Title: Review of Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes, A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos,
Abstract: This new book by cosmologists Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes is another
entry in the long list of cosmology-centered physics books intended for a large
audience. While many such books aim at advancing a novel scientific theory, A
Fortunate Universe has no such scientific pretense. Its goals are to assert
that the universe is fine-tuned for life, to defend that this fact can
reasonably motivate further scientific inquiry as to why it is so, and to show
that the multiverse and intelligent design hypotheses are reasonable proposals
to explain this fine-tuning. This book's potential contribution, therefore,
lies in how convincingly and efficiently it can make that case.