The God Equation?

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As the possibility of the Earth having the exact required characteristics to fit the equation by chance is remote, and the equation has, in theory, been in existence since the beginning of the Universe, this means that the Earth's orbit, rotation and weight must have been engineered to fit this equation.

The chance is apparently so remote that it couldn't be accomplished even given an infinite number of chances.

Or that the equation was built to fit those characteristics.

At first I looked at the things and thought: "So what it doesn't provide any insights". Then read on and was glad that the authors point is that it's made up.

Pick a few measurements, pick their units and pick how to combine them so that it sort of fit. Voila, claim to fame!

The earth continues to orbit the sun, puppies still lick your hand and scientists barely notice crap like this getting scattered about. The Internet is chock full of it.

Yet we are to believe the AGW crowd zealously hoards their taxpayer-funded data sets because they fear this kind of work will result and it will engender bad publicity and tarnish all their efforts.

Or maybe they have something more solid to fear.

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