RT Article
T1 Four (Or So) New Fine-Tuning Arguments
JF European journal for philosophy of religion
VO 8
IS 2
SP 85
OP 106
A1 McGrew, Lydia
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1567181538
AB Both proponents and opponents of the argument for the deliberate fine-tuning, by an intelligent agent, of the fundamental constants of the universe have accepted certain assumptions about how the argument will go. These include both treating the fine-tuning of the constants as constitutive of the nature of the universe itself and conditioning on the fact that the constants actually do fall into the life-permitting range, rather than on the narrowness of the range. It is also generally assumed that the fine-tuning argument should precede biological arguments for design from, e.g., the origin of life. I suggest four new arguments, two of which are different orderings of the same data. Each of these abandons one or more of the common assumptions about how the fine-tuning argument should go, and they provide new possibilities for answering or avoiding objections to the fine-tuning argument.
DO 10.24204/ejpr.v8i2.59