Bob Shell wrote:
Someone just pointed me to this, which is very apropos:
http://tinyurl.com/alrzj
This may have been a interesting intellectual exercise, but it is far from
*science*. It's pure conjecture. The author admits that it's speculation.
To present this as if it has meaning and value as science...
Unfortunately I think the public at large is too ready to belive it is
science, or to go along with the 'well it's the best we can do for now'
mindset, so it's accepted as science. Wait, let me go get some leeches, I
feel a fever coming on.
The universe appears to be tailor-made, precision-tuned for life to exist,
and the odds of that occuring are infinitesimally small, based on what is
believed to be known and yet...
the tailor, the tuner, must not be, cannot be a person.
"If we put to one side theological approaches to this ultimate issue, what
rational pathways forward are on offer from the scientific community? "
Tom C.
