WOTMQ: Fine-Tuned For What?
Among Christian apologists, the "fine-tuning" argument for God's existence has become among the most popular. It's a powerful argument. Or at least it seems so until you start thinking about it — which is the true mark of religious thought. If one were arguing for a deist god, perhaps the fine-tuning argument would be compelling. But a god like the Tribal War god of Abraham, who allegedly cares about us, should not have stopped with the physical properties of the universe. So much more could have been done to make our lives, not just possible/probable, but pleasant — if such a Being exists.
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"Fine tuning," my arse. The physical laws simply… ARE. If a fine tuner established them to allow life to flourish, why are the vast, vast majority of the orbs in this universe NOT in the "Goldilocks zone"? What hubris of religious zealots to think that, since they were born on a planet in such a zone, there is a Gawd who positioned it there. And all the billions of other planets? He was just dicking around? Creating them on a whim, all for naught?
The fine tuner makes Jesus, then fails to note that it's the perfect proof of concept. Why didn't the FT make us all like Jesus? Free will and no sin! Problem solved!
Too often our rebuttals to their fine tuning arguments are dismissed by theists casually as a clear consequence of humankind's inherent imperfection and tendency to sin....
Such a convenient little out for them, isn't it? When they're starting from a perspective where logic isn't the foundation of their thinking, logic can't be used to sway them.
People who believe in God are IMO irrational, and amazingly egotistical. The idea that any entity would create an entire universe just so that on one obscure planet humanity would come into being is ludicrous. [And pretty inefficient of the all-knowing all-powerful entity, wouldn't you say?]
Wouldn't that ineffiency be the very thing that negates the fine-tuning argument? So many gaps in their positions that they have to spend all their time trying to stitch them up. And the ideas the use to repair the holes in their ideology are the very things that negate it. It's like they have only so much thread so they keep reopening the hole they just fixed in their effort to sew up the next one. Ultimately, the whole thing just falls apart and they end up running around naked even though they refuse to acknowledge it. (Not sure if the right tone carried through there...I am agreeing with you just in case it isn't clear. 😉)