Hobbes' Choice wrote:seeds wrote:
...which, by sheer chance, just so happens to be the
“perfect setting and platform” upon which the essence of life could then “effloresce” from the very fabric of the setting itself.
In a universe with a billion galaxies, all having a billion stars, Goldilocks is going to get lucky somewhere.
I guess I didn’t realize that I was asking for volunteers when I stated the following:
“...The mind boggling thought that someone could believe that the unthinkably complex array of ingredients and processes implicit in the image above, along with its impossible stability could have simply “created itself” without the slightest hint of guidance or teleological impetus, is utterly ridiculous...”
Are you the “someone” I was alluding to?
I can find little agreement on the estimations of how many stars there are in the universe. Some say 10^24, which is vastly more than the number you offered. However, for simple visualization purposes, I usually stick with an old estimate of a hundred billion galaxies with each containing a hundred billion stars.
The “Goldilocks” argument you are using is just an infant version of the fully-grown nonsense that materialists use when they suggest the existence of a
“Multiverse” to explain why our universe is the way it is.
In other words, if a near infinite number of universes exist, then the “odds” are that at least
one of the perhaps 10^500 of them is going to be “lucky” enough to possess the right conditions to give rise to us.
In my opinion, it’s bad enough to think that a hundred billion – times – a hundred billion fusion dynamos (suns) are just uselessly frittering away their energy in just this one universe alone.
However, the thought that an infinite number of universes themselves are simply frittering away their contents, is beyond all stretches of logic or believability.
Which raises the question, that if it requires an unthinkably specific and precise alignment of finely-tuned physiological parameters in order for suns and planets to even form (i.e., the “lucky” reason for our existence), then in what form do the other 10^500 universes exist in?
In other words, in what way are they “universes” if they do not consist of suns and planets similar to this one?
This all just goes to demonstrate that when it comes to determining how the order of the universe came to be, that some humans are willing to accept absolutely anything -
no matter how absurd or implausible - just as long as it does not involve the possibility that the universe could be the product of a higher intelligence.
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