Sean Carroll

The things like the amount of energy in empty space could have been so large that it would rip planets apart before they ever formed.

But we seem to have gotten lucky.

We seem to find ourselves in a universe that allows for our existence.

And so the argument is, I know why.

It's because God did it.

Because God created a universe in which that's possible.

A very common counter argument is, well, it also could just be a multiverse, right?

They help play an explanatory role in accounting for why our universe looks so fine-tuned.

So two things going on here.

One is the proponents of this argument tend to exaggerate the degree of fine-tuning that they need.

And that's what the questioner is referring to.

There's certain things that Liam Lane Craig and others say,

oh, I just don't get it.

That's so fine-tuned.

But you can raise your hand and say, actually, physics has completely explained that one now.

We don't need to go beyond the realm of physics to account for that.

But in other ways, it still looks fine-tuned.

And my favorite rejoinder is actually, this is a great argument for the non-existence of God.

Because if God existed and God created life,

God is not beholden to the local laws of physics.