Penrose (2004: 759):
It is remarkable that the constants of Nature are so adjusted that such an energy level should be in just the right place, so life, as we know it, could come about. Another example of apparent cosmic good fortune is the fact that the neutron’s mass is just slightly greater than that of the proton (1838 and 1836 electron masses, respectively). The existence of an appropriate family of stable nuclei, on which almost the whole of chemistry depends, rests upon this seemingly fortuitous fact.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, this misconstrues result (life, stable nuclei) as purpose, since the word 'adjusted' implies intention.
An analogous proposition would be that Einstein's ancestors all slightly adjusted their behaviours to fortuitously produce Albert.
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