• Index to Posts on the Fine-Tuning Argument

    Here are all my posts on the fine-tuning argument:

    The Argument Stated

    Is there only one possible universe?

    Other Forms of Life?

    Bad Methodology in the Fine-Tuning Argument

    The Principle of Indifference

    Does the Fine-tuning Argument Commit the Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent?

    Elliot Sober’s Objection to the Fine-tuning Argument

    Fine Tuning As An Argument for Prior Probability

     

    Here are some further resources on fine tuning:

    Robin Collins’ homepage (Collins is a leading expert and defender of the argument).

    Victor Stenger’s homepage (Stenger is a physicist and prominent critic of the Fine-Tuning Argument)

    Ikeda and Jeffries, The Anthropic Principle Does Not Support Supernaturalism

    Elliot Sober’s paper on Fine-Tuning

    Luke Barnes’ posts on fine-tuning – Luke Barnes is a physicist who gives a knowledgable and even handed treatment of the fine-tuning argument and its critics.

     

    Books:

    God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science

    The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning

    The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology

    The End of Christianity – Which contains a chapter on the argument to design.

     

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    Article by: Nicholas Covington

    I am an armchair philosopher with interests in Ethics, Epistemology (that's philosophy of knowledge), Philosophy of Religion, Politics and what I call "Optimal Lifestyle Habits."