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Fine Tuning Principle: Devastating Disproof and Scientific Refutation of Atheism.
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RE: Fine Tuning Principle: Devastating Disproof and Scientific Refutation of Atheism.
(July 22, 2023 at 6:30 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Physicist Paul Davies teaches: "There is now broad agreement among physicists and cosmologists that the Universe is in several respects ‘fine-tuned' for life” (Cosmic Jackpot, Why our Universe is just right for life), while even Steven Hawking admits: "The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life." (A Brief History of Time).

Adequate context for these quotes missing.

Quote:Sir Martin Rees mentions 6 of these Cosmic Constants in the Book, Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe. Sir Martin Rees is a leading researcher on Cosmic Evolution and renowned authority/expert in his field.

Six constants only doesn't mean the universe is, therefore, fine-tuned for life. A lifeless universe could also have been "governed" by six constants only.

Quote:Let’s formulate the Fine Tuning Argument in logical steps:
1.      The Life-Permitting Possible Configurations of the Universe are vanishingly small compared to the Life-Precluding ones (as amply admitted/documented by the above Scientists/Researchers).
2.      Thus, on Chance alone, it’s reasonable to say no life at all should ever have existed.
3.      Therefore, granted the existence of life, Design is a vastly superior explanation to chance, for the fact of why life exists at all in the first place. Chance just isn’t very good at creating life, it turns out, unfortunately for Atheists, because the life-permitting range is mind-bogglingly narrow.

P1, as it is worded, doesn't follow from what was said prior to that. Conditions for life could be varied considerably without doing away with the case that the universe would still be fine-tuned for life.

Regarding P2, it's also reasonable to say that life could still have emerged on chance alone. There is nothing magical about natural processes eventually leading to what we label "life".

Conclusion, therefore, unwarranted.

Quote:An analogy: 10 sharp-shooters are shooting at you, while you’ve been lined up before them in a firing squad for various crimes. Now, on chance alone, it’s a vanishingly small likelihood that you will ever survive this, because they're all not going to miss by chance. Nevertheless, if it turns out that you did survive, then given the evidence of your survival, the most Logical Explanation is not only Intelligent Design, but even Benign Design.

Could be I was "rigged" to survive because someone was there to protect me from death but without anyone noticing their presence, or could be I got lucky (can happen, believe it or not). To decide what the best explanation is here, you need to dig deeper and not just quickly jump to conclusions.

Quote:[Please note, if some of these constants were even slightly altered, galaxies, planets or stars wouldn’t even form in the first place, or the Universe would have re-collapsed long ago into nothingness. Therefore, life would never form because there would be no Planets for it to form on!]

Says who? You appear to be adding extra words here.
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RE: Fine Tuning Principle: Devastating Disproof and Scientific Refutation of Atheism. - by GrandizerII - July 22, 2023 at 10:07 am

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