Posted: Apr 07, 2011 7:59 pm
Alternatively, if we were intelligent gasbags floating in the atmosphere of Jupiter, we might be marvelling at the fact that Jupiter is at just the right distance from the Sun to permit the evolution of intelligent floating gasbags.
Or if the laws of physics were such that the only significant chunks of matter which could form were red dwarf stars, then either (a) there would be no intelligent life or (b) any intelligent life which did exist would be the kind of life that could only exist in or on a red dwarf star. Such life might be marvelling at the fact that its universe was finely tuned just to allow the evolution of red dwarf dwelling intelligences.
Again, either I'm completely missing something, or the fine tuning argument doesn't hold much water.
Or if the laws of physics were such that the only significant chunks of matter which could form were red dwarf stars, then either (a) there would be no intelligent life or (b) any intelligent life which did exist would be the kind of life that could only exist in or on a red dwarf star. Such life might be marvelling at the fact that its universe was finely tuned just to allow the evolution of red dwarf dwelling intelligences.
Again, either I'm completely missing something, or the fine tuning argument doesn't hold much water.