Dr Craig people send me articles they send you articles suggestions for

podcast and we people send me articles they send you articles suggestions for

podcast and we get a lot from a gentleman named Jeffrey Williams he's got a blog

called Too Late for the Gods he's got one that I thought that we'd look at here called the

illusion of fine-tuning and he right off the bat accuses the arguments

for intelligent design of fine-tuning in particular of being a tautology.

So I think right off the bat we should probably talk about what a tautology is.

Yes a tautology is something that's true by definition. So for example if

it is raining it is raining that's a tautology. So it's something of a surprise to see him making this claim.

I'm not sure he really understands the word. And so I'm pretty

unimpressed Kevin when he opens his blog by saying of all the fallacious arguments

for intelligent design, fine-tuning of the

time time, and the most obvious to anyone trained in logic.

Now, when you hear that kind of attitude, I think your skeptical antennae should immediately go up.

If you think that the argument for fine tuning is so obviously fallacious that anyone with any training and logic can recognize it,

then you've got to explain how these great physicists and philosophers have defended such

an argument in peer-reviewed journals and in academic books published by the top university publishing houses.

And one of the advantages of being in my home office here today is to show our readers, or our viewers some of these books.

For example, the Anthropic Cosmological Principal by John Barrow and Frank Tpler is a classic on the fine-tuning argument

written by two prominent physicists. The book universes by John Leslie is a great example of a

Canadian philosopher's rest of the fine-tuning argument and Leslie in particular

points out that the resort to the multiverse hypothesis is perhaps the best indication that the fine tuning really does

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