[ExI] Fwd: A science-religious experience

[efc at disroot.org]

>       > I was not here claiming that there is. Only that we have empirical evidence
>       > against A.
>       >
>       > Do you disagree with this?
>
>       I don't know. What is the evidence? It could very well be that you already
>       provided it and I lost in the the reply somewhere. If so I apologize. If not,
>       give me a link and I'll have a look.
> 
> The evidence is the improbability of the constants being in the right range
> for life to exist. For example, the cosmological constant is predicted to be
> uniformly distributed in the range [-1, 1] but happens to be tuned to 120
> decimal places to be in the narrow range (just slightly above zero) and had it
> been ever so slightly different, there would be no complex structures in the
> universe. We could use the fine-tuning of this constant to rule out (to a
> confidence of approximately 1 - (10^-120)) theory "A" -- the theory that it
> was just blind luck that got us here with a single universe that was not
> designed. If we rule this out, then we are left with B or C.  

I see no empirical evidence here, and there could be numerous reasons for things
being as they are, reasons we might currently not even be aware of, nor might we
never be.

I also see no way of falsifying or testing. But we have been down this path
before, so I think, perhaps we'd better close this thread. =)

Best regards, 
Daniel