Creation Moment 12/18/2024 - Accidental Goldilocks Porridge?

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. 

Romans 1:22

"Some argue that our universe being fine-tuned for life is merely an accident. After all, there might be millions of flopped universes out there. There is no evidence for them but, they say, we can’t rule them out either.

Durham University philosophy professor Philip Goff explains at

IAI.TV why he doesn’t think that the idea of a multiverse can explain away the obvious fine-tuning of our universe.
An Example of Fine-Tuning
First, he offers an example of that fine-tuning,:
"The claim is just that, for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall in a very narrow range. 

--For example, if the force that powers the accelerating expansion of the universe had been a little stronger, everything would have shot apart so quickly that no two particles would have ever met. There would have been no stars, planets, or any kind of structural complexity. 

--Whereas if that force had been significantly weaker, it would not have counteracted gravity, and so the entire universe would have collapsed back on itself a split second after the Big Bang. 

--For there to be structural complexity, and therefore life, that strength of this force had to be — a bit like Goldilocks porridge –— not too strong, and not too weak: just right. There are many numbers like this, which is what it means to say our universe is fine-tuned for life."

The argument against fine-tuning is called the Inverse Gambler’s Fallacy:
"Suppose you and I walk into a casino and the first person we see is someone winning big. I say, ‘Wow, there must be tens of thousands of people playing in the casino tonight!’ You say, ‘What makes you think that?’ I reply, ‘Well, if there are tens of thousands of people playing, it’s not so surprising that at least one person would win big, and that’s what we’ve just observed."
*Of course, we have no evidence of that." 

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