Intelligent Design

[Pat Mustard]

What's your rational answer to the fine tuning of the universe, genetic info in cells, interacting parts in cells? They all have qualities with characteristics of design? you can say "I don't know", and that's fine but then aren't you incorporating faith that there will be an alternate answer to explain the qualities of design without a designer?

On fine tuning, if the universe and life can only possibly exist under these precise, perfect conditions, how much "designing" did God really do? Wasn't he constrained by those same rules of 'fine tuning'? Wasn't he essentially following assembly instructions, forced to do things only in a certain way because otherwise it wouldn't work?  And if that's the case, if he's limited by a bunch of rules, he's not really God. God should be able to make things work however he wants, surely.

Of course the fine tuning argument is defective because it only looks at chaning one of the constants without affecting anything else. What is not looked at is the idea that if you change one of the constants the others will also be changed accordingly, which if that happens could result in a similar universe with very different figures for the constants.