The Fine Tuning argument

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This playlist addresses Bob Dutko's sermon "Answering the Skeptic"

Here are other counter-arguments to "fine-tuning".
Sean Carroll
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Lawrence Krauss
Phil Halper

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[dorothymccomb]

They fail to realize that the universe is not tailored to us, WE are tailored to it. Anything that wasn't, IS DEAD.

[freddylubin]

I believe in god because of how my legs are EXACTLY the length needed to reach from my hips to the ground!

[impala]

I couldn't stop spitting my beer out with the "sock, cannibalism, petroleum trampoline and proctology" comment. 😂

[Rallarberg]

If an omnipotent deity existed, the fine tuning argument would be moot anyways; that deity should be able to create life in _any_ universe.

[morganramsay]

If idle hands are the Devil's play things, idle minds are God's.

[stevendefeo]

This video should be played in schools everywhere

[johnhunter]

Do I really want to watch yet another "fine tuning" debunk? Yes, you definitely want to watch this novel approach. The final few seconds tie it all together beautifully. Congratulations on this one @AronRa, although for Sci fi fans, it is a bit of a kick in the old "DNA torpedo" sources.

[KynMites]

I like darkmatter2424's argument. Fine tuning doesn't make it look like a god did it, it makes it look like this is the only way it could work. If a god did it, they should have been able to build it anyway they wanted, including in a way that doesn't make sense.

A mechanic tunes an engine to get as close to the restrictions of physics as possible, not because only a mechanic could have made an engine fine tuned.

[AlbertaGeek]

Going to say before even watching the video that whenever someone brings up the "fine tuning" argument, I instantly think of Douglas Adams' brilliant puddle analogy. Now on with the show!

[wyldink]

The Fine Tuning Argument: A tacit admission that God was forced to create life within a set of parameters. Who created those parameters he was forced to create within is presently unknown.

[uriituw]

“I can’t explain it, therefore it’s fine-tuned.”

[EricGraham-hs]

The Fine Tuning Argument Ain’t Nothing But the Intelligent Designer Argument in a “Tuxedo”.

[TheZeroNeonix]

If you were instantly teleported to a random point in the universe, the chance of you surviving would essentially be 0%. The universe is far from fine-tuned.

[r.i.p.volodya]

The statistics you quoted on eggs, sperm, birth etc are GREAT!

[yakkow]

Dunno if this guy does it but I love the paradox argument of “the universe is fine tuned, we’d be dead if anything were changed in the slightest!” and then “oh god sped up nuclear decay to make radio metric dating look so old!” I think that would change just a few physical constants.

I assume speeding up evolution after Noah’s flood would also involve changing a few physical constants as well.

[andystokes]

The universe is not fine tuned to allow life as we know it to exist; life as we know it is fine tuned in order to survive in the environment that we occupy. If the laws of physics were slightly different life would also be different in order to fit the different environment.

[Scarletpooky]

Whenever I hear "Life wouldn't exist" my mind instantly replies "No, life as we currently know it wouldn't exist." We have little idea what other life might exist under different conditions.

[TWANDTW]

The fine tuning argument always remembers me the quote from Mark Twain:
"If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that that skin what what the tower was built for."

[NerdFestUK]

If you are a God, why do you need to fine tune at all? Surely you can set the parameters any way you want them?

[ominous-omnipresent-they]

The problem with the anthropic principle is that it's based exclusively on life as we currently understand it. Even if the physical laws were different, that does not mean that life in some other capacity wouldn't inevitably emerge.