Welcome back to Reasonable Faith with Dr. Williamine Craig and we've been examining an interview that Neil

de Gras Tyson had with Dr. Sean Carroll. We're going to continue that in part

two today on Reasonable Faith Dr. William Lane Craig.

Now let's get to the answer. Sean Carroll talks about the fine-tuning

argument in addressing that question. Here's the clip.

But the fine-tuning argument for the existence of God is what I think is the best

argument for the existence of God. I also think it's a terrible argument but still it's the best of the ones that they have so I'm glad when they refer to it and the idea is that you look around the world the world in which we live, the universe we find ourselves in,

and you say there are features of this universe that need to be the way they are in order for life to exist. If they were different life

couldn't exist, but they easily could have been different, right? The things

like the amount of energy in empty space could have been so large that it would

rip planets apart before they ever formed.

But we seem to have gotten lucky.

We seem to find ourselves in a universe that allows for our existence and so the argument is I know why it's because God did it because God created a universe in which that's possible.

A very common counter argument is well it also could just be a multiverse right there could be many different parts of the universe and we just are finding ourselves in the hospitable one

But there's two things that you're not in all the others to have this conversation. Right. So they help play an explanatory role in accounting for why our universe looks so fine-tuned.

Well, it's the best argument, but it's terrible. Bill?

Yeah, I think it's good that Carol recognizes that the fine-tuning argument is the best argument.

This opinion, Kevin, is not unusual these days.

And far from being terrible, I have found that many non-theists think that the argument from

fine-tuning is a good argument for a cosmic designer.

In writing on this for my systematic philosophical theology,

in the most current literature,

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