Re: George Coyne and Richard Dawkins

Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote:

On 20/05/2024 17:16, Richmond wrote:

In this interview, at the point I link to:
 
https://youtu.be/68ejfHahFK4?t=254
 
Father Coyne offers Neodarwinian Evolution as an explanation for, among
other things, the origin of the universe. And Professor Dawkins agrees
with him. How does evolution of any kind have anything to do with the
origin of the universe? surely it would need something to evolve from?
 

 
It might be a reference to the following idea (which, IIUC, holds that
the universe is not fine tuned for life; it's fine tuned for black holes).
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection
 
I don't find the hypothesis compelling.
 

Coyne seemed quite a character when he was chatting it up with Bill Maher
on Religulous. I like how he lays out the gapping of the scriptural period
vs the scientific period:
https://youtu.be/xRnA4S8xrlY?si=ujAy_HGeSLdOUHML