Fine tuning of the universe: “Who Ya Gonna Believe Me or Your Own Eyes?”

This is the first post in a series from Steve Meyer’s chapter in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos (2021):

Since the 1950s and 1960s, physicists have discovered that the laws and constants of physics and the initial conditions of the universe have been finely tuned to make life in the universe (and even basic chemistry) possible. To many physicists, this discovery has suggested the activity of a fine-tuner or super-intellect — i.e., an actual designing intelligence. Yet other physicists now argue that the fine-tuning of the physical parameters of the universe manifests the appearance, but not the reality, of design. For example, physicist Lawrence Krauss has argued that cosmological fine-tuning does not provide evidence of intelligent design, but instead, “the illusion of intelligent design.”

Stephen C. Meyer, “What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design and What Are Its Theistic Implications?” at Evolution News and Science Today (March 23, 2022)

So Larry Krauss argues “cosmological fine-tuning does not provide evidence of intelligent design, but instead, ‘the illusion of intelligent design.’” Isn’t that a misuse of the concept of illusion?

Doesn’t it amount to saying, Who Ya Gonna Believe Me or Your Own Eyes?

If cosmologists must insist that fine-tuning of our universe can be explained by an infinity of flopped universes out there (and ours just happens to work), whatever is going on, it’s not science.

Meyer is the author of The Return of the God Hypothesis.

You may also wish to read: Jordan Peterson’s reflections on Twitter on reading Steve Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis

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