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The Fine‐Tuning Argument
Author(s) -
Manson Neil A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00188.x
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , anthropic principle , teleological argument , fine tuning , philosophy , theoretical physics , physics , epistemology , chemistry , quantum mechanics , biochemistry , teleology
The Fine‐Tuning Argument (FTA) is a variant of the Design Argument for the existence of God. In this paper the evidence of fine‐tuning is explained and the Fine‐Tuning Design Argument for God is presented. Then two objections are covered. The first objection is that fine‐tuning can be explained in terms of the existence of multiple universes (the ‘multiverse’) plus the operation of the anthropic principle. The second objection is the ‘normalizability problem’– the objection that the Fine‐Tuning Argument fails because fine‐tuning is not actually improbable.