Cain: And so?
Abel: God is responsible for this fine-tuning.
Cain: How do you know?
Abel: Because our holy book says that God created the universe so he set the cosmological constants to allow for life to occur.
Cain: Even if your holy book says so, how do you know that it is God?
Abel: It has to be God. Who else has the ability to do so?
Cain: Ok maybe it is God but who’s God?
Abel: Of course, it is our God. Only our telling of God is correct.
Fallacies in critical thought
1) Is our universe really fine-tuned for life? (As much as the universe seems fine-tuned for life, it also seems fine-tuned to deny life. By assuming that our universe is fine-tuned for life, this fallacy is “Begging the question”.)
2) Are cosmological constants really fine-tuned? (This commits the problem of Ad Ignoratium. We do not know for certain if cosmological constants are fine-tuned. For now, we can ony say that cosmological constants seems fine-tuned for life.)
3) God is responsible for this fine-tuning. (This is an unfalsifiable statement: the existence of God and its hand in the setting of the cosmological constants cannot be falsified.)
4) Because our holy book says that God created the universe so he set the cosmological constants to allow for life to occur. (this is circular reasoning)
5) Cain: Ok maybe it is God but who’s God? (this is a good question to prevent equivocation. There are many conceptions of God.)
6) Abel: Of course, it is our God.
Abel: Only our telling of God is correct. (this is unfalsifiable. No religion has proven its concept of God to be truer than others.)
Ultimately, the entire argument is not sound because it lacks (1) validity and (2) a true premise and commits many other fallacies in reasoning as shown above.
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