They are repetitive in their statements to attempt to prove an idea that isn’t sufficient.
While you study the objection of this argument you can easily refute it with different scenarios that question the reasoning behind it. Those who hold to this objection have misunderstood the argument of design in general. The premise for the argument of design is not that we observe the universe to be fit for habitation but rather that we seek to explain what we observe. I would think it is fair to respond with the sharpshooter scenario given by Groothuis.
Basically you are standing before a firing squad of carefully trained veteran shooters. They are told to shoot at you for crimes committed against their country. You hear shots fired and when you open your eyes you feel no pain and there are no …show more content…
Logically there is powerful and vastly intelligent designer who created the universe. In addition, the Designer who has fine-tuned this universe couldn’t be impersonal because he has created a universe in which man can sustain oneself and succeed; therefore God is not an impersonal God. In Scripture we read in Luke 12:7, He knows the very strands of hairs on our head. In Psalm 139:13 we read that He has knitted you together in your mothers womb. Lastly, in Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” At the end of the day we can set aside the mathematics of the fine-tuned universe, look at the creation around us, believing that it is probable that an personal Being has created all this. A very personal Being set this earth into motion for His pleasure using each one of us as tools in His