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Fine tuning

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Denyse O'Leary
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March 28, 2020
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Design inference, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Looking back at a 2017 paper that risks saying that ID is “not necessarily stupid”

Denyse O'Leary
March 28, 2020
Design inference, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
One would feel vaguely sorry for Raymond Bergner if he found himself dealing with a horde of Darwin trolls. But it is so much easier to sympathize with people who are prepared to acknowledge facts more forthrightly and honestly. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 28, 2020
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Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon on why string theory’s inflationary cosmos is a degenerate research program

Denyse O'Leary
March 28, 2020
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
Sheldon: The inflationary proposal has always been ad hoc. That is, a huge, faster-than-light expansion of the universe was proposed as a solution to the "flatness" problem, where the universe expands at a rate just sufficient to counter the gravitational attraction, where "just sufficient" means one part in 10^60 power. The inflationary model was invented to solve this fine-tuning problem. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 1, 2020
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Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
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A new piece of information in the question of why matter exists at all in the universe

Denyse O'Leary
March 1, 2020
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
Researchers: " ...the neutron has a significantly smaller EDM (electrical dipole moment) than predicted by various theories about why matter remains in the universe" The new find doesn’t answer the question but it enables theories to be winnowed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 21, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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At New Scientist: Our puny human brains can’t imagine alien life

Denyse O'Leary
December 21, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Not true! We humans more or less invented the whole idea of aliens. Without us, they probably wouldn’t exist even as a story. Just think: There would be no market for ET tales, films, and trade goods except for us humans. Don’t believe me? Try to get clams or termites interested in ET and see what happens… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 8, 2019
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Sabine Hossenfelder on why the Anthropic Principle is controversial

Denyse O'Leary
December 8, 2019
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
It’s controversial because it is sometimes used to support the idea of a multiverse. Otherwise, it should be common sense to assume that a venue in which we exist must feature conditions that allow for that. But the multiverse does not need logic, evidence, or science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 29, 2019
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Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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So then maybe we ARE privileged observers

Denyse O'Leary
November 29, 2019
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Researcher: "Our analysis is data-driven but supports the theoretical proposal due to Christos Tsagas (University of Thessaloniki) that acceleration may be inferred when we are not Copernican observers, as is usually assumed, but are embedded in a local bulk flow shared by nearby galaxies, as is, indeed, observed. This is unexpected in the standard cosmological model, and the reason for such a flow remains unexplained. Read More ›