Fine-tuning is a luck problem - by Hilarius Bookbinder
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And God cannot solve it
Genuinely interesting philosophical ideas never actually die—they just get fancier and more sophisticated revisions. They’re kind of like superheroes. Every few years we’re treated to a brand-new Spider-Man reboot, but this time with even cooler CGI effects. The secret to success in philosophy is not being Newton, it’s being Stan Lee. One of the more recent reboots is fine-tuning. For the uninitiated, fine-tuning arguments are a species of the Teleological Argument for God’s existence. The Teleological (a.k.a. Design) Argument is a very ancient one, discussed in a nascent form by the…
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