I. Greetings I'm Tom Gilson. Today on ID the future we hear Robert J Marks,

host of our sister podcast Mind Matters from the Walter Bradley Center for

Natural and Artificial Intelligence

in an international conversation with Ola Herser and Daniel Diaz on the question of fine

tuning. Dr Marks will take it from here.

Greetings, I'm your pronounced host

Rubber J Marks on this podcast of Mind Matters News.

Today on Mind Matters News, on the podcast, we're going to talk about fine tuning.

Scientists know the universe is finally tuned, for example, take the atheist, pronounced

atheist, Sir Fred Hoyle.

Hoyle was a great astronomer,

maybe known best for his pointing of the term Big Bang

to describe the beginning of the universe.

Hoyle did not at first believe the universe had a beginning and coined the term in a mocking way,

mocking the theory of the beginning of the universe.

He didn't like it, so he tried to make fun of it.

But nevertheless, Hoyle's term, his mocking term, stuck, and today we refer to the beginning of the

universe as physicists talk about it as the big bang.

Hoyle was also convinced, despite his beliefs,

that the science of the universe dictated

that it had to be fine tuned. In fact, most scientists knew there's

little controversy that the universe in terms of biology, chemistry, and the

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