Assertion: universe | /r/HasProperty | different
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: radically
type: DEGREE
value: completely
type: DEGREE
value: for much
type: OTHER
value: from one
type: OTHER
value: from
type: OTHER
value: vastly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: But given that the world could have been vastly different for much of its existence (e.g. there might have been no human beings, the whole earth could have been covered with water, there might not even have been a planet earth) there is no reason to think that these events should have happened any earlier than they did.
text: It is known that the Universe would be very different if these constants took values significantly different from those we observe.
text: Morriston (2002: 235) responds that although it is true that we don’t need to experience every instance to derive a general principle, the universe is a very different thing from what we experientially reference when we say that things cannot come into existence without a cause.
text: A different way of reading Hume’s argument: the design of the universe not only does not ground claims about the traditional attributes of God, but in fact lends support to the claim that, if the universe had a designer, it is a quite different sort of being than we ordinarily take God to be.
text: Another view, advanced by Richard Dawkins, is that the existence of God is an empirical question, on the grounds that "a universe with a god would be a completely different kind of universe from one without, and it would be a scientific difference.
text: [An] important lesson we learn from the way that pure numbers like α define the world is what it really means for worlds to be different.
text: Some physicists have explored the notion that if the dimensionless physical constants had sufficiently different values, our Universe would be so radically different that intelligent life would probably not have emerged, and that our Universe therefore seems to be fine-tuned for intelligent life.