Saturday, May 9, 2015

Teleological / Fine Tuning Argument

If life adapted to the universe the way it is, how do you know that if the universe was different, life would have adapted to that universe? Perhaps there are other possibilities for life other than carbon based life forms, for example.

Cal Tech theoretical physicist Dr. Sean M. Carroll responds to Willam Lane Craig's teleological argument:
starting right here and running a minute or two: http://tinyurl.com/ofldvkq

Catholic Ryan Denson debunks WSJ "fine-tuning" article:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/12/29/debunking-wall-street-journal-god-article/

Particle physicist Dr. Victor J. Stenger criticism of the "fine-tuning" argument:
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Cosmo/FineTune.pdf

Other discussions of the fine-tuning argument:
http://blog.fooze.co.nz/2009/07/refuting-fine-tuning-cosmological.html
http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Fine-tuning_argument
(I particularly like this one from historian Richard Carrier)
http://infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/finetuning.html

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