This conversation is with Eric Hyland, physics major whom I met many years ago in Norwich Christian Fellowship. We have developed a life-long (no make that infinity-long) friendship and mutual respect.
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was just reading this article from Scientific American ...This paragraph that I've excerpted is very interesting from an Intelligent design point of view....
"Both of these are good scientific reasons to doubt that the Standard Model is the end of the story when it comes to the laws of physics. But there is another, aesthetic principle that has led many physicists to doubt its completeness – the principle of “naturalness”.
The Standard Model is regarded as a highly “unnatural” theory. Aside from having a large number of different particles and forces, many of which seem surplus to requirement, it is also very precariously balanced. If you change any of the 20+ numbers that have to be put into the theory even a little, you rapidly find yourself living in a universe without atoms. This spooky fine-tuning worries many physicists, leaving the universe looking as though it has been set up in just the right way for life to exist."
Here is the link to the full article:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-the-higgs-nobel-be-the-end-of-particle-physics
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Velly Interesting! Noted that the link stated “(roughly 10500)” when it should have stated “(roughly 10500).” Someone wasn’t proofreading. I know this not because I am brilliant, but because it was a number presented by one of my American Scientific Affiliation colleagues, Robert Mann, with whom I had a long discussion.
I have watched this pendulum swing back and forth for 55 years now. I am not convinced it has come to rest. What most scientists miss is what John Leslie pointed out in his 1989 book, “Universes,” that even multiverses could just be another step that God used to ensure that the right One of the myriad of possibilities would occur in such a way that He would not be the only explanation available, thus preserving the sanctity of free choice.
In any event, there is undeniable evidence coming from unbiased scientific inquiry, that the universe had a beginning and that beginning was accompanied by at least 20 fine-tuned constants, forces and masses. This fine tuning seems to have set the conditions for cosmological, chemical, and biological evolution to “find us” at least certainly (we are proof it did!) and possibly exclusively although we cannot rule out other possibilities that might be of equal significance to God. This forces science to concede the “three infinities” (slides 6 through 13) of the Eight Phenomena that Recur Often in Cosmological, Chemical, and Biological Evolution. Of course the third of these infinities has the boldness to admit that the “Uncaused Cause” is the cause of it all.
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