Hi, I come from a very Catholic family but never really believed in God. I slowly took distance from religion and now I’m exploring atheism.

Recently found a video about how the “fine tuning” argument was one of the more difficult for atheists to answer.

But thinking about it the argument is the same theists apply when they don’t know the origin of something. Since the origins of humankind, we always filled the gaps of the unexplained with the supernatural, specially when there’s an apparent order or improbability in this case.

Science might not know why the universe is like it is, but the improbability of it doesn’t prove intelligent design.

Edit: Thanks for all the answers, very good points in the comments, and sorry I’m replying so late and didn’t explain what the argument is:

The fine-tuned universe is the hypothesis that, because “life as we know it” could not exist if the constants of nature – such as the electron charge, the gravitational constant and others – had been even slightly different, the universe must be tuned specifically for life.[1][2][3][4] In practice, this hypothesis is formulated in terms of dimensionless physical constants.[5]

Taken from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe

  • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Life (including sentient life) isn’t improbable given how infinite the universe is. There’s 8 planets surrounding our sun and 2-3 are in the “habitable zone” there’s 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy alone and there are countless galaxies in the universe. I only wish that alien life would come here for the sole purpose of eliminating the biggest argument that theists have. The only problem being the absolute vastness of space. Our planet is not interesting in any way given the scope of everything so it makes no logical sense why any other species would be interested in this specific planet. Not for water, not for minerals, no reason to come here. “Fine tuning” is simply “I can’t grasp the concept of probability amongst a nearly infinite number of chances.”