Sunday, 16 July 2017

Teleological Argument

In A Nutshell: The universe is perfectly fine-tuned for intelligent life.

Explained: Intelligent life depends upon a complex and delicate balance of initial conditions given in the big bang itself, it is balanced on a knife's edge of fineness to an incomprehensible degree. Were any of these qualities to be altered by the smallest possible degree, life wouldn't exist. This gives three possibilities:
1. Physical necessity - it had to be that way, there was no chance of the universe not being life permitting. Implausible - qualities of existence are independent of the laws of nature, so life isn't a certainty at all.
2. Chance - it was an accident and entirely due to chance that life exists. The odds against life are so incomprehensibly great, that this possibility can't be reasonably faced.
3. Design - rejects both other arguments, intelligent mind designing the universe and life within it. Therefore, this is the only other possibility

My Opinion: This is a massively plausible and logical argument form my point of view. Life is so finely balanced, just like gravity and the makeup of air and the way that rainforests/eyes/hearts work.

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