RE: The fine tuning argument
September 12, 2010 at 6:56 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2010 at 6:59 am by Captain Scarlet.)
Fine tuning refutes the design argument before it gets off the ground. When it does get off the ground it is deeply unimpressive as its an argument from incredulity.
It refutes design becuase it says "gee look on the universe could be hugely different if any of these parameters varied by even the smallest fraction". This ignores the fact that if true, the so called Design of the universe is fundamentally flawed becuase its therefore hugely fragile and an omnipotent creator would have been able to creaste something more robust and more likely to lead to the result intended. Still a problem for those proposing the argument and not for the alternative hypotheses on the universe.
Fine tuning makes large claims about how unlikely thing are to have turned out this way, quoting outrageous probabilities, but never compares them against the probablility of the universe turning out any other way. This is becuase none of us know. It is possible that the universe could only ever turn out this way, or that there is a multiverse were every possible universe exists, or that there are many life permitting universes. Until we know more there is no point saying that we have a 10 to the power 500 chance of being here, becuase in reality this is not known.
It refutes design becuase it says "gee look on the universe could be hugely different if any of these parameters varied by even the smallest fraction". This ignores the fact that if true, the so called Design of the universe is fundamentally flawed becuase its therefore hugely fragile and an omnipotent creator would have been able to creaste something more robust and more likely to lead to the result intended. Still a problem for those proposing the argument and not for the alternative hypotheses on the universe.
Fine tuning makes large claims about how unlikely thing are to have turned out this way, quoting outrageous probabilities, but never compares them against the probablility of the universe turning out any other way. This is becuase none of us know. It is possible that the universe could only ever turn out this way, or that there is a multiverse were every possible universe exists, or that there are many life permitting universes. Until we know more there is no point saying that we have a 10 to the power 500 chance of being here, becuase in reality this is not known.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
