On 4/25/2011 16:25, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Mind, it only implies carbon based life due to lack of evidence "here" that
> you could have anything else

Well, the "fine tuned" argument says that if you go a little bit one way, 
you don't get any atoms, and if you go a little bit another way, everything 
collapses into a black hole before there's time for nuclear fusion to start, 
or some such.

So, not so much "carbon based life" as "atomic matter, elements, molecules, 
etc."  Maybe if you want to make life out of free quarks interacting with 
gravity waves or something...

In any case, I'm trying not to spoil Calculating God, which has some fun 
stuff in it. I highly recommend it to anyone who ever wondered "I wonder if 
there *might* be evidence of God out there."

P.S., I don't think we've found any such evidence yet, so any example I give 
would have to be taken with a grain of salt as simply a "imagine if this 
really was evidence..."

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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