Inflationary cosmology not only does nothing to explain this initial-entropy fine tuning—estimated by Roger Penrose at 1 part in 1010123—it actually exacerbates it.32 It does so because the massive energy of expansion during inflation would increase the entropy/disorder of the universe more than the expansion envisioned by standard big bang cosmology. Thus, inflation would imply the need for a greater initial homogeneity (order) in the configuration of mass-energy (and initial smoothness of spacetime) to account for the high degree of order we see today. Since inflationary cosmology posits an
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