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face=Arial>From: Eli Turkel via Avodah
<avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR><BR><BR>>> I have a book "The
Goldilocks Enigma" by Paul Davies (cosmolgist) on why is<BR>the universe just
right for life. Most of the book is to show how unlikely<BR>it is that the
universe has exactly the right properties for existence.<BR>The second part is a
discussion as to why this happened. He goes through<BR>all the theories
including the watchmaker etc. One possibility is a<BR>"creator" . He admits that
it is logically consistent but finds it highly<BR>unlikely. His own preference
is for the multi-verse.<BR><BR>The idea is not whether you agree with him or
not. Rather here is an<BR>intelligent human who has thought deeply about these
problems and does not<BR>see any obvious signs of a designer.....
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<DIV>On the contrary, he sees many signs of a Designer and he is so
desperate to avoid the obvious conclusion -- because of his own prior
philosophical biases -- that he adopts the currently trendy and absurd idea of
"many universes" to escape from what he does not want to face. </DIV>
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<DIV>You see, if this is the only universe then it is so fantastically
improbable that it can only be a miracle. But if it is only one of many
universes, then it is not so strange that just one out of millions
of universes would happen to have the conditions necessary for life.</DIV>
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<DIV>Normally the definition of "science" includes things like capable of
observation or experiment, falsifiable, etc. But if you are desperate
enough to escape G-d (and His moral demands) you will take something as
airy-fairy, non-observable, not subject to any possible experiment,
non-falsifiable as a "multi-verse" -- a product of the human mind that is as
real as leprechauns -- and you will crown it with the noble name of
"science"!</DIV>
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<DIV>I have a wonderful book in my house called *The Privileged Planet* that
should be a science textbook in every yeshiva high school and Bais
Yakov. Please please read it. It's by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay
Richards.</DIV>
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<DIV>Here's the website with more information about the book and a video:</DIV>
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href="http://www.privilegedplanet.com/">http://www.privilegedplanet.com/</A></DIV>
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<DIV><B><BR><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby Katz<BR></FONT><FONT
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