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The
most annoyingly obtuse argument - by Aaron Davidson
The
laws of physics possess a beautiful balance without which we
would not be here to discuss its marvelousness. It appears that
the finely-tuned nature of the cosmos is much too improbable to
have happened by chance.
It must, says the Teleological Argument, have been designed to
support complex systems.
Aaron
Davidson rejects the Teleological Argument because it postpones the
question by concocting the existence of a designer. A designer
cannot explain away improbability a designer is even more
improbable than the designed.
Drawing
from simple thought experiments about multiple worlds to ideas
in theoretical physics, the fine-tuning of our universe can
become a much more probable event than it initially seems. The
Teleological Argument attempts to
resurrect the classic Argument
from Design. Rather than address the designs of life, it
points out the designs of basic physics, and just as Darwinian
thinking showed how design need not require a designer, there
are similar ways to account for the physics of this universe.
With this and other possibilities, the Teleological Arguments
conclusion that there must have been a designer loses its
force.
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