When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The James Webb Space Telescope's view of the iconic Pillars of Creation, famous features within ...

For decades physicists have been perplexed about why our cosmos appears to have been precisely tuned to foster intelligent life. It is widely thought that if the values of certain physical parameters, ...

Cosmologist Fred Hoyle, a contemporary of Father George Lemaître — the Catholic priest who discovered and identified the Big Bang — was an atheist until his studies of the universe made him realize ...

I like the one where believers feel God plants fake evidence (like some bad cop!)..just to test our faith. Click to expand... Terry Pratchett's Strata sort of touched on this idea by his protagonists ...

Science, once seen as the enemy of spirituality, is now making common cause with it in one area, in a search for meaning and purpose. It seems absurd to think of humans influencing distant stars, but ...

In The Fallacy of Fine-tuning, Victor Stenger dismantles arguments that the laws of physics in our universe were “”fine-tuned” to foster life IF THE force of gravity were a few per cent weaker, it ...

A fundamental concept is coming back to the fore – that the universe may be fine-tuned for life. The idea is that physical laws and constants are inexplicably just right to support it; any different ...

Am I missing something, or is the summary a little confusing? The anthropic principle is an argument against fine tuning. Other potential universes that are inhospitable could have been equally ...

The anthropic principle is the idea that the physical laws that govern our Universe are precisely those that allow complex life like ours to emerge. Many scientists have wondered at the balance of ...