The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us

by Victor J. Stenger

Book Overview

A number of authors have noted that if some physical parameters were slightly changed, the universe could no longer support life, as we know it. This implies that life depends sensitively on the physics of our universe. Does this "fine-tuning" of the universe suggest that a creator god intentionally calibrated the initial conditions of the universe such that life on earth and the evolution of humanity would eventually emerge? In his in-depth and highly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616144432
• ISBN13: 9781616144432
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"