William wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:47 pm otseng wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:15 am [Replying to William in post #1422] The most logical answer is no aliens exist, not that they are hiding from us. Can you break that down for us? Let’s start with what is the Fermi paradox. The Fermi paradox …
The earth is truly unique. Not only do we see design in the fundamental laws of physics, there is also design exhibited for life to exist on our planet. As we learn what is required for life to exist on any planet, we find our earth is special. In planetary astronomy and astrobiology, the Rare …
Pale Blue Dot is a famous photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day’s Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. In the photograph, Earth’s apparent size …
To account for fine-tuning, scientists have broached their own principle of naturalism and invoked the extranatural explanation of the multiverse. “We cannot explain all the features of our universe if there’s only one of them,” says science journalist Tom Siegfried, whose book The Number of the Heavens investigates how conceptions of the multiverse have evolved …
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Another example of fine-tuning is the Penrose number: According to Penrose, universes “resembling the one in which we live” populate only one part in 10^10^123 of the available phase space volume. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fine-tuning/ More quotes on the fine-tuning in the universe: Physicist Paul Davies has said, “There is now broad agreement among physicists and cosmologists that …
The fine-structure constant is another example of fine-tuning and design: In physics, the fine-structure constant, also known as Sommerfeld’s constant, commonly denoted by α (the Greek letter alpha), is a fundamental physical constant which quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles. The definition of α in terms of other fundamental physical …
More on design found in the universe… Today, our deepest understanding of the laws of nature is summarized in a set of equations. Using these equations, we can make very precise calculations of the most elementary physical phenomena, calculations that are confirmed by experimental evidence. But to make these predictions, we have to plug in …
William wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 2:11 pm “What was it designed for?” “What is the nature of the designer{s}” Yes, studying nature only provides a general revelation of God and does not lead to any specifics about God. In theology, general revelation, or natural revelation, refers to knowledge about God and spiritual matters, discovered …
As for evidence supporting design in the universe, I mentioned in post 1358 about the “flatness problem”: otseng wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 6:39 am As for the universe being Euclidean, this is the flatness problem. In the case of the flatness problem, the parameter which appears fine-tuned is the density of matter and energy …
Diagoras wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:54 pm otseng wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 7:20 am This is the telltale sign that something is ad hoc – something is proposed that does not flow from the model and is created purely to address problems in the model. Others would say, “refine the original model based …