RE: Fine tuning argument assessed
February 10, 2014 at 3:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2014 at 4:00 pm by Tonus.)
(February 10, 2014 at 3:43 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote:If the universe could support life under a different set of constants, then life does not depend on fine-tuning. We cannot use the current "settings" of the universe to argue for the existence of a "fine-tuner" if there are more than one setting that would allow life to appear.(February 10, 2014 at 2:01 pm)Tonus Wrote: You didn't answer the question. Had the parameters been changed, would god have been unable to create life?Not human life as you require a fine tuned universe for it but he could make other kinds of being in some other layer existence like say the celestial hierarchy of angels.
(February 10, 2014 at 3:56 pm)hatsoff Wrote: But as SOC pointed out, God couldn't create life as we know it in a universe which does not physically permit it.If he is limited in that manner, then I think it's clear that he did not create the universe.
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