What seems so 'designed' about our universe?

Question

Everyone's always talking about how perfect the universe is; it's 'just right' for us to live here...Sorry, but I don't see it:

My eyes will no longer function properly if I look at the sun.

The sun will give you skin cancer, just for being in it too long.

Oh what is it, 20% of the Earth's surface is actually solid ground? And we can't even live on the majority of land.

Isn't the Andromeda Galaxy on a collision course with ours?

Just curious, what are these 'perfectly designed' aspects of our universe? *BeADickAndGetAReport* Kthxbye.

Answer 1

My eyes will no longer function properly if I look at the sun. You also will find your body fighting like crazy NOT to look at it. If sun intensity was less plants couldn't photosynthesize

The sun will give you skin cancer, just for being in it too long.

Oh what is it, 20% of the Earth's surface is actually solid ground? And we can't even live on the majority of land. It takes that much water for life to exist.

Isn't the Andromeda Galaxy on a collision course with ours? It is SO far away you don't have to worry about it.



There are some wonderful things about Creation.

First there is the ratio of gravitational to electrical force. If that ratio were much different, there wouldn’t be planets and stars that were the right size to have evolved on the same kind of timescale to produce a favorable environment for life.

There’s the strength of the dark energy that is accelerating the universe. It was only discovered in 1998 that the universe is actually accelerating. Now if that dark energy, whatever it is, were twice as strong or ten times as strong as it is, the universe would be blowing apart, and, again, we wouldn’t have the conditions necessary for life.

Then we have the strength of nuclear force. If the nuclear force were maybe 10 percent stronger than what it is, all of the hydrogen at the beginning of the universe would have been used up in the heavy elements and you wouldn’t have the basic ingredients of stars anymore. If the nuclear force were much weaker, you wouldn’t have thermonuclear reactions in stars because you wouldn’t be able to have the chain that powers hydrogen into helium, which is what powers stars; therefore, we wouldn’t have planets, and we wouldn’t have life.

Life is composed of carbon primarily. Carbon is manufactured in the cores of very hot stars and what you end up with is a reaction that leads to helium, and then a reaction that leads to beryllium formation, and helium plus beryllium combine to form carbon and stars. Beryllium is quite unstable; it doesn’t last very long, so the helium plus beryllium reaction has to take place very quickly if you are going to get carbon. Well it turns out the carbon forms very nicely because there is an energy resonance that lets that reaction take place very fast before the beryllium decays again.

Scientific theories include the concepts of multi-verses where other physical realities exist in other dimensions or in infinite series of universes.

Quantum entanglement: They send the two particles, called an entangled pair, off in opposite directions until they are far apart from each other. The scientists then measure the spin of one of the particles, fixing its value. Instantaneously, the spin of the other particle becomes known and fixed. It is no longer a fuzzy probability but must be the opposite of the other particle, so that their spins will add to zero. It is as though the first particle communicated with the second. This apparent instantaneous passing of information from one particle to the other would violate the rule that nothing, not even information, can travel faster than the speed of light. The two particles do not, however, communicate with each other

Answer 2

Well I will not use the term "perfectly designed" but there seems to be order present in our universe. The fact that you can study the sun and the various harmful effect of light beyond our visible spectrum. How you can use various tools and calculations to project the trajectory of the Andromeda galaxy. There is order in the universe in that there are constants or laws. Science simply calls this nature.

Some assume that nature has always been. Theists believe that nature was created by a supernatural entity.

I also readily admit that there is chaos in our cosmos as well.

Answer 3

Simple. We (us human beings) intelligently design things. So we look around at the world we live in and naturally think, "well, then, WHO designed all this?" Problem is that there is no designer we have ever beheld or come in contact with so the question is incorrect. Perhaps we would be wiser to say, "WHAT" designed all this. And the answer of course is Evolution thru Natural Selection. Thank You.

Answer 4

They mistake the anthropic principle for the argument from design. We exist in a tiny pocket of order, this is why we can ponder these matters.

Answer 5

Because there are things in nature that give the illusion of intelligent design upon first glance. Further probing will show you otherwise but most people aren't interested in digging deeper than what is necessary to validate their beliefs.

Answer 6

I don't know about "perfect", but I would classify things as very interesting if everything was random.

One thing I would say is interesting is the golden ratio(phi). It is not perfect either, but it is very interesting.

Answer 7

Why dont you push your intellegence a little further and say that why arent we Angels created of light instead of human being !?

Answer 8

i basically agree with you, but to the extent that it does serve our purposes, I think the antropic principle serves quite well.

Answer 9

look at math, its everywhere, in everything and it always ad's up. nothing random could create an item of mathematics and have it work everywhere.