At 09:59 AM 9/11/99 -0700, Pim van Meurs wrote:
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>Here is a BBC article from a month ago, which mentions the detection of a
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>SJ: "Astronomers believe that in the past our own galaxy may have had an
>active black hole at its core. Although it is still there, it is not now
being
>fuelled by a giant accretion disk. Lucky for us. If it was, then the high-
>energy radiation from it might make life very difficult indeed."
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>SJ : This yet more evidence for the fine-tuning design argument in respect
of life
>on Earth and against the SETI assumption that life in the universe is
>common.
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>So you have established that life started on earth because the conditions
were right. Now what evidence is there that the conditions were made to be
right for life to start on earth? The 'fine tuning' design argument, like
so many design arguments is severely lacking in any supporting data.
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