(September 4, 2022 at 4:09 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 3, 2022 at 9:27 pm)smithd Wrote: Thanks for your reply. Fair enough that it doesn't connect to the Christian God. I just wanted to establish that fine tuning points to a designer of some sort. Your argument is that fine tuning is an illusion? There is a real case to be made that there is fine tuning though. If the physical parameters were different we may not even have atoms, let alone life. Why is the universe like that?
Fine tuning would point to a designer if it could be established that fine tuning exists. It can’t be, so it doesn’t.
Acting surprised at the existence of life in a universe that has the conditions for life is rather like walking into a clothing shop and being stunned at all the coats and trousers.
Boru
If our Universe were designed by God, then God did not need to "fine tune" anything. He could have arranged things so that we could survive, say, on the surface of the Sun.
The whole idea of the Universe being "fine tuned" is that some grand designer does not exist.
