Skeptic's about the fine-tune argument

The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning

How the Universe is Not Designed for Humanity

http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/anthro.html

The Fine-tuning argument (part 1)
One of my favorite apologetic arguments is the Fine-Tuning argument. It goes like this:

http://skepticsplay.blogspot.com/2009/08/fine-tuning-argument-part-1.html

THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE DOES NOT SUPPORT SUPERNATURALISM

http://www.talkreason.org/articles/super.cfm

The Uncreated Universe

http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Found/06Cosmic.pdf

Videos :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6FQdyHUXwc&feature=related

Richard Carrier talks about our supposed fine-tuned universe. Specifically, Lee Smolin's hypothesis.

I personally don't buy it because if violates Occam's Razor but who knows.

Further Reading:

-- Fine-tuned universe --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tun...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmolog...



Fine-Tuned Universe Fallacy

The religious often invoke the 'Fine-tuned universe' hypothesis to prove the existence of their god: that the constants of nature are so ideal for the emergence of life that the constants must have been 'finely-tuned' by 'God'.

This contains two main logical errors:
1: The hypothesis mistakes a necessary condition for a contingent condition.
2: The hypothesis mistakes what is generally improbable from what is more probable

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwu1wEiTAyc&feature=related

PROBLEMS WITH THE ARGUMENT FROM FINE TUNING

http://homepage.mac.com/mcolyvan/papers/finetuning.pdf