Cosmos is fine-tuned to permit scientific discovery
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The conditions that enable life to exist also facilitate scientific discovery. For example, the moon exists with the right size and distance so that a perfect total solar eclipse is observable, and the total solar eclipse of 1919 was crucial in testing general relativity.
Source
- Gonzalez, G and J.W. Richards, 2004. The Privileged Planet. Regnery; see Branch, G., 2002, "Intelligent Design" Visits San Francisco, Reports of the National Center for Science Education 22(6): 7.)
Responses
- If the Cosmos is fine-tuned to permit life as well as to permit life-forms to make scientific discoveries, why does the Cosmos suggest that life so rare? If the Cosmos is fine-tuned for life, shouldn't it be teeming with life?
- Our sensory inputs build a model of our environment in a Euclidian space. A bit of a handicap to the aspiring cosmologist! This is just one counter example, but I'm sure there are more than enough others like it to dilute the proexamples until they are below statistical significance.
- The makers of this claim fail to realize that human civilizations, such as the Mayans and the British Celts, have known about and predicted total and partial solar and lunar eclipses for thousands of years.
Fallacies contained in this claim
External Links
- Mark Isaak's page for this claim [1]
- CreationWiki's comments [2]
