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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
Okay, so by a deliberate act of choice god arranges that something which is very improbable (assuming that it is improbable which cannot be shown to be the case due to the fact that we can't observe other possible evolutions of the universe, to give an analogy you could compare it to the universe being a biased die, as well as this you are unaware of the number of "failed attempts" there could have been ) will nonetheless be the case, namely that all the forces necessary for the emergence of life will have the "correct" values? This is a logically inconsistent picture. If god created the universe with the aim of making it animate it is illogical that he would have created as its initial state something whose natural evolution would lead with high probability only to inanimate status. It does not agree with the idea of an efficient creation of an animate universe that life is brought about through the first state being created with a natural tendency towards lifelessness and through this tendency being counteracted and overriden by the very agency that endowed it with this tendency.
Given that god is a supremely rational being who does not do things arbitrarily, nor change his mind from moment to moment, and given that he does intend to create a life-supporting universe, it would be contrary to his nature to create a universe which would in all probability fail to realise his intention unless he intervened to engage in the requisite fine tuning. Of course god moves in mysterious ways I hear  |
You speak of probability as though 'God' were subject to it. No matter the improbability of life, 'God' could know that life would in fact develop.