ABSTRACT
Contemporary cosmological design arguments consist broadly of two main types: the Life Support Argument (LSA), which urges that the relatively local features of the cosmos (our Galaxy, the Sun, the Earth, the Moon) are unusually hospitable to life, and the Fine-Tuning Argument (FTA), which takes its cue from the fact that a multitude of physical constants must apparently take precise values or stand in exacting ratios to each other in order to make our universe as a whole hospitable to organic life. The apparent “fine-tuning” of the constants suggests to the advocates of the FTA that the Universe was itself designed with carbon-based life in mind.
