Fine Tuning.
Evidence indicates that the Universal constants were changing in our own universe until about 6 billion years ago. See the Scientific American June, 2005 issue pages 56 to 63.
As indicated in a former chapter The multi-Universe evidence allows for variation of constants from one universe to another, allowing some to result in life similar to ours. Much of this chapter was covered in Chapter 4.
Comment:
(1) If an external God really exists and this God created the universe, this God must be a very complex being which would make God’s existence more amazing than the universe. This would make the probability of God existing less than the universe. A super-God even more complex and even less likely to exist.
(2) An eternal, infinite multi-universe is a natural extrapolation of our knowledge of our one universe.
Page 132, 138: Martin Rees’s book “The Rare Earth” is worth reading. His conclusion is that there are likely many places in our Universe where life as high as microbial would evolve, but the evolution of intelligent life, equivalent to that of humans, is likely very rare in our universe.
Page 144: Talk about Linde’s theory — I don’t understand what Mr. Collins is saying here.
Page 149: Mr. Collins — “The mission of Physics to explain everything naturalistically can only go so far.” Not so. There is no conspiracy of scientists. The supernatural evidence is just not there, after 150 years or so of trying to find it.
Page 149: Mr. Collins quotes the Bible on this page and others mention the Bible as a source of evidence in the other chapters. Is this a reliable source of information? Archeological evidence shows that most of the Old Testament stories, including the migration in and out of Egypt of the Israelites, could never have occurred: See the book “The Bible Unearthed, Archeology’s new vision of Ancient Israel and the Origins of its Sacred Texts” by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman.
Victo Stenger was Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii
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