EVEN A BLIND WATCHMAKER HAS TO MAKE A FIX HERE AND THERE (via mc):

By X-Raying Galaxies, Researchers Offer New Evidence of Rapidly Expanding Universe (DENNIS OVERBYE, 5/19/04, NY Times)

Observations of giant clouds of galaxies far out in space and time have revealed new evidence that some mysterious force began to push the cosmos apart six billion years ago, astronomers said yesterday.

The results constitute striking confirmation of one of the weirdest discoveries of modern science: that the expansion of the universe seems to be accelerating, the galaxies flying apart faster and faster with time, under the influence of some antigravitational force.

What's weird about fine-tuning an experiment?

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 21, 2004 7:50 PM