Hostility of the Universe to Life: Understated Evidence about Cosmic Fine-Tuning?

I've blogged before about the fallacy of understated evidence. Here I want to explore further how it applies to fine-tuning arguments.



Even if we assume that so-called cosmic "fine-tuning" is evidence favoring theism over naturalism, that argument commits the fallacy of understated evidence. In other words, even if the general fact of fine-tuning is more probable on the assumption that theism is true than on the assumption that naturalism is true, it ignores other, more specific facts about fine-tuning, facts that, given fine-tuning, are more likely on naturalism than on theism.



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