fine-tuning argument

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argument
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈɑːɡ.jə.mənt/ us /ˈɑːrɡ.jə.mənt/
a disagreement, or the process ...
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Examples of fine-tuning argument

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To that extent, then, the value of the fine-tuningargument must be left open.
Now what must be recognized first is that in the fine-tuningargument k is not tautological.
Can the critic of the fine-tuningargument really resist this line of reply?
The common form of the fine-tuningargument, however, is not helped by this.
Now, the conditions for life are regarded as significant (in the same sense) by the fine-tuningargument.
The common version of the fine-tuningargument turns on the point that a number of necessary conditions for life are exceedingly improbable.
The situation is thus far analogous to that envisaged in the fine-tuningargument.
Now in considering this, one must first be clear what exactly k is taken to be in the case of the fine-tuningargument.
Without addressing the fine-tuningargument itself, there is still a problem here.
The upshot of section 4 is the point on which the fine-tuningargument turns, namely the very great improbability of a number of the necessary conditions of life.
The points we make about the tension between the fine-tuningargument and the biological-design argument arise for any view of confirmation that shares these three properties.
Such publications introduced concepts central to intelligent design, including "irreducible complexity" (a variant of the watchmaker analogy) and "specified complexity" (closely resembling a fine-tuningargument).
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It is indeed very difficult to quantify fine-tuning arguments for this sort of reason.
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