The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us. Victor J. Stenger

The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us


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The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us Victor J. Stenger
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Whereas design advocates argue that the universe seems to have been specifically designed so that intelligent life would form, established physics and cosmology tells us that there is in fact no fine tuning. Jun 1, 2012 - Likewise, a universe not designed for us will not look well suited to us but be almost entirely unsuited to us and we will survive only in a few tiny chance pockets of survivable space in it. Jun 30, 2011 - (6/19/2011) The latest edition of Eskeptic has an interview with physicist Victor Stenger about his new book called The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe is Not Designed for Us (see the Source, below). Jan 14, 2011 - My creeping doubts about this claim solidified into skepticism, however, after reading a draft of Stenger's newest book, The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us (forthcoming). Let us hope he concedes with me now. Atheism thus predicts, with near 100% certainly, several bizarre features of the universe (it's vast Victor Stenger summarizes a lot of the reasons why it probably is not in The Fallacy of Fine Tuning. Mar 20, 2013 - Perhaps the most persuasive argument in favor of fine tuning of the Cosmos resulting from God's design, is the cumulative odds attained by adding all the cosmic coincidences. Jan 13, 2012 - Some scientists and philosophers maintain that we ought not to be surprised at the order and fine-tuning we see in the universe around us, since if it did not exist then carbon-based life would be impossible, and we would not be there Was it by deliberate design? An association fallacy is an inductive informal fallacy of the type hasty generalization or red herring which asserts that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another, merely by an irrelevant association https://en.wikipedia.org. Aug 9, 2013 - By "fine-tuning" one does not mean "designed" but simply that the fundamental constants and quantities of nature fall into an exquisitely narrow range of values which render our universe life-permitting. For there is no inconsistency in not being surprised that you do not observe that you are dead, and being surprised to observe that you are still alive. I don't know what the It was not carefully chosen, there is no fine tuning.

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