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- Title:
The Privileged Planet, Earths Origin, Accident or Design
- Description: A Scientific Documentary on the Planet Earth, The Origin and
Specific Placement. For centuries scientists and philosophers have
marveled at an eerie coincidence. Mathematics, a creation of human
reason, can predict the nature of the universe, a fact physicist
Eugene Wigner referred to as the unreasonable effectiveness of
mathematics in the physical sciences. In the last three decades
astronomers and cosmologists have noticed another, seemingly
unrelated, mystery. Contrary to all expectations, the laws of
physics seem precisely fine-tuned for the existence of complex life.
Could these two wonders actually be isolated pieces of a wider
pattern? Both are prerequisites for science, yet what about the
process of scientific discovery itself? What are its necessary
conditions? Why is it even possible? Read any book on the history of
science, and youll learn about magnificent tales of human ingenuity,
persistence, and dumb luck. But thats only part of the story, and
not even the most important part. Our location is much more critical
to science than it is to real estate. For some reason our Earthly
location is extraordinarily well suited to allow us to peer into the
heavens and discover its secrets. Elsewhere, you might learn that
Earth and its local environment provide a delicate, and probably
exceedingly rare, cradle for complex life. But theres another, even
more startling, fact, described in The Privileged Planet those same
rare conditions that produce a habitable planet-that allow for the
existence of complex observers like ourselves-also provide the best
overall place for observing. What does this mean? At the least, it
turns our view of the universe inside out. The universe is not
pointless (Steven Weinberg), Earth merely a lonely speck in the
great enveloping cosmic dark, (Carl Sagan) and human existence just
a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents (Steven
Weinberg). On the contrary, the evidence we can uncover from our
Earthly home points to a universe that is designed for life, and
designed for discovery.
- Tags: Astronomy Earth God Bible Evolution Science Darwin ID Intelligent
Design
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