Ross's Fine-Tuning

[Steven Carr]

http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/design_evidences/20020502_life_support_body_prob.shtml?main

Here Ross bashes out lots of things which allow life on Earth.

Such as 'position & mass of Jupiter relative to Earth'

Curiously, he ignores the fact that the level of activity of earthquakes, droughts, epidemics, volcanoes, floods, tornadoes etc has to lie within a certain range or else we would all be wiped out.

Can anybody think of why Ross does not regard this fine-tuning of natural evils as support for his claims of an Earth which is fine-tuned to allow Humanity to exist?

[Jobar]

IOW, if the universe is fine tuned, then it's fine tuned for evil, as well as for life?

Hmmm. I like it!

Anyway, his calculations are BS. Most of the things he represents as requiring fine tuning for life are not requirements for life. He considers the exact proportions of all elements in the earth's crust- perhaps a few of those chemicals need fall within a certain range, but certainly not all of them. Lots of his other variables ar likewise not vital to life in any way.

[Steven Carr]

Originally posted by Jobar
IOW, if the universe is fine tuned, then it's fine tuned for evil, as well as for life?


Or to be more precise, the evil must also be fine-tuned for life to exist.

I agree Ross's calculations are based on his imagination.