Re: Bicyclist decapitated

On 4/29/2024 11:27 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 4/29/2024 11:41 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 4/28/2024 11:40 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

... However, there are plenty of other things in our environment
and in the cosmos that have very low probabilities.  For example, the
numerical values of the physical constants control so many things that
are responsible for making our universe and ourselves that suggest
intelligent design rather than random chance is what sets their
values:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant>
Change any of these even slightly and our universe will fall apart.

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AKA the "fine Tuning" argument - generally used as a justification for "Intelligent Design" arguments

 Yes, one of the justifications. Those opposed have sometimes proposed instead that there were an infinite (?) number of universes that spontaneously sprung into being, and that those whose constants didn't jibe self-destroyed, or perhaps spawned other attempts at universes, until the one (?) we enjoy managed to succeed. Survival of the fittest on a greater than universal scale.
 To me, that sounds no less hypothetical, no less lacking in evidence than an extra-universe being who willed it into existence.
 IOW, choose your myth. Maybe it will be true, maybe not.
 

Which returns the topic to extraterrestrial life.
Such exists or does not, regardless of our knowledge or of our opinions.
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