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

  • Neondragon25@piefed.socialEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Sounds like the watchmaker argument for God’s existence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy fun stuff. Here’s some questions, is kids getting cancer part of that design? why can plants do a photosynthesis and animals generally speaking, can’t? Seems like there are better ways of getting nutrients to a living body than eating. Why aren’t there 2 watchmaker? or 3 or more? Did the watchmaker intentionally make things that don’t work or are bad? That doesn’t seem very intelligent to me. Another fun one is Anselms argument, or The Ontological Argument for God’s Existence. Final piece, I consider myself to be an epiphenominalist rather than atheist.

    edit: typos cause autocorrect works everytime. And a missing word