Sean Carroll

But this is a more broader idea, right?

Yeah.

There are plenty of tentative preliminary scientific ideas which are too ill-formed yet.

I'm with you.

Predictions.

We'll do it.

Just trust us.

And lifetime is getting shorter every year, so I don't know.

Yeah, that's fine.

But the fine-tuning argument for the existence of God is what I think is the best argument for the existence of God.

I also think it's a terrible argument, but still it's the best of the ones that they have.

So I'm glad when they refer to it.

And the idea is that

You look around the world, the world in which we live, the universe we find ourselves in, and you say, there are features of this universe that need to be the way they are in order for life to exist.

If they were different, life couldn't exist.

But they easily could have been different.

right?

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.