(March 2, 2016 at 9:22 am)Jehanne Wrote: I was watching a Closer to Truth (Season 5, Episode 2 or so) show yesterday and the late Professor Victor Stenger was interviewed, and "Wow, I am such a dummy!" He gave an argument against the so-called fine-tuning argument that reminded me of the widespread stupidity of the 70s and 80s with regards to hardly ever wearing seat-belts in a car, an argument that I have never heard before. Basically, Dr. Stenger said (a poor paraphrase, I admit), "If God exists, then God could have created the constants of nature to be whatever God wanted them to be; God could have created humans to live in outer space or anywhere." Dr. Stenger's point is that the whole fine-tuning argument that William Craig and others advance is just stupid; God, if he/she/it exists, did not need to "fine-tune" anything! To say that fine-tuning exists is really an argument for atheism, not theism, in that it recognizes, even implicitly, that physical law is supreme and not magic or miracles or the supernatural. We can easily imagine scores of dead, lifeless Universes just as modern astronomy has observed scores of lifeless, dead planets all throughout our Galaxy to explain the so-called fine-tuning of our Universe.This is quite a hopeless and confused response by Stenger and it's sad to see him misinforming his acolytes.
While there are legitimate critiques of FT, this one fails because the FT argument doesn't say that God HAS to fine tune anything.
