Yet the cosmological fine-tuning evidence does not just support a generic intelligent design hypothesis. It also provides support for either a theistic or deistic design hypothesis—in other words, a God hypothesis. Here’s why. Recall from Chapters 7 and 8 that physicists think that the fine tuning of the laws and constants of physics, and (obviously) the initial conditions of the universe, would have been set from the beginning of the universe. Since both theism and deism conceive of God as existing outside of our time and as having acted to create and design the universe at the beginning of
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