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The Fine-Tuned Universe island, Jan 04, 2009

The fallacy of arguing that because a physical constant has to be extremely precise to support life it is therefore extremely unlikely that the constant had a value that would support life.

Um, physicists don't say that it is extremely unlikely that the constant had a value that would support life because a physical constant
has to be extremely precise to support life.

Good grief.

They say that it is extremely unlikely that the constant had such an extremely precise value, because these values are totally unexpected by any natural model that we have ever been able to produce from first principles.

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512148

This idiotic debate has caused the relevant points to be lost in creative speculation that has absolutely nothing to do with the observation that they AREN'T even talking about.

What a bunch of dorks.

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