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drcraigvideosReasonable Faith and Avoid Project team up for this cinematic short film on the impossible reality of our universe’s finely-tuned, life-permitting existence.
For more resources visit: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/finetuning
“Scientists have come to realize a startling truth- the universe looks suspiciously like a fix.” -Paul Davies
Our existence is balanced on a razor’s edge of incomprehensible good fortune.
From the first moment of its inception, the universe’s governing parameters appear to have been delicately calibrated to permit the existence of intelligent life. . . . . . . . . . . .
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@fdiab62
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMCozmic fine tuning in Quran:
@חסד-ת1י
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMWLC is a National Treasure. Thank you Sir!! God Bless.
@janbicker-caarten9416
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMTo my mind I’ve always felt there’s some overlap between the fine tuning argument for God and the ontological argument for God. After all if the fine tuning argument inevitably leads to the conclusion that every possible world exists “out there”, and we cannot (with integrity) exclude a maximally great being (God) existing in one of those possible worlds, then (by definition) that maximally great being exists in this world.
@janbicker-caarten9416
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMI love the clip and I’m so grateful to God for WLC, but 10^20 isn’t 10 followed by 20 zeroes , it’s 1 followed by 20 zeroes
@syhillahmed3824
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMAll Glory and praise to God Almighty , how can you turn your back on him and reject him .
@kristheobserver
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMIt seems to me if the multiverse is correct that simply proves Hinduism is correct. An infinite amount of universe is bound to have deities in it after all.
@mattbrook-lee7732
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMThe implication that physicists came up with the multiverse to placate a bunch of creationists is laughable. Physicists are busy people and don't spend any time at all worrying about what creationists think.
Actually the multiverse is something predicted by string theory. Very few non physicists (including me and probably WLC) would have sufficient understanding of string theory to understand its implications. So we make marvel movies and pseudoscience YouTube videos instead
@mattbrook-lee7732
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMWLC states that these values have a wide range of possibilities. There is actually no evidence that they can be anything other than what they are. You cant calculate the probability of something without fully understanding what caused those things to be
@charlescarter2072
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMBut if it is fine tuned why so much natural death and disasters? Couldn’t the fine tuner have tuned it a little finer to allow for a better safer life on earth. Can anyone help with this? Or have I misunderstood the argument.
@eljay5746
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMSean Carroll debunked this argument years ago.
@godzillakingofthegame2148
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMThe laws of physics had to be in place before the Big Bang…..otherwise you have no big bang.
@marveloussoftware1417
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AM😅😂🤣😂😅
This is ridiculous. Over 99.999% of the universe is fatal to life. There's huge portions of this planet that are fatal to life.
According to the theory of evolution, which is supported by tons of evidence and can be witnessed, all life that is not tuned enough to live on earth dies. So what we end up with is life that has evolved, or been fine tuned, to live on earth but NOT the universe.
@justinjefferson5831
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AM"Each of the parameters that governs the universe can take on a wide range of values."
But how do we know this? Given there is only one universe under observation, and each of the parameters that are fine-tuned take on only one value?
How do we know, for example, that the gravitational constant could have taken on one of the other one-in-10^60 possible values?
@doctorlove3119
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMThis video is full of wild assertions. For example "Each of the parameters that governs the universe can take on a wide range of values". How does he know this? And if he does know it then what is the range? Is it infinite? What's the probability distribution of possible values? What's the mean expected value? If you don't know these then I don't see how it's possible to make the argument. You are just left with a feeling, an intuition, that the universe if fine-tuned.
@doctorlove3119
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMThe universe could contain as many as 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, surely the universe is fine-tuned for lots of stars. But hold on, 95% of the matter in the universe is dark matter and dark energy so forget the stars this is what it's fine-tuned for. But no, that's all wrong, it's actually fine-tuned for me. The purpose of all this and the 14 billions years (and counting) has been for me to live my 80 odd years on earth. Praise the Lord!
@doctorlove3119
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AM"How extraordinary anything should exist" – the argument from personal incredulity
@grigorysteblyanko3584
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMThank you for the video!
@IIrandhandleII
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMNow therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Numbers 31:17-18
Our god is an awesome god with wisdom and power!! The Bible is totally not man made!!
@andywong9847
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMTo Our God Be The Glory. Maker of the heaven and the earth.
@jakejohnson9046
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMOur universe is not just finely tuned but it’s beautiful
@collegepennsylvania837
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AM"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
God loves you so much and showed that by sending His Son to die for us so that we may inherit eternal life. We deserve hell but He gave us heaven through faith in Jesus. He took the punishment we deserved and by putting our faith in Him we can be saved. The Key To Eternal Life:
God bless y’all!!
@MrFossil367ab45gfyth
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMMy dad said to me that many years ago there was a rabbi who always used to go to this diner. One day he told him and the people around him that you can see the beauty of God everywhere in nature. I have to say, this is true. The more I look at anatomy, animals, plants, the planets, galaxies, the universe and everything in nature I see design. I see God's handy work in all the beauty and chaos in the universe. I of course do accept evolution and natural selection to explain the diversity of life, but I believe that God is the guide and designer behind it all.
@falkenvir
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AM"Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding"
QS 3:190
"Who remember Allah while standing or sitting or [lying] on their sides and give thought to the creation of the heavens and the earth, [saying], "Our Lord, You did not create this aimlessly; exalted are You [above such a thing]; then protect us from the punishment of the Fire."
