(July 15, 2013 at 10:24 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: I presume you've all heard the Fine-tuning argument for God's existence before. If not, eh, go to YouTube.
Anyhow, what do you think are good objections to the argument?
I think that it's another "gaps" argument. It presumes that the "settings" of the universe are the only ones that could sustain life, and therefore the universe was balanced specifically for our benefit, because if you adjust any of them even slightly, life is not possible. But we don't know if there is any other combination of settings that would also work.
"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
