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When considering the question of whether the anthropic coincidences might not be something more than brute fluke I recall Einstein's similar thoughts regarding the identity of gravitational and inertial mass. Wondering if this identity might not be something deeper than mere accident led him on to the theory of general relativity.
A more interesting take on the extravagant unlikeliness of the "anthropic" constants fortuitously having just the right values for the formation of stuff sufficiently stable to form our universe (with or without life) is to interpret them as indirect evidence of the existence of a multiverse!
Spinoza and Einstein might perhaps have construed an infinity of universes to be as good a concept of God as any.
Why "The Universe Is Perfectly Fine-Tuned For Life" Is a Terrible Argument for God
This piece was originally published on AlterNet. "But the Universe is so perfectly fine-tuned for life. What are the chances that this happened by accident? Doesn't it seem like the Universe had to have been created this way on purpose?" As I've written before: Many arguments for religion and a...
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