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Originally Posted by Nafi
A religious answer
http://www.quran434.com/Does-God-Exist.pdf
A conventional scientific answer
The laws of physics (gravity, strong nuclear force etc) are so fine-tuned, that even a small .001% change would mean life would be impossible.
It seems logical that there was a fine tuner, who designed the natural laws that shaped our universe.
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Life as WE know it.
Universe is not that greatly "fine-tuned" though, buddy. Life is highly improbably everywhere else, and it is by chance that we have life here on Earth. Besides, this "fine-tuning" holds now, in this narrowest slice of time. But try to propose the same thing a some millions of years later, when the sun's energy is dissipating, or the "big-chill" from universal expansion is kicking in. Life would be improbable then, wouldn't it? Universe is constantly going towards chaos, so these constants are also changing.
Have you ever heard of the "God of the Gaps" argument? Basically, God is a glue that can seal any part of an argument with holes. Just because we can't explain this "fine-tuning" now doesn't mean there's a dude with a bunch of knobs controlling everything. Not all scientists agree to this fine-tuning, and even if they did, our knowledge of physics is so little that we don't even know what we don't know.
A believer doesn't need physical evidence of God's existence. In fact, that is the very antithesis of a believer.