Does the Evidence for Our Universe's Fine-Tuning Mean Anything?

> He dismisses the idea of a divine Mind as not “scientific” (“It’s not all that different from saying ‘just because.’”).

The alternative is just as much of a 'just because'

David Bentley Hart's The Experience of God does a pretty good job of laying this out from a religious perspective: https://www.amazon.com/Experience-God-Being-Consciousness-Bl...

Unfortunately, the book is in some ways kind of a lengthy introduction to what it actually purports to be, but it does a needed job nevertheless.

Anyways, interesting about this Flew guy. Few people change their mind about anything--let alone core beliefs like this.

And I think where he actually landed also offers a pretty good example of what should be obvious: that religion as we know it should not be equated with belief in God, and that one can easily believe in some form of "God" without accepting the postulates of various religions.

> Why is a divine Mind not “scientific” if the evidence points in that direction?

Because 1) begging the question / assuming the conclusion is NEVER scientific and 2) the fact that we evolved in a universe that happens to present the right conditions does not in any conceivable way amount to evidence that anything “tuned” those conditions, it only amounts to evidence that life could find a way to exist and adapt to the conditions present.

Is it pretty damned amazing that we are here? Absolutely. Does that imply something planned us? Nope.