I recently got in an online debate about wether or not our universe is fine tuned for life to evolve. This is usually called the Anthropic Principle, which means that the universe was made for life (or specifically for human life). This argument can be used both for people who think that a deity made the universe as we know see it for human life, or that a deity fine tuned the initial parameters of our universe so that life could evolve within the universe. In general, when the argument is used in a debate, it is said quite simply: I believe, as do many people, that the physical ...