RE: Fine tuning argument assessed
February 10, 2014 at 4:01 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2014 at 4:05 pm by hatsoff.)
(February 10, 2014 at 3:57 pm)Tonus 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.
I don't see how this follows. Fine-tuning proponents are usually pretty clear that for each constant there is a range of life-permitting values, any of which would do the job. But the range is small, relative to the range of all possible values.
(February 10, 2014 at 3:57 pm)Tonus Wrote: If he is limited in that manner, then I think it's clear that he did not create the universe.
This is not clear, no.
God can't, for instance, fit a square peg in a round hole (of certain sizes). He could change the square peg to a round peg in order to make it fit, but then it wouldn't be a square peg anymore. So, maybe he could pull a similar stunt with life in a non-life-permitting universe. However that would involve changing things quite radically from what we envision. At the very least, he would have to suspend the laws of nature in the non-life-permitting universe.
