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Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Pedrini, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team.

Defending Fine-Tuning: How to Respond to 20 Common Objections

Scientists have discovered a whole suite of parameters and initial conditions appear to be exquisitely tuned to allow for complex life to exist. Read More ›
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Meyer on Mind Pump: Intelligent Design for the Fitness Crowd

Dr. Meyer is talking about Albert Einstein’s greatest error with a huge “podcast that is dedicated to providing truthful fitness and health information.” Read More ›
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The Story of Everything…or of Nothing?

The movie is respectful in how it addresses questions. It doesn’t preach. But it challenges perspectives at the heart of who we are. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Acknowledgment: Mehmet Yüksek.

Framing a Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical “Carrollers”

Using Sean Carroll’s criticisms of the fine-tuning argument as a general guide, I propose to address objections to that argument. Read More ›
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Platonic Minds: How Stuart Burgess’s Ultimate Engineering Challenges Maverick Biologist Michael Levin

Levin faces a measure problem analogous to that in cosmology, resulting from the optimality of biological designs. Read More ›
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The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers

Carroll is a prolific physicist and cosmologist who has been a prominent popularizer of science. Read More ›
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Wheelbarrows, Watches, and Designers: More on Sean Carroll

Describing luxury mechanical watches as “marvels of engineering and design” is not a religiously motivated claim. Read More ›
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Why a Multiverse Doesn’t Refute Fine-Tuning

With the multiverse hypothesis, a key supposition is that the physical parameters within alternative universes somehow vary over an undefined range. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Veilleux, J. Wang, J. Greene.

New Peer-Reviewed Paper Defends Cosmic Fine-Tuning Argument

Fumagalli does not in the end state whether he himself lands on the multiverse hypothesis, cosmic design, or unknown physics as the best explanation. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team.

Examining Max Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

According to this theory, every possible set of laws governs a universe, and our existence is simply explained by observer bias. Read More ›

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