to achieve various goals or objectives, intelligent agents typically must choose among (or constrain) a range of possibilities to actualize an otherwise improbable outcome. The act of choosing among options is what is meant by “fine tuning,” and it is precisely what intelligent agents with free will do. (The Latin roots, inter lego, of the English word “intelligence” mean “to choose between.”) Consequently, we have good reason to expect that, if an intelligent agent acted in the past to design the universe to be a life-sustaining place, we ought to expect to observe something like the
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