| timmah said: To somebody who believes in God, the immense complexity of the natural world, the amazing interconnected systems that allow all levels of life to function, the interdependence of plant and animal life, the necessity for such precision in the distance of the earth from the sun, exact composition of the atmosphere, necessity of magnetic poles to repel deadly cosmic radiation, and the countless other exact specifications necessary for life that exist on earth add up to an unsurmountable pile of evidence for intelligent design. You see it otherwise. I can see one of those things as being mathematically possible via some equation, but when you add all of them up, there is no way in my view that the entirity of the systems on this life sustaining planet could possibly happen by random chance. This is why it really depends on what evidence you look at it, and how you interpret that evidence. |
I'll just say this has a lot of similarity to what dsgrue and I were talking about with the probbaility of life developing. The problem I have with the fine-tuning argument is the same one I have with the arguments for the development of life.....its just real hard to determine the prior probabilities of all these things. I'm not saying it can't be done, but there are some severe limitations.
