Tag: cosmic fine-tuning
NASA’s Parker Probe Kisses the Sun — And Rightly So
It’s thanks only to the fine-tuning of the laws and constants of nature that we live in a universe awash in radiation from this tiny swath of the electromagnetic spectrum — the life-permitting swath.
Denton Turns Sagan’s “Humdrum Star” on Its Head
“Flooded with the light of life”: What a beautiful way of putting it. This creates a double dilemma for materialists.
Cosmic Fine-Tuning Would Be Hard to Believe if It Weren’t True
The dual wave and particulate aspects of light, essential to our ability to see, and so much else, must all be just right to within insanely precise parameters.
Was Universe Designed for Hairy-Nosed Wombats?
David Barash is an evolutionary biologist known for delivering a yearly talk to his students disabusing them of the idea that science can be reconciled with religious faith.
Alien Octopodes and the Multiverse
It’s ABD — “Anything But Design,” as Sarah Chaffee says — that is, anything but design that might leave open the door to a source of transcendent intelligence.