A naturalistic worldview should, given the discovery of the extreme fine tuning necessary for life, actually lead us to expect a sterile universe incapable of hosting life anywhere. Here’s why. The fundamental laws of physics are consistent with a vast array of other possible universes: universes that evolved from different initial conditions and universes with different physical constants in their laws, or both. Since the laws of nature do not determine the values of the physical constants or the initial conditions of the universe, they do not render any one of these possible
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