The Fine Tuning Argument
Summary
Despite the powerful arguments against the Design Argument, some recent thinkers have tried to defend a variant of it known as the Anthropic Principle.
This is the view that the chance of the world turning out to be conducive to human survival and development was so tiny that we can conclude that the world is the work of a divine architect.
God must have controlled the physical conditions in our universe, and fine-tuned them to allow just this kind of life form to evolve.
This view is bolstered by scientific research indicating the limited range of suitable starting conditions for a universe in which life could develop at all.
