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You Must First Invent The Universe by http://www.youtube.com/UppruniTegundanna
A general rebuttal to the claim that the earth and the universe is young, plus a comment on how much humanity has achieved since its relatively recent emergence in the grand scale of things.
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Extracts from the following clips were used in the opening montage:
Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R) says Earth is 6,000 years old
Richard Dawkins on Q&A (1/6)
Re; Earth is 6,000 Years Old (1 of 5) (actually a response to John Pendleton by Dechha1981)
Kent Hovind vs Hugh Ross (part 1, disc 2 of 2)
References:
1. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618299000154
2. http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2009/08/timeline_ice_memory_1.html
3. http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/ideas/gondwana2.html
4. http://es.ucsc.edu/~rcoe/eart206/Patterson_AgeEarth_GeoCosmoActa56.pdf
5. http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0723/
6. http://news.discovery.com/space/the-universe-is-precisely-1375-billion-years-old.html
Clips: Light Fantastic, National Geographic: Born of Fire, National Geographic: In the Womb, National Geographic: Destructive Forces, The Cell, Planet Earth, Earth Shocks: Megavolcano, Walking with Cavemen, PBS Special: 400 Years of the Telescope, The Complete Cosmos, The Story of God, Spacetelescope, ESA/NASA
Music: Maximum – Dreadzone
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Duration : 0:8:37
In short, NO. Do we need to invoke an intelligent designer to explain why the natural forces are the way they are? NO. Science is still researching how the laws of physics are determined, but everything that we know today tells us its not the universe that is fine-tuned for life, but life, through evolution, that has fine-tuned itself for the universe.