Problems With the Argument From Fine Tuning |
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| Authors: | Mark?Colyvan mailto:mcolyvan@uq.edu.au" title=" mcolyvan@uq.edu.au" itemprop=" email" data-track=" click" data-track-action=" Email author" data-track-label=" " >Email author,Jay?L.?Garfield,Graham?Priest |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;(2) Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.;(3) Department of Philosophy, Smith College Northampton, MA, U.S.A.;(4) Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;(5) Graham Priest Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;(6) Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland |
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The argument from fine tuning is supposed to establish the existence of God from the fact that the evolution of carbon-based life requires the laws of physics and the boundary conditions of the universe to be more or less as they are. We demonstrate that this argument fails. In particular, we focus on problems associated with the role probabilities play in the argument. We show that, even granting the fine tuning of the universe, it does not follow that the universe is improbable, thus no explanation of the fine tuning, theistic or otherwise, is required. |
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