Refuting Vic Stenger (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, December 31, 2012, 23:01 (4136 days ago) @ romansh

http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Fallacy/DefendFallacy.pdf-Interesting refutation of a refutation:-Stenger: "I have never denied that life, as we know it on Earth, would not have
evolved with slight changes in parameters. In Fallacy I showed (1) that plausible explanations, consistent with existing knowledge, can be made for the observed values of the five critical parameters and, (2) plausible ranges for the other parameters exist that are far from infinitesimal, contrary to what is claimed in the theistic literature. Nothing in Barnes' paper changes my basic conclusion: The universe is not fine-tuned for us. We are fine-tuned to the universe."-Interesting mirror-image view of the relationship. We are certainly bound to each other, humans and the universe. All he is doing is removing the impression of teleology. Take it or leave it.