beervolcano
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| Quote (C.J.O'Brien @ April 21 2006,21:49) | I've honestly never minded Heddle that much. About the only thing he's got in common with most of his fellow-travellers is the smug tone of false-superiority.
He says he believes in "cosmoloogical ID" and all he really bases it on in argument is the supposedly "fine-tuned" very small but non-zero value of the cosmological constant. He typically backs away from criticizing evolution, and he's honest about his apologetics in so far as he doesn't confuse them with anything scientific. |
There are a lot of people who immediately clung to the strong anthropic principle once it was devised/realized/discovered.
And many cling to it immediately when they hear of it.
It is some sort of evidence to them of their faith.
It's like the stories they heard as a child have some sort of backup, and it came from the ivory tower of science, no less.
And it is of course very philosophical and not very scientific to just rename the strong anthropic principle as cosmological ID.
O well. People need their mental crutches sometimes.
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("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."--Jonathan Swift)
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