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What is the Fine Tuning Argument? 12 Quick Points
1) Scientists have increasingly become aware that the universe is ‘just right’ for life. If any one of a number of features of the universe had been even slightly different, life as we know it would be impossible.
2) For example, various features of the universe are ‘just right’ for the existence of stars, galaxies and life itself; had they been slightly different the human race could not exist.
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Posted in Existence of God, Quick Thoughts, Science and Christianity
Tagged Christianity and Science, Faith and Reason, Fine Tuning, God and Evidence, Philosophy, Physics
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Dawkins, Christmas and the God of the Physicists
An objection to Christianity often found in popular atheism is that if there is a God he would not sully himself by getting involved in human affairs. In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins claims that, compared to the God of the Bible, a deist God who starts the universe off and then leaves it to its own devices is:
an altogether grander being: worthy of his cosmic creation, loftily unconcerned with human affairs, sublimely aloof from our private thoughts and hopes, caring nothing for our messy sins or mumbled contritions.
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Tagged Apathy, Dawkins, New Atheism, Philosophy, Physics, Who and What is God?, Who Cares About God?
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