Fine tuning argument assessed

[Sword of Christ]

That's not strictly true: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...c-map.html

It's a potential explanation for evidence of something, not that the whole premise multiple layers of reality and existence is particularly something religion has been set against anyway. If anything that would somewhat be the idea, there's much more going on than only the stuff we can immediately see and far more than than our science understands or possibly could ever understand.

It is difficult to test at the moment due to the obvious physical constraints regarding how far we can see and travel, hence it is confined to an existing wider framework of physics. However, it's also worth noting that there's no evidence for god either.

You can't prove the existence of God with science so you have to use other kinds of evidence. You have revelation, you have the Holy Spirit.



You have rational arguments for Gods existence as well of course, some good convincing arguments on offer.

If there were an infinite number of universes, a great many of them would almost certainly not be able to support any sort of life

If they are all part of the existence God has deliberately created for a purpose/function then they naturally all would all contain beings consciousness and will. It would seem a bit wasteful otherwise, unless waste universes are required as part of the system. But this is all fine to speculate about it won't really prove anything either way.

Either your criteria are clear for selection and rejection of things that don't require causes, or they aren't (as is currently the case). If one thing can be uncaused then potentially other things can be uncaused

You have one thing that lacks a cause, this thing is God, and everything else is caused by this by this initial aspect of existence. There's nothing wrong this premise as far as I can tell. Otherwise you're saying things can simply happen for no reason or explanation at all.

, and the 'chance' behind matter and anti-matter materialising is greater than that of a fully formed and functional super creature materialising from nothing, unless you've got a handy Darwinian explanation for the life-cycle of god.

God doesn't have a life cycle he's just the reason why we have life cycles and cosmological cycles and everything else that happens and goes on. He created all of that and that's the reason why all of this exists. The Good Book will fill you in on some of the details of the relationship between Creator and his creatures, your eternal salvation from sin and your inner knowledge of good and evil and all that business. All the stuff science doesn't cover right here.

Basically, there are few widely circulated ideas with less evidence than multiverse theory, but religion is one of them.

Religion is compatible with multiverse theory so there isn't a problem. Science gives you the how and religion the why.

Supermassive black holes are pretty chaotic, imho.

They only help to provide physical structure for entire galaxies of stars without them life may not even exist. There's an interesting book on the subject of black holes I'm reading atm.




This is a book of pure science/physics with no mention of religion of God or religion at all so you may be interested in it.