Evidence Emerges That Laws of Physics Are Not Fine-Tuned For Life

GA. So now we have the Mildly Misanthropocentric Cosmological Principle. A just high enough value of the cosmological constant so life can exist without different species crowding each other out.

I like your grass analogy.

".. The observed constant is somewhat off of that optimum value, therefore, no omnipotent being is responsible for the observed universe .."

No, the argument isn't being used to disprove God/s but rather to disprove one of the arguments being used to support divine creation. There's a subtle difference.

I doubt the God/s debate will ever be settled using rational argument.

GA , Anon ...

... in spite of the fact that I am still somewhat befuddled, trying to determine whether you actually meant to say "presupposes" instead of "precludes" ... ?

Omnipotence means what it means! He is neither bound to "set" the rules such that they make sense to us, nor such that they achieve the 'perfection' or 'optimization' that *WE* see as right and proper. It was (argue as some may) His "plan" after all.

The idea that the cosmological constant, being a slightly "negative" for more opportunity of life, is based on what? If the CC, being slightly positive as we know it currently, leads to the detriment of life forming, how can we evaluate a slightly negative CC? It seems that a lot of assumptions have been declared as fact, and that is not science, but supposition.

But both faith, and evolution (in all it's forms) are based on supposition. Only faith, though, admits that it IS faith.

And as noted by implication above (I doubt we'll ever prove God by logic), regardless of one's beliefs, the Bible does say the "For by Grace are ye saved, THROUGH faith, and that NOT of yourselves. It is a gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8).

Note, then, that for those of us who believe we are saved, LOGIC is, in this instance, a failure. If God could be proved by logic, it would not be of faith, and, IPSO FACTO, then would not be the salvation we seek.

I don't try to prove God, and wonder why those who wish Him to be non-existent waste so much time and energy trying to disprove Him.