{"id":144286,"date":"2022-08-16T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T00:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/has-a-superintellect-monkeyed-with-our-universes-physics"},"modified":"2022-08-16T19:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T00:23:35","slug":"has-a-superintellect-monkeyed-with-our-universes-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/has-a-superintellect-monkeyed-with-our-universes-physics","title":{"rendered":"Has a Superintellect Monkeyed With Our Universe\u2019s Physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUiDwrM2YPI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this second portion of a talk at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith (2021), philosopher Steve Meyer discusses the ways in which groundbreaking astronomer Fred Hoyle (1915\u20132001) dealt with the fact that the universe seems fine-tuned for life. Hoyle\u2019s widely cited comment on the subject was \u201cA commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature.\u201d That was an unsettling idea for Hoyle, who was a well-known atheist, and he certainly sought ways around it. How did he fare?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this second portion of a talk at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith (2021), philosopher Steve Meyer discusses the ways in which groundbreaking astronomer Fred Hoyle (1915\u20132001) dealt with the fact that the universe seems fine-tuned for life. Hoyle\u2019s widely cited comment on the subject was \u201cA commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}