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The Fine Tuning Argument
Scientists have come to the shocking realization that the fundamental constants and quantities of the universe have been carefully dialed to astonishingly precise, life-permitting values. If any one of these numbers were altered by even a hair's breadth, no physical, interactive life of any kind could exist anywhere. So what is the best explanation for the fine-tuning of the universe? Did we just get really lucky? Does the universe have to be fine-tuned? Or is it fine-tuned because it was designed that way? The Fine Tuning Argument provides answers to these questions!
The requirements of a habitable planet
The Finely Tuned Parameters of the Earth include:
The Finely Tuned Parameters of the Earth include:
- - Earth has a nearly circular orbit (eccentricity ~ 0.02)
- - the Earth-Moon relationship
- - the Moon's nearly circular orbit (eccentricity ~ 0.05)
- - the just-right ozone layer
- - the Earth's spin rate
- - the atmospheric pressure
- - a sweeper planet to deflect comets, etc.
- - the phenomenally harmonious water cycle
- - the liquid water that exists because the Earth is the right distance from the Sun, etc.
- - photosynthesis dependence on quantum physics as reported in the journal PNAS
- - a solar system with a single massive Sun than can serve as a long-lived, stable source of energy
Fine Tuned Quotes:
British astrophysicist Paul Davies,
"There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all....It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe....The impression of design is overwhelming."
"There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all....It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe....The impression of design is overwhelming."
NASA astronomer John O'Keefe,
"We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted, cherished group of creatures.. .. If the Universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in."
"We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted, cherished group of creatures.. .. If the Universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in."
Nobel prize winner physicist Arno Penzias,
"Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say 'supernatural') plan." See these and many similar quotes sourced.
"Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say 'supernatural') plan." See these and many similar quotes sourced.