{"id":656,"date":"2013-03-01T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=656"},"modified":"2013-02-28T21:23:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T21:23:46","slug":"other-forms-of-life-fine-tuning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2013\/03\/01\/other-forms-of-life-fine-tuning\/","title":{"rendered":"Other forms of Life? (fine tuning)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us once again look at the first four statements of <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2013\/02\/26\/mapping-the-fine-tuning-argument-the-argument-stated\/\">the fine-tuning argument<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. It is conceptually possible to change physical laws and constants from observed values.<\/p>\n<p>2. Conceptually changing some constants from their observed values (independently) would make the universe uninhabitable for life as we know it. NOTE: What I mean by changing &#8220;independently&#8221; is when someone changes the constant value in their equation without changing the value(s) of any other constants.<\/p>\n<p>3. The constants have an extremely large range of conceptually possible values.<\/p>\n<p>4. Therefore, the number of values that permit life is very small.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, &#8220;life as we know it&#8221; (Premise 2) is not necessarily the same as life period. After all, there could be very different forms of life in a universe with different constant values. This certainly seems to undercut the vast majority of fine-tuning arguments. However, William Lane Craig, in his debate with Victor Stenger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ipsb2ywhSU0&amp;feature=related\">brings up the point<\/a> that some of the &#8216;finely tuned&#8217; constants have to do with whether chemistry would exist or not (and it is certainly a reasonable assumption that all forms of life will depend on a pre-existent chemistry) and so the &#8216;other forms of life&#8217; argument, while weakening the fine-tuning argument considerably, does not quite destroy it, for there is still some fine-tuning to be explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us once again look at the first four statements of the fine-tuning argument: 1. It is conceptually possible to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}