I often hear the argument that the universe is too “ordered” or too “perfect” for it’s creation to have been an “accidental” or a “random” event.  This argument makes absolutely no sense to me.

First of all.  Our concept of “order” comes from observing reality.  What would a “disorderly” universe look like?  Perhaps it would a universe where asteroids impact astral bodies hundreds of times per hour, forever and ever and ever, or maybe it would be a universe where 99.9% of the astral bodies formed by its creation would kill any and all carbon-based lifeforms instantly.  Or maybe it would be a universe with voids all over it that consist of absolute nothingness, or infinitely dense holes in the fabric of space that absorb anything they can reach.  Or maybe it would be a universe where entire moons are composed of rivers of methane flowing over frozen water.  Maybe it would be a universe where most planetary orbits are unstable, or where less than 3% of gaseous bodies in space form a star.  Or maybe it would a universe where many galaxies come dangerously close to a supernova, or where our own galaxy is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy.  Or a disorderly universe might be one that expands for trillions upon trillions of years until the temperature of the universe is so low that it cannot sustain life or motion at all.

Too bad all of the above mentioned phenomena are part of the universe we live in.  To call this universe, and Earth, and humans “too perfect” to have been an accident, is just a ridiculously egotistical claim.  This universe is obviously not designed for human life, nor was Earth specifically designed to host human life, It would be more accurate to say that the Earth’s conditions gave way to the evolution of species, and one of those species happened to be humans.  Even our survival has been threatened in the past by nature, and still to this day, Earth is not a friendly environment, what with the tsunamis that kill 200 thousand people, earth quakes that destroy entire ecosystems, and volcanic eruptions that wipe out entire cultures.  Also consider that it took 3.5 billion years before multi-cellular life appeared on the planet, and that humans aren’t adapted for 2/3 of the Earth surface.  Also the Ratio of extinct life to surviving life, it’s 99:1, that is, 99% of known species that have occupied the Earth, are now extinct.  What life there is today, is but 1% of life that could have been.

A “disorderly” universe cannot exist.  The intelligent life of any universe would derive from their observations, an order (not, the order) that lets them inquire about it.

More on the egotism of the “fine-tuning” argument

To think that Humans are physiologically or communicatively perfect as a species is also a terribly ignorant and egotistical claim.  Consider that a crocidile can eat a meal a month and be perfectly fit, whereas, because of our warm-blooded nature, humans have to eat constantly.  The human eye has a narrow view of the elecromagnetic spectrum. (did you know dolphins use echolocation to see?  A dolphin can see through solid objects).  We age to death, contracting cancer, alzheimers, and deteriorating senses along the way.  Consider that close to 40% of birth defects are genetic (perfect?! lol!), and around 60 percent are unknown causes.  There are some cases where a fetus developes with it’s heart outside of it’s body, or is missing a pelvis, or their eyes are attached to each other or their head is missing.  Also consider that humans eat, drink and breath through the same hole in our body, garuanteeing that some percent of people will choke in their life time.  My favorite “design” flaw is that humans dispose of waste through the same holes that we use for reproduction, an “Entertainment center in the middle of a sewage complex”, as Neil deGrasse Tyson put it.

Many people assume that Earth was designed for humans and that the universe is orderly.  You can identify a big ego by asking this question:

Doesn’t the universe make you feel small?

Of course, an egotistical response would be to say that it does make you feel small.  That means that you had a preconceived notion that you and your species were some how special.

“There are people who say ‘this makes me feel small because I need to see the immensity of the cosmos’ and I say ‘no, you’re not thinking about it the right way’…When I look up in the universe, I feel large [as opposed to small]…I know the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos, and it’s our fifteen pounds of brain matter that figured this out!…”

Chance

One could say that the chances of Earth being where it is are low.  That’s irrelevant.  The fact is, the universe rolled a dice and the result formed us where we are.  It could have had a different result, one that didn’t form us, or Earth, but then, what would that question matter?

Consider the other 5 recipes that didn’t get to exist, do you think they’re complaining?