Harvard scientist claims mathematical formula could prove 'God is real'(economictimes.indiatimes.com) |
Harvard scientist claims mathematical formula could prove 'God is real'(economictimes.indiatimes.com) |
> At the heart of Dr. Soon's theory is the "fine-tuning argument" - the idea that the universe's physical laws are so perfectly calibrated to support life [...] The formula, first proposed by ... Paul Dirac, highlights how certain cosmic constants align with breathtaking precision
If anybody finds good references (which articles, books etc.)...
Neither is "god did it".
Amount of atheists or agnostics converted by this article: 0
> It could be that it is extremely difficult to start life. It might be that it is so difficult to start a life that it has happened only once among all the planets... Let us consider, just as a conjecture, that the chance of life starting when we have got suitable physical conditions is 10^-100. I don't have any logical reason for proposing this figure, I just want you to consider it as a possibility. Under those conditions ... it is almost certain that life would not have started. And I feel that under those conditions it will be necessary to assume the existence...
This from the Kragh (1990), Dirac: A Scientific Biography. When the Archive will make books in the Library available again, it's there; otherwise, the paragraph is copied on Wikipedia.
Doesn't sounds like much of an argument to me.
What it does sound like is someone who has already accepted a conclusion and is grasping for some way, any way to justify it.
"Hypoteses non fingo" ( ~~ Isaac Newton)
...especially true of lacking, non-analytical speech.