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Fine tuning argument assessed

Chas

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RE: Fine tuning argument assessed

February 9, 2014 at 3:33 pm

The 'fine-tuning argument' is utterly flawed as it has the cart before the horse.

It assumes that the universe exists to allow our existence. We exist because the universe is as it is.

Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.

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