Doesn't the "fine tuning" argument also argue for a god who is beholden to those very limits? As I understand it, the argument goes that certain universal constants are tuned precisely as they must in order for the universe to support life. But that implies that god had no other option than to set those constants in exactly those positions. Had the all powerful and all knowing god turned any of the dials just the tiniest fraction to the right or left, the universe fizzles. Therefore, it doesn't stand to reason that god is the creator of the universe; it's more likely that he stumbled upon a "universe tuning machine" that was improperly tuned, figured out the proper settings, and BAM!!! Instant universe!
What's that? Where did the "universe tuning machine" come from? Damn, do you always ask such dumb questions?
What's that? Where did the "universe tuning machine" come from? Damn, do you always ask such dumb questions?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