QS 3:191
@IIrandhandleII
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMThe universe is complex therefore noahs ark and samsons magical hair are tenable world views
@deeschoe1245
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMAnd yet zero evidence for your imaginary sky fairy. Sad
@kpballa1009
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMAtheist: (kicking and screaming) No! No! It just all happened by chance!!! I believe it was chance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Atheists have much more (blind) faith than anyone else in the universe.
@سويكتبنراضي-ي3س
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AM1400 years ago:
"We will show Our signs to them in the horizons of the external world and within themselves, until it becomes clear to them that it's the truth. Is your Lord not sufficient? He is a witness over all things."
Holy Quran 41:53
@brigham2250
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMLunatics.
@marianneerni2509
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMSo it was the story from the Kalevala which explains the world. Or is it Odin,or maybe Zeus? And what about the Corn Mother?
@PaulFindh-d5m
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMI met somebody, and we talked about 'on perpose tuned universe'. but in my opinion the ones who might create this universe should be exist already in some kind of frame, or dimension, so the one (He?) who might have create this one was/were already way more advanced than we are, to able to do this. So, coincidence had to start somewhere, and in that case defenately not a God
@shawnchristophermalig4339
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMWhen you put the word "incomprehensibly" into numbers, you'll be like Dr. Lennox became a Christian.
@shantoshohan1737
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMExcellent video
@BerishaFatian
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMI have two questions:
1. Why life only exists if the universe is fine tuned?
2. Why can we see the possibility of the universe not being fine tuned.
@williammabon6430
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMGod do exist and the proof is in mathematics. Here is that proof. Infinity = 1/x(delta) + 1.
This equation says a number is a set-in space that change with space.
In physics this equation reads: Gravity is matter changing with space. It combines Relativity or fractured space with Quantum mechanics or spatial expansion.
How dose God fit into this equation?
This equation is God's mathematical name.
God's name in this equation reads: God's Mind Is Man Changed With God.
Breakdown: God's mind is infinite. In math this measure out as the set of infinity
In math (1/x) represents a fraction of a whole. Any child is a fraction of a parent and man according to the Bible is God's child. Therefore, man is a fraction of God
Change in math is represented by the Greek letter (delta) and it denotes a difference of some kind.
Plus (+) in math means to combine or add something with something.
There is only one God. In math the number 1 means something or someone is complete and individual from all the rest.
Spelled out: God's Mind (Infinity) is (=) Man (1/x) Changed (delta) With (+) God (1).
Scientific Method
Step 1 Observation: Math can deliver unbreakable truths such as 2+2 will always = 4
Step 2 Question: Do math and Divinity share a common truth?
Step 3 Hypothesis: If God exist, He should be found in the house of mathematics.
Step 4 Prediction: God's Mind Is Man Change With God is an equation
Step 5 Test: Any number (Infinity) is (=) a set-in space (1/x) that change (x^2) with (+) space (1))
Note: "X" describes any set, (1) describes any kind of space physical or otherwise
This equation tells us why 2 feet is not the same as 2 inches. Both distances are measured out as 2 units of space but there is a change or difference between both units. They are each sets in a space of distance, but they represent changes in their measurement of distance.
Step 6 Iterate: New look at what makes up reality. Reality consists of 3 domains of space.
a. Fractured space or matter b. spatial expansion or energy c. Complete or unbroken space/information
Step 7 Conclusion: We now know Infinity is real therefore the value in enumeration demand God exists otherwise the domain for enumeration would be incomplete. We know the domain for enumeration is complete because we can count. God must be able to count too all the way to Infinity because His mathematical name tells us what is any number.
Also, George Cantor known as the father of set theory was wrong. There are no sets of numbers larger than Infinity.
Cantor's mistake was he did not see that "change" is a subset within Infinity.
Cantors one on one correspondence between sets of numbers is wrong. Cantor used only one description of a number from one set to match out or with a number from a different number set.
Example. Cantor said the whole number set was smaller than the integer number set. This is how he made his measurement.
Take the integers 2.1 and match it with the whole number 1. Then match 2.11 with the whole number 2. Then match 2.111 with the whole number 3 and so forth. In this view we would run out of whole numbers when we get to the integer 3.1.
This is Cantor's big mistake!
Here is a correct way to measure these two number sets.
Match 2.1 with say 2. In the next sequence match for 2.1 we could match this integer with 4/2 or 5-3 or the square root of 50 divided by the square root of 25. The point being we can match any description for the number 2 to continue this [integer- whole] number matching sequence forever. In this way we could then match the integer 3.1 with 9/3 or 7- 4. Again if Cantor had understood that change describes what any number looks like he would have known there can be no numbers larger than Infinity
@corylohanlon
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMAnyone ever play d&d? Or poker? Or roulette? Or any game that uses chance?
Pretty much every time you play any of these games you witness a series of events that is less likely to occur than imaginable.
Atoms in the universe… roughly 10^80.
Recording all the rolls for the group of an average d&d session? Roughly 20^100.
It's literally less likely than 1/(the # of atoms in the universe). That's not an argument for cthulhu.
That's what measuring hindsight does. It's pretty overwhelming… until you think about it. Then it's pretty underwhelming.
Happy gaming.
@bisasam1748
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMThese videos are phenomenal! Thank you, Dr. Craig!
@anismulla9168
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AM"The heavens, We have built them with power. And verily, We are expanding it" (Qur'an – 51:47).
And many more mysteries can be resolved if one can at least read and try to acknowledge what Qur'an says.
@schrodingerskat8380
02/15/2025 - 10:18 AMIf anyone can believe that a man was born of a virgin, or walked on water, or died and resuscitated ( not in the medical context ) then they can believe anything like a child temporary blind belief in Santa. At least children get over their myths.