The Multiverse Is an Attempt to Avoid the Implication of Cosmic Fine-Tuning
“Yeah. The fine-tuning, that one degree, well, one degree, one hair different of nothing—that even though it doesn’t prove design, doesn’t prove a Designer, [it] could have all happened without [God]—You have to spend time thinking about it, working on it. It’s not a trivial [argument]. We all say that.”—Christopher Hitchens, 2012
Thus, the late atheist Christopher Hitchens—hardly one given to charity toward his philosophical nemeses—to his credit conceded that the fine-tuning argument is not a trivial argument, that the precision with which a host of physical forces is specified and coordinated in a way...
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