Why the fine tuning argument is a pile of shit
August 7, 2015 at 9:36 am
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2015 at 9:37 am by Longhorn.)
Strongest argument for god my ass.
It's not even that the logic is faulty, but reality doesn't resemble what it proposes.
The universe is not fine tuned for life. The most you can say about it in this regard is that it is capable of sustaining it. But if this is what an omnipotent being calls fine tuned, then don't let it touch your car.
I mean, look at Earth.
71% of the Earth's surface is water. Great. Not inhabitable, and not even drinkable. Freshwater constitutes a measly 2.5% of total water.....68% of which is frozen. Woohoo. Looking real fine tuned so far.
Now let's look at land: the 30 remaining percent of Earth's surface. Sounds pretty underwhelming. Even more so if you consider that 10 to 11% of the surface is covered in ice. So we're left with a neat ~20% of the Earth being inhabitable. Nice.
But hey, life does exist!.....except for the 99% of species that ever existed which are extinct. Oops.
Oh well, that was only 5 billion species anyway.
And that's just Earth. Look at the big picture. 99.99999....% of the universe is devoid of life. We haven't yet found life on other planets. One would think, since the universe is obviously designed for sentinent beings to exist, there should be a bit more of them, you know? Like, everywhere. But so far, we only know of us. Kind of a flop there, god.
Does this look like fine tuning to you? ._.
It's the typical way of finding 'god' in details and failing to see the big picture. Exactly like when there is a plane crash, one person survives and they call it a miracle, gawd is great! Forget the 140 other dead passengers. That's not important right now.
I'm just soooo tired of seeing this argument come up all the time. Yes, life is awesome, the universe is awesome and the fact that we're a conscious byproduct of it is really awesome. But ascribing that to some dude in the sky with a box of magic fairy dust is taking away from all that jaw-dropping awesomeness.
Ok, I'm done ._.
/rant
It's not even that the logic is faulty, but reality doesn't resemble what it proposes.
The universe is not fine tuned for life. The most you can say about it in this regard is that it is capable of sustaining it. But if this is what an omnipotent being calls fine tuned, then don't let it touch your car.
I mean, look at Earth.
71% of the Earth's surface is water. Great. Not inhabitable, and not even drinkable. Freshwater constitutes a measly 2.5% of total water.....68% of which is frozen. Woohoo. Looking real fine tuned so far.
Now let's look at land: the 30 remaining percent of Earth's surface. Sounds pretty underwhelming. Even more so if you consider that 10 to 11% of the surface is covered in ice. So we're left with a neat ~20% of the Earth being inhabitable. Nice.
But hey, life does exist!.....except for the 99% of species that ever existed which are extinct. Oops.
Oh well, that was only 5 billion species anyway.
And that's just Earth. Look at the big picture. 99.99999....% of the universe is devoid of life. We haven't yet found life on other planets. One would think, since the universe is obviously designed for sentinent beings to exist, there should be a bit more of them, you know? Like, everywhere. But so far, we only know of us. Kind of a flop there, god.
Does this look like fine tuning to you? ._.
It's the typical way of finding 'god' in details and failing to see the big picture. Exactly like when there is a plane crash, one person survives and they call it a miracle, gawd is great! Forget the 140 other dead passengers. That's not important right now.
I'm just soooo tired of seeing this argument come up all the time. Yes, life is awesome, the universe is awesome and the fact that we're a conscious byproduct of it is really awesome. But ascribing that to some dude in the sky with a box of magic fairy dust is taking away from all that jaw-dropping awesomeness.
Ok, I'm done ._.
/rant
