Fine tuning argument assessed

[Mr. Moncrieff]

"The probability of a universe existing that can support us....."

There is the main flaw with the argument right off the bat.

The universe does not exist to support us.

We are not special and we are not the reason the universe exists.

Instead, we are an accident of evolution, no more likely to appear than any other species on this planet.

In fact the universe, insomuch as the universe is inclusive of all aspects of earthly existence, is vehemently open to killing us. We have had to continually adapt for millions of years.

The percentage of species still alive that have ever existed is less than 1% I believe...

That means the universe is pretty good at culling the unnecessary and anything it sees as unproductive and forcibly making those that survive to evolve.

The brutality of existence is evident every day. Animals live by the skin of their teeth, existing in a delicate balance of certain starvation and selfish predatory impulses. The selfish genes...

Our cells are continually threatened by disease, cancer and all kinds of bacterium that we still must evolve past.

The universe is incredible, beautiful, amazing, awesome. But those that hold beliefs seem to forget that it is brutal, callous, raging, imposing and terrifyingly opposed to weakness.