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Luke A. Barnes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy. His university medal from the University of Sydney helped him earn a scholarship to complete a PhD at the University of Cambridge. He has published papers in the field of galaxy formation and on the fine-tuning of the Universe for life. He has been invited to speak at the 2011 and 2015 St Thomas Summer Seminars in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, the University of California Summer School for the Philosophy of Cosmology, and numerous public lectures.

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A Thick Layer: A Fine-Tuned Critique of Arvin Ash

Arvin Ash is an engineer with a YouTube channel. He recently posted a video titled “Is God in Physics? Fine Tuning Scrutinized“. It gets almost everything wrong: history, philosophy, science, and fine-tuning. All quotes from the video, unless noted otherwise.

A. Motion in the heavens

Until 350 years ago, there was a distinct demarcation between what people observed on Earth and what people saw up

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	A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos by Geraint F. Lewis (Goodreads Author), Luke A. Barnes (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook: by Luke A. Barnes (Goodreads Author), Geraint F. Lewis (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The Middle Ages saw the establishment and advancement of the university, where every future physician, lawyer, and clergyman in Europe was required to learn logic, geometry, algebra, and astronomy, informed by a synthesis of the recently rediscovered Greek science and more modern thought. Isaac Newton (1642–1726), the greatest physicist of the scientific revolution (and arguably of all time), acknowledged his debt to his predecessors: If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
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“Galaxies aren’t the only astronomical objects with large redshifts. When the first telescopes that could detect radio waves were built, they discovered very bright, very compact sources in the sky. This is odd, because if you see a single point of light in the sky, it’s usually a star. But stars usually don’t emit a lot of radio waves. These mysterious sources of light were called quasi-stellar objects, or quasars for short.”
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