RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
October 18, 2013 at 8:47 pm
(October 18, 2013 at 5:50 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: If life could live anywhere in any conditions and could develop out of anything then the universe wouldn't have to be finely tuned for it would it?
If life was possible anywhere it might be a compelling argument in favor of god. As it stands, even large amounts of the planet we live on are inhospitable to some, most, or even all forms of life.
In any case, the idea of a universe needing to be fine-tuned in order to support life undermines the idea of a being powerful enough to create and tune the laws of the physical universe. If god spun it all off of his finger tips, why would he need to be so cautious about balancing those laws? Why is life only possible in a narrow band of finely-tuned rules for a being who can create men from the dust of the Earth and women from rib bones? Are you saying that if god moved one of the universe's tuning knobs just a few degrees to the right, he would be powerless to create life?
Look, if the fine-tuning argument is true, then god did not create the universe. At best, he stumbled upon a "build your own universe" kit that would only produce life if he assembled it properly. If god is the almighty creator of THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, then he wouldn't need to fine tune a single thing; he'd be able to produce life under any settings because he created the whole thing. Can we put this atrocious argument to rest, now? It's a really bad argument for god. Honest.
"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