The existence of God

[Pat Mustard]

There's a natural bias in the illusion of fine-tuning - only in a universe where the physical constants are within certain parameters, in a region of the universe where conditions are stable enough to permit evolution to the level of sentience, will such an observation occur.

Even if the universe was created by a god, though, it's a long, long slog to try to connect the dots to the god of Christianity.  Its behaviours in the Old Testament don't engender much confidence as to its competence to fine-tune anything, and its temperament doesn't suggest enough emotional stability to stick with it over the long haul.  Sorry.

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 is a falsehood, it's essentially an overapplication of a thought experiment in physics, viz what would happen if certain constants were changed to different values. And the answer, rather than being "there's only a very specific set of circumstances where life can exist" seems to be turning out more like "conditions for life are likely to be far more common than previously thought".

The simple fact is the universe is only suitable for life in a tiny portion of its volume and for a tiny portion of its existence.