(August 9, 2015 at 9:15 pm)vixene Wrote:(August 9, 2015 at 9:12 pm)Iroscato Wrote: It's quite a common fallacy, often said by misty-eyed theists who say it whilst literally standing atop the ground which is full of remains of the millions of species which evolved, lived and died out in such a way that we managd to blag our way to planetary dominance.Interesting analogy however it didn't make the argument any clearer to me...
If you want to understand the argument, take a look at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe
The first part deals with what is meant by "fine-tuning" and then later on down the page is the religious twaddle about it, along with arguments against the twaddle.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
