On Dec 7, 2007 3:51 PM, John Walley <john_walley@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Pim,
>
> You have to keep up. I am not going to spell it all out for you again.
>
> Bottom line, neither ID nor forensic carpet fiber evidence is 100%
> conclusive in the scientific sense because both us and the carpet fiber
> could have been planted by aliens, but we deduce Wayne Williams guilt from
> one but deny GG his tenure for making the same rational deductions from
> the
> other.
>
> The obvious implications of the anthropic principle is that all these
> coincidences proves that there is a Designer. There is no getting around
> that. That is not unscientific. It is just rational.
I'm afraid it doesn't "prove" there is a Designer. An alternative
explanation that cosmologists are appealing to is the Multiverse. Billions
of barren universes, and ours just happened to get the winning lottery
ticket. For reasons I've explained in other threads, I don't find the
appeal to Multiverse any more convincing, or indeed scientific than the
appeal to a Designer. The anthropic principle no more proves the multiverse
than it proves the designer.
Iain
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