Ebook: The Design Argument

This element analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take, but its main focus in on two such arguments. The first concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. Creationists who advance this argument contend that evolution by natural selection can't be the right explanation. The second design argument- the argument from fine-tuning- begins with the fact that life could not exist in our universe if the constraints found in the laws of physics had values that differed more than a little from their actual values. Since probability is the main analytical tool used, the element provides a primer on probability theory.  Read more...