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While some theists support the teleological argument on the basis that there are many 'constants' that must fall within a certain extremely narrow range in order for life to exist in the universe, perhaps this argument actually fails for the following reason:
Why suppose that The Big Bang Theory is like a deck of cards that could have been shuffled differently and turned out another way? Why not think that The Big Bang Theory is more like a gun that shot out the universe in the precise way that it did and there's no other way it could have happened?
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Pretty sure explosions are random processes.
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>>2614262
True randomness is not by ANY means widely agreed to exist. Determinism is a thing
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>>2614276
I guess that settles it then.
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>>2614226
Shuffled 10^123 times just to get the cosmological constant right?
And who's doing the shuffling?
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>>2614283
But who is to say that it's like a deck of cards? Why think that these constants could have been another way?
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>>2614292
Maybe you're just new to this.
The cosmological constant cannot vary more than 1 part in 10^123 or there would be no life in the universe.
For perspective, there are 10^80 atoms in the universe.
This would be 10^43 times more unlikely than if each atom were a "shuffle".
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>>2614226
What is the anthropic priciple
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>>2614302
But how do you know the other options are even possible?
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>>2614302
How do you know that life cannot exist in other universes, according to other rules?
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>>2614433
I don't think this objection works because some of the constants are like what allow there to be atoms at all
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