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   Lucifer Morningstar to All   
   Re: FINE TUNED UNIVERSE (Re: Why There i   
   15 Nov 16 15:12:57   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism   
   From: Barry@saymyname.com   
      
   On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:36:12 -0500, "R. Dean" <"R. Dean"@gmail.com>   
   wrote:   
      
   >On 13/11/2016 2:41 AM, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 02:40:53 -0500, "R. Dean" <"R. Dean"@gmail.com>   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 8/11/2016 11:45 PM, mur@. wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Try to explain WHAT type of evidence you think there should be, WHERE you   
   think   
   >>>> it should be, WHY you think it should be available to humans, and WHEN   
   you think   
   >>>> it should have been or should be made available, if there truly is a God   
   >>>> associated with this planet.   
   >>>>   
   >>> There is evidence available, how this evidence is interpreted   
   >>> depends upon prior considerations. But one certainty is the   
   >>> fact that the universe is _fine_tuned_ for our existence.   
   >>   
   >> Our existence is finely tuned for the universe.   
   >>   
   >I will acknowledge the distinct possibility that life was not the end   
   >game nor the purpose of the universe.   
   >But why is there a universe given the number of very precise parameter   
   >that 2 dozen constants have? On person can win the lottery one   
   >time, and someone does, but suppose the same player won the lottery   
   >2 dozen times - Would you say this is an accident, just good luck   
   >or what. That is exactly what happened with the the universe. It   
   >was just luck that the right values for the dozen of fundamental   
   >cosmological constants needed and somehow arrived at, which were exactly   
   >the values needed for there to be a universe.   
      
   I don't know the answer and neither do you.   
   However life evolved to suit the conditions.   
      
   --   
   I call shenanigans on all theistic religions   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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