(March 21, 2013 at 2:45 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote:Quote: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
How does it imply that? If I engineered a new car wouldn't I have free reign on how to do things?
No. You're only human. You can't build a car any old way and expect it to work. You can't make a driveable car out of nothing but marshmellows or grain alcohol, for instance. Do you think that if God engineered a new car, he couldn't make a perfectly serviceable one out of marshmellows if he wanted to, with no more effort required than it would take him to make one out of steel and plastic?
