Last week, in
Nice, France, I was privileged to participate, along with 30 scholars, mostly
scientists and mathematicians, in a conference on the question of whether the
universe was designed, or at least fine-tuned, to make life, especially
intelligent life. Participants -- from Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Berkeley and
Columbia among other American and European universities -- included believers
in God, agonistics and atheists.
But it was clear
that the scientific consensus was that, at the very least, the universe is
exquisitely fine-tuned to allow for the possibility of life. It appears that we
live in a "Goldilocks Universe," in which both the arrangement of
matter at the cosmic beginning and the values of various physical parameters --
such as the speed of light, the strength of gravitational attraction and the
expansion rate of the universe - are just right. And unless one is frightened
of the term, it also appears the universe is designed for biogenesis and human
life....To Read More....
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