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Re: The Fine Tuning Problem

The Fine Tuning argument seems to me (in my ignorance of both science and theology) to be a symptom of nothing more than Vanity and Narcissim (the two are not the same).

'I think, therefore I am... important'.

I don't beleive the Universe, or anything in it, is 'fine-tuned' in any way. If we never existed, one could argue that the Universe was finetuned to specifically avoid the evolution towards a sentient, dominant species that would, in time, wreck the planet...it just doesn't work, for me.

 The Universe is what it is, regardless of the meaning we impose upon it - and it will continue to be what it is - with or without our presence or opinion.

 We create our own meaning, our own identity, along with our sense of our own importance. Very few people are comfortable with accepting that they are irrelevant, impotent and finite; we WANT to matter... but we only really matter to ourselves; we only really have relevance in relation to each other.

The human mind is fragile, and doesn't easily cope with extended solitude - which implies meaningless; this is why soltiude is employed as punishment..

I ask the old, old, old question: "Is the fact that we can wear spectacles an example of fine-tuning - for, if the ears, eyes and nose were not where they are, we would not be able to wear glasses."

We adapt our cognitive 'technology' to give comfortable answers, as much we adapt to our physical world.: Evolution.

Will that do?


Re: The Fine Tuning Problem


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