give a hint as to how God came into existence > other than to say He has always existed, but if you're going to do that > you might as well just say the universe always existed and save a step. > > It seems to me that when a mystery is found, and Science has plenty, a > good honest "I don't know" would be a better response to it than offering a > theory that is obviously silly. > > John K Clark >
The issue is whether fine tuning means a fine tuner. A fine tuner is a necessary condition, but probably not sufficient. In the multiverse setting there may be a vast array of cosmologies and one could argue that just as Earth is one of many planets with the right conditions for life, this cosmology is in a Goldilocks situation. It is also possible I think that many of these other cosmologies are off-shell conditions in a cosmological path integral. Cosmologies with larger vacuum energy densities may not be physically real, but quantum amplitudes off-shell from a physical cosmology. This may reduce the number of actual physical cosmologies, and that could mean just one. In this second situation there is some condition in the structure of quantum cosmology that selects exclusively for this cosmology. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/dbecd8dc-d000-4093-a96d-92f2b737ce55n%40googlegroups.com.
