The Fine Tuning Argument: the critics strike back

At the end of of 2022, we released a film offering a reply to the fine tuning argument for God from leading physicists and philosophers of physics. This included both those that doubt there is any fine tuning and those that think there is but it can be solved by naturalistic means.
Subsequently astrophysicist Luke Barnes and philosopher Philip Goff offered their criticism of our criticism. Here we have assembled some of our original talking heads to review their criticism and offer a reply, defending the original position that fine tuning argument for God does not work.
Our original film can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ-fj3lqJ6M

Luke Barnes and Philip Goff’s reply is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYWkqOzUQ0&t=4036s

and we also recommend this video on Bayes theorem on the Majesty of Reason Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1MdtyLL3Uw&t=4423s

Our panel consists of Graham Priest , Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, well known for his work in logic especially non classical logic, the philosophy of mathematics and science and Buddhist philosophy.

Barry Loewer, who is the distinguished professor of philosophy at Rutgers University and director of the Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences. Barry specialises in philosophy of science and philosophical logic and the foundations of quantum mechanics, statical mechanics and probability .

Dan Linford who is one of the rising stars in the intersection of the philosophy of physics and philosophy of religion. He did his Phd in philosophy, under Paul Draper and had well known atheist cosmologist Sean Carroll and theistic fine tuning advocate Rob Collins on his thesis committee. He’s now doing a postdoc at the University of Nebraska and recently authored the book Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs with Joe Schmidt.

Niayesh Afshordi who is an astrophysicist and cosmologist , he’s Professor at the University fo Waterloo and faculty at the Permitter Institute for Theoretical physics. Niayesh won the silver medal at the world physics Olympiad as a teenager, won 1st prize the The Buchalter Cosmology Prize and works in a variety of fields from early universe cosmology, black holes, dark energy and quantum gravity
OUTLINE

0:00 Intro
3:26 Dan’s opening thoughts
6:43 Graham opening thoughts
11:23 Niayesh opening thoughts
13:33 Barry opening thoughts
20:51Bias
28:53 Changing the constants
40:21 Bayes theorem
41:36 Objective Bayesianism
51:13 Principle of Indifference
58:27 Infinities
1:00:00 Infinity again
1:06:00 Gob vs God
1:15:08 Probability of life given God
1:20:11 Does god need to fine tune?
1:24:10 Boltzmann Brains
1:32:57 Entropy
1:39:54 Cosmic Darwin

Видео The Fine Tuning Argument: the critics strike back канала Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil)