since the fine tuning of the universe was established at the beginning of the universe, explaining it also seems to require a preexistent intelligence. Yet in pantheism nothing preexists the natural world, since the natural world (prakriti) and the god of pantheism (brahman) possess self-existence coextensively. Nature and god didn’t come into existence. They simply are. Moreover, god is in nature and the whole of nature is god. Thus, pantheism, like naturalism, lacks reference to any preexistent or transcendent entity, still less an intelligent or conscious one, that could account for the
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