complete the reading and answer question
1. Complete the readings:
a. Roger White’s “The Argument from Cosmological Fine-Tuning”
b. J. L. Mackie’s “Evil and Omnipotence”
2. Answer the reading questions attached
When you are finished with 1-2, upload answers to the reading questions to Canvas before the deadline. (If you would, please upload them in pdf or jpeg format if you are using a Mac.)
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20190224085405reading_questions_white_and_mackie_2
20190224085404mackie_evil_and_omnipotence
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The Fine Tuning of the Universe
The term fine-tuning is used by the White to characterize keen dependences of properties or facts on the values of some parameters. The whites have identified technological devices as paradigmatic examples of fine-tuning of the universe. The fanciful story is in some respects similar to the view of most modern physical cosmologists. The essential white calls inference to the best explanation tells that the universe is fine-tuned for life.
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