RE: Finely-tuned universe wanted: Intelligent Designers need not apply.
April 10, 2016 at 6:46 pm
(April 10, 2016 at 6:09 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(April 10, 2016 at 4:17 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Why? Alvin Plantinga has stated publicly that god is not an engineer.
Doesn't change what I said.... (and I would want to see the quote in context, before I made any decisions based on it).
As others have said, to apply "engineering principles" to a creator god is just absurd. I work for a prominent engineering company, and in our company handbook, the following appears as an acronym:
Quote:ATAMO - And Then A Miracle Occurs
If there was a "creator god" who is at the foundation of all existence, then he/she/it did not need to "fine tune" anything! He/she/it could have created the Cosmos with whatever "constants" of nature that he/she/it wanted!