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Five Reasons NOT to Believe Hugh Ross' Fine Tuning Argument

Five very funny "evidences" of a designed Earth from Hugh Ross' "Reasons to believe: Fine-Tuning For Life On Earth" The list can be found here: http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/design_evidences/200406_fine_tuning_for_life_on_earth.shtml Because of time constraints I had to shorten my text slides, please pause to read them, as they are Ross' original claims. SirTheist's original post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI-sgPJUW0o Comptech224's Excellent rebuttals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhtPXbCoGBA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQFk4uBlrtA&feature=related And now the five most ridiculous out of the 154 on the list: #58 Timing of birth of continent formation: if too early: silicate-carbonate cycle would be destabilized if too late: silicate-carbonate cycle would be destabilized #84 Biomass to comet infall ratio: if smaller: greenhouse gases accumulate, triggering runaway surface temperature increase if larger: greenhouse gases decline, triggering a runaway freezing #91 Phosphorus and iron absorption by banded iron formations: if smaller: overproduction of cyanobacteria would have consumed too much carbon dioxide and released too much oxygen into Earths atmosphere thereby overcompensating for the increase in the Suns luminosity (too much reduction in atmospheric greenhouse efficiency) if larger: underproduction of cyanobacteria would have consumed too little carbon dioxide and released too little oxygen into Earths atmosphere thereby undercomsating for the increase in the Suns luminosity (too little reduction in atmospheric greenhouse efficiency) #141 Ratio of dual water molecules, (H2O)2, to single water molecules, H2O, in the troposphere: if too low: inadequate raindrop formation; inadequate rainfall if too high: too uneven of a distribution of rainfall over planets surface #153 Heat flow through the planets mantle from radiometric decay in planets core if too low: mantle will be too viscous and, thus, mantle convection will not be vigorous enough to drive plate tectonics at the precise level to compensate for changes in stars luminosity if too high: mantle will not be viscous enough and, thus, mantle convection will be too vigorous resulting in too high of a level of plate tectonic activity to perfectly compensate for changes in stars luminosity

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