DOES FINE-TUNING NEED AN EXPLANATION?
Contemporary physics has shown that the universe is fine-tuned for life i.e. of all the possible waysphysical laws, initial conditions and constants of physics could have been configured, only an extremelysmall range is capable of supporting life. Some theists have argued that fine-tuning can be used as apremise in a design argument for the existence of God, while some other scientists and philosophershave argued that fine-tuning provides an evidence for a multiverse, a hypothesis which claim that thereis more than one universe. Both approaches assume that fine-tuning require some kind of explanation.Despite the initial appeal some philosophers and scientists have denied the need of explanation for thefine-tuning. They either deny that the universe is fine-tuned for existence or else think that we shouldnot be surprised that universe is fine-tuned, and therefore should not search for explanation. In thispaper we analyse some of these claims and try to show that neither of them succeeds in demonstratingthat fine-tuning does not need an explanation.
