Our Debt to the Scientific Atheists

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@colewd

You made a straw man argument by changing the way sufficient was used.

You used the word wrong and it’s my fault? Really?

@colewd

Fine tuning can be necessary for life yet it is not the only condition required.

‘Tuning’ could be necessary but insufficient, fine tuning could not be insufficient.

@colewd

Fine tuning of matter is evidence of intelligent creation.

As was discussed in another thread, there is no evidence of any tuning at all:

@CrisprCAS9

A universe can either preclude life, permit life, or be optimized for life. With natural processes, optimized should be extremely rare relative to permissive, and we wouldn’t be here in the first place if life is impossible. So with natural causes, we should expect to be in a universe that permits life, but barely. That is what we find. If we were in an optimized universe, that would be evidence for a designer, but that is clearly not the case. If we were in a precluding universe, that would be extremely strong evidence for a designer, but again, that isn’t the case. What we actually observe is not evidence for a designer at all.

@colewd

The parts functionally arranged in a cell are also evidence of intelligent creation.

As they look precisely as they should from natural processes, this is clearly false.