--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just heard Paul Davies, the author of the op-ed > piece, interviewed on NPR the other day. He's a > philosopher-scientist with some very subtle reasoning > skills. I'm planning to pick-up his book: The Cosmic > Jackpot: (subtitle here).
Subtitle: "Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life." Which may be a little misleading, since it seems that the whole point of the book is that we can't *tell* why. One reader review quotes the last paragraph of the book: "So, how come existence? At the end of the day, all the approaches I have discussed are likely to prove unsatisfactory. In fact, in reviewing them they all seem to me to be either ridiculous or hopelessly inadequate: a unique universe that just happens to permit life by a fluke; a stupendous number of alternative parallel universes that exist for no reason; a preexisting God who is somehow self-explanatory; or a self-creating, self-explaining, self- understanding universe-with observers, entailing backward causation and teleology. Perhaps we have reached a fundamental impasse dictated by the limitations of the human intellect." Amazon page: http://tinyurl.com/yuz3e3
