The Anthropic Teleological Argument: Proving God's existance by means of Probability

The Anthropic Teleological Argument presented by L. Stafford Betty and Bruce Cordell simply states that because it is so improbable that our universe was randomly generated, there must have been an intelligent creator. Betty and Cordell use the calculations of many renowned physicists to show that our unique universe could not have existed if the slightest detail were any different than it in fact is. They use the anthropic principle to demonstrate the overwhelmingly low …showed first 75 words of 1179 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1179 total…do neither of these. They do not give the probability of a supreme creator nor do they actually try to prove the existence of God. Betty and Cordell's argument can be summed up simply as this: if not random creation, then creation by God. They use probabilities that show that perhaps our exact universe may be improbable but it is very probable that a different universe with different types of life could be formed randomly.