positing such an unobserved superintelligence to explain the fine tuning of the universe does not violate any principles of sound reasoning. Instead, it represents a natural extrapolation from our knowledge of the kind of finely tuned, information-rich systems that relevantly similar human intelligences produce. Similarly, positing a specifically transcendent intelligence to explain the fine tuning is warranted by the nature and the timing of the appearance of the effect itself—and by the attributes of the posited cause, namely, God.
