A response to the puddle problem
I have been following the apologetics community on social media, and I have seen that channels like Capturing Christianity have been having discussions on Intelligent Design, and some detractors have been bringing up the “puddle problem” objection to intelligent design. I’m sure there are plenty of people who will be writing responses to this themselves, but I wanted to add my own two cents to the problem. The puddle problem is a response to the Teleological Fine Tuning Argument for the existence of God. It says that humans are merely products (puddles) of the natural forces of the universe around us (the hole we find ourselves in). It is presented as an alternative to the claim that the universe is fine tuned for life by an outside mind. I may be misrepresenting, but it seems to me like the puddle problem totally misrepresents the Teleological argume...