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    Challenges→Fine-tuning provides more reason to expect a life-permitting universe under omni-theism than under source physicalism

    Robin Collins and others treat 'life-permitting ranges' as narrow relative to an unspecified broader range, but without a principled sample space, likelihood comparisons between omni-theism and physicalism are ill-formed.

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    Ill-formed(describes why the comparison between the two worldviews fails without a proper framework)
    Logically broken or meaningless; like trying to answer a question that doesn't actually make sense.
    Life-permitting ranges(describes the specific conditions needed for life to exist)
    The narrow set of values that physical constants (like gravity or electromagnetism) must fall within for life to be possible; if they were even slightly different, the universe couldn't support living things.
    Likelihood comparisons(used to evaluate whether theism or physicalism better explains fine-tuning)
    A way of weighing which explanation is more probable or reasonable by calculating how likely different theories would produce the evidence we observe.
    Robin Collins(named as a key figure in the fine-tuning debate)
    A contemporary philosopher known for arguing that the fine-tuning of the universe (how precisely calibrated physical constants need to be for life to exist) provides evidence for God's existence.

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    Sample space(a mathematical concept needed to make fair comparisons)
    In probability and statistics, the complete set of all possible outcomes you're considering; for example, the sample space for a coin flip is 'heads' or 'tails'.
    omni-theism(Used as the target hypothesis being challenged by probabilistic atheistic arguments)
    The belief in the existence of an omni-God (a God possessing all-encompassing attributes such as omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence)
    physicalism(The target position that the knowledge argument is designed to refute)
    The thesis that physical theory can in principle account for everything there is to know about the world

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