Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast. I'm your host, Catholic

Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn. And today we'll be looking at some

atheistic objections to the fine-tuning argument for God's existence. But

before we do that, though, I want to let you all know that anyone who is a

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All right, now onto the fine-tuning argument. This is a version of the

design argument for God's existence. And it's based on findings that have been

made in cosmology and astrophysics over the past 50 years. In a nutshell, the

fine-tuning argument says that the odds our universe would have the constants and

conditions in the laws of nature that are necessary for intelligent life to

exist are ridiculously small, something like one in 10 to the 120th power, or

that's a one followed by 120 zeros. To put that into perspective, the number of

atoms in the known universe is one in 10 to the 80th power. So it's a really cool

argument. And what makes it really cool is that there are a lot of atheists who

say that this is one of, if not the strongest arguments for God's existence.

Here's a few examples. Tealological argument from fine-tuning. I'm very happy to

admit right off the bat. This is the best argument that the theists have when it

comes to cosmology. Essentially it says why are conditions so optimal for life in

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