“Fine-tuning” refers to various features of the universe that are necessary conditions for the existence of complex life, including the initial conditions and “brute facts” of the universe, the laws of nature or the numerical constants present in those laws, and local features of habitable planets. Read More ›
Even more mysterious than the fact that our location is so congenial to diverse measurement and discovery is that these same conditions appear to correlate with habitability. Read More ›
The elegant form and protective covering of the coiled nautilus, the interdependent parts of the vertebrate eye, and the interlocking bones, muscles, and feathers of a bird wing “give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” Read More ›
Almost everything about the basic structure of the universe — for example, the fundamental laws and parameters of physics and the initial distribution of matter and energy — is balanced on a razor’s edge for life to occur. Read More ›
