The finely tuned universe theory – why the religious should not use it to justify their belief in God!
Anyone who has ever heard Dinesh D’Souza or any other religious debate about how the universe is so finely tuned there must be a God is arrogant. Firstly since they are coming from a theological position they have no authority when it comes to debating physics . They are not scientists from major physic backgrounds, they don’t have a great understanding of theory, they are misinterpreting the work of others. Secondly, they make the same mistake as all the other religious people in the past – they assume that all is known. Like germ theory replacing God theory, perhaps as Dawkins points out, what we will come to know will change the tuned universe theory. God should not be a logical or reasoned answer to the finely tuned universe that we happen to live in. So let’s see what the only person who has received the highest awards from all three major American physics societies has to say about it:
