RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
August 31, 2014 at 3:12 pm
The fine-tuning argument, to me, implies that there is no other set of values that could have led to life in the universe. Otherwise it's not much of an argument, as rasetsu pointed out. So the question is, do we know for certain which knobs on the universe's Options and Settings Menu have to be set to precise values, and how far off would those values need to be to render the whole universe into a solid lump of nothing?
Water will only boil at 212 degrees Farenheit, but I can cook up a half-decent hot dog with only 200. Checkmate, theists!
Water will only boil at 212 degrees Farenheit, but I can cook up a half-decent hot dog with only 200. Checkmate, theists!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
