RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
March 29, 2017 at 11:54 am
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2017 at 11:55 am by masterofpuppets.)
(March 29, 2017 at 11:27 am)SteveII Wrote:(March 29, 2017 at 11:06 am)ma5t3r0fpupp3t5 Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R97IHcuyWI0
Sean Carroll seems to disagree completely. However, for the sake of argument, let's grant that the universe is indeed finely tuned. Even if this is the case, we're not one step closer to demonstrating that any deity exists. All we've done is show that the universe was fine-tuned by something. That something could be a million different things. What makes you think a god is a more likely fine-tuner?
You mean there are other alternatives to consider? What?
If you are going to say the Multiverse, then you have just pushed back the problem. If order for any multiverse to spawn billions upon billions of universes--each unique in its physical laws and constants, doesn't it too have to be fine-tuned to do so?
According to your argument God would have to be finely tuned as well, and to reject this is committing the fallacy of special pleading. God is just another candidate hypothesis to the solution of the fine tuning problem (if it even exists), and this hypothesis doesn't magically get a free pass.
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