The 'Fine tuning' argument

Darwinism is sometimes thought to eliminate the question of design in nature. But we can ask 'How is evolution by naural selection possible?'. It didn't have to be possible - perhaps the universe could have been organised in such a way that evolution and life would be impossible. So the appearance of design needs a further explanation. For example: perhaps God set up the universe so that life evolves by natural selection.

This argument has been given support by recent work in cosmology - the study of the 'cosmos' or universe as a whole. Cosmologists have argued that the conditions needed for life to come into existence are incredibly improbable. As far as we understand, life needs planets; and planets need stars. But the universe needn't have contained strs. In fact, if anything about the beginnings of the universe [the Big Bang] or the laws of…