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    perfectly fine-tuned for life to exist in the universe. Fred Hoyle also argued for a fine-tuned universe in his 1983 book The Intelligent Universe. Hoyle...
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  • scientists recognized that fine-tuning arguments were a specific application of Bayesian statistics. Anthropic principle Fine-tuned universe Hierarchy problem...
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  • that of a divine creator (the apparent fine-tuning is actual and intentional), or that the universe is one universe of many in a multiverse (e.g. the many-worlds...
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  • Universe: Past and Present Reflections Robin Collins argues that the universe is fine-tuned for scientific discoverability, and that this fine-tuning...
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    multiverse, and the fine-structure constant was one of several universal constants that suggested the idea of a fine-tuned universe. For historical reasons...
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  • plausible explanation for the fine tuning of our universe: the "typical" universe is not fine-tuned, but given enough universes, a small fraction will be...
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  • the Universe Just Right for Life?, is a 2007 non-fiction book by physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies, describing the idea of a fine-tuned universe. In...
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  • why they have the specific value they do in what appears to be a "fine-tuned universe", while their being variable would mean that their known values are...
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  • 2004 Stenger 2011, p. 243 Susskind 2005 Stenger, Victor J. "Is The Universe Fine-Tuned For Us?" (PDF). Victor J. Stenger. Boulder, Colo.: University of...
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  • theory Experience machine Fine-tuned universe Holographic principle Hyperreality Margolus–Levitin theorem Mathematical universe hypothesis Matrix defense...
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  • Quantum gravity General relativity Quantum mechanics Lee Smolin Fine-tuned universe "Smolin vs. Susskind: The Anthropic Principle" Edge (August 18, 2004)...
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    describing a flat, homogeneous universe presently dominated by dark matter and dark energy. The fine-tuned universe hypothesis is the proposition that...
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    converge. Cosmic Jackpot Frugality Anthropic principle Big History Fine-tuned universe Golden mean (philosophy) Anna Karenina principle "The Story of Goldilocks...
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    and hence cannot be separated by divine power. Divine simplicity Fine-tuned universe Is-ought problem Just-world fallacy Summum bonum World to Come Leibniz...
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    the observation that some of the initial conditions of the universe appear to be fine-tuned to very 'special' values, and that small deviations from these...
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  • Neutrino oscillation Physical cosmology Standard Model Weinberg angle Fine-tuned universe Koide formula Stroke, H. H., ed., The Physical Review: The First...
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    fine-tuned for life, and that science and Christianity intersect rather than contradict each other. Ross believes that God has created the universe for...
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    gravity and the electric force for the electron and proton. (See also Fine-tuned universe). Wolfgang Pauli was also fascinated by the appearance of certain...
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  • overwhelmingly against the belief. He is also critical of fine-tuning and fine-tuned universe arguments, and says they misunderstand the more reasonable...
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    College London. In 2009, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology at the University of Aberdeen...
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  • the intelligent designer fine-tuned the universe's physical constants in such a way that life is the result of the universe's physical constants being...
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  • Evidence of common descent Evolutionary argument against naturalism Fine-tuned universe Irreducible complexity Specified complexity Transitional fossil (commonly...
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    forward by Robert Dicke in 1961. Known as the anthropic coincidence or fine-tuned universe, it simply states that the large numbers in LNH are a necessary coincidence...
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    have been made to have me in it!" to express his disbelief in the fine-tuned universe argument for God. He remained fascinated by religion because of its...
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  • change, motion, contingency, dependency, or finitude with respect to the universe or some totality of objects. A cosmological argument can also sometimes...
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    prevailing cosmological model, with the universe coming into being about 13.8 billion years ago; The fine-tuned universe; Evolution and natural selection; No...
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  • contingency metaphysical Degree Desire Experience Existential choice Fine-tuned universe Love Mathematics Miracles Morality Mystical idealism Natural law...
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    they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence?" The early Buddhist texts contain...
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  • model, or are these features simply statistically insignificant? Fine-tuned universe: The values of the fundamental physical constants are in a narrow...
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  • Reviews in Relativity. 13 (1): 3. arXiv:1002.4928. Bibcode:2010LRR....13....3D. doi:10.12942/lrr-2010-3. PMC 5255939. PMID 28179828. Fine-tuned universe...
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