I was reading this article on how some scientists from Stanford believe the Universe should have some ‘cause’ that forced it to be the way it is. The basic argument is that the chances of our universe being the way it is are unimaginably small…there are many more initial configuations that would have lead to something completely different and quite likely unable to support life.
I know some of you are already typing ‘Anthropic Principle’ into your keyboard but the article I linked to above says it doesn’t help in this case. Also, for the creationists out there, they likewise say you can take a seat again but I’ll leave that for you to decide.
Still, Anthropic Principle and Stanford researchers aside, why can’t the universe be the way it is just because? Just blind, dumb luck it all worked out? I understand it is human nature to seek causes but in some cases can’t you just throw up your hands and say it was merely a roll of the dice AND for that to be an acceptable position?
If you think about it ‘slim chances’ are all around us. The chances that you would be exactly YOU are incredibly tiny to the point of ridiculousness. One sperm out of millions chose an egg that was released from dozens to make you. A different sperm and a different egg and you wouldn’t be you…you’d be your brother or sister or someone else. Now consider the chances of your parents getting together on that particular day to make you or the chances that your parents ever even met each other in the first place. Now extrapolate that back through time to the first life on earth. If one proto-human didn’t avoid that sabertooth tiger or one bug got squashed by a dinosaur or just about anything and exactly you might not exist today. Do we look for causes on how it came to be ‘just so’ that you exist or would most people just say, “Wow, it was an amazing string of coincidence and chance.”?
Why not let it be so with the Universe?