naturalists might simply treat the values of the constants as givens. Yet even if one defines the laws as including the constants, the laws certainly do not contain information about the initial conditions of the universe. Yet those conditions also exhibit extreme fine tuning that the laws don’t explain. Moreover, simply defining constants as part of the laws of physics still does not explain why the physical constants themselves have the exact values they do. And since nothing in fundamental physical theory explains why the constants have these precise values, the values still require
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