On this episode we look at the scope of the problem that Fine Tuning poses to naturalistic theory.  Do we see the Creator’s fingerprint clearly showing?  Don’t forget God loves you! Gonzales, G., & Richards, J. W. (2004). The Privileged Planet. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing “Beginning in the 1960’s, physicists unveiled a universe apparently fine- tuned for the possibility of human life.  They discovered that the existence of life in the universe depends upon a highly improbable but precise balance of physical factors.  The constants of physics, the initial conditions of the universe, and many other of its features appear delicately balanced to allow for the possibility of life.  Even very slight alterations in the values of many factors, such as the expansion rate of the universe, the strength of gravitational or electromagnetic attraction, or the value of Planck’s constant, would render life impossible.  Physicists now refer to these factors as “anthropic coincidences” (because they make life possible for man) and to the fortunate convergence of all these coincidences as the “fine tuning of the universe”.  Given the improbability of the precise ensemble of values represented by these constants, and their specificity relative to the requirements of a life-sustaining universe, many physicists have noted that the fine tuning strongly suggests design by a preexistent intelligence.”  Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe – Behe, Dembski & Meyer "Why did the universe start out with so nearly the critical rate of expansion that separates models that recollapse from those that go on expanding forever, that even now, 10 thousand million years later, it is still expanding at nearly the critical rate? If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in 100 thousand million, million, the universe would have collapsed before it ever reached its present size."  (Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, 1988)   Partial Fine Tuning List:1.      Hoyle’s discovery of carbon production2.      Initial phase-space volume of the universe – 10,000,000,000^1233.      Expansion rate of the universe – 10^164.      Mass of quarks – 10^215.      Gravity 10^356.      Cosmological constant 10^907.      Universal density 8.      Mass of neutrinos9.      Electromagnetic force10.   Strong nuclear force – 200^38 “If we modify the value of one of the fundamental constants, something invariably goes wrong, leading to a universe that is inhospitable to life as we know it.  When we adjust a second constant in an attempt to fix the problem(s), the result, generally, is to create three new problems for every one that we “solve”.  The conditions in our universe really do seem to be uniquely suitable for life forms like ourselves, and perhaps even for any life form of organic chemistry.”  J Gribbon and M. Rees, Cosmic Coincidences (New York: Bantam Books, 1989) Psalm 136:4-5 NKJV[4] To Him who alone does great wonders, For His mercy endures forever; [5] To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, For His mercy endures forever; 

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