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Reply to "Atheist Richard Dawkins Admits Universe's Fine-Tuning Difficult to Explain"

A very common question asked at such discussions is "What is the most compelling argument from the other side that you acknowledge"?  I have heard Prof. Dawkins respond to this question with the fine-tuning answer.

 

Imagine I have a wine glass in front of me.  It is empty, oh, forlorn me.  I pour a glass of water into it.  The water, miraculously, takes the shape of the inside of the wine glass.  If the property of water was one infinitesimal bit different than it is, it would immediately form into room-temperature cubes of water, and not take the shape of the wine glass at all. 

Things are the way they are.  Physical nature demands that existence obeys certain mutually-satisfying laws, or existence would not be here.  No god is needed.  Of course, you can claim that god makes the water take the shape of the wine glass.  go ahead.  Make my day.

 

DF


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