{"id":229683,"date":"2026-01-23T23:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/the-fine-tuning-argument-is-terrible-sean-carroll"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:09:12","slug":"the-fine-tuning-argument-is-terrible-sean-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/the-fine-tuning-argument-is-terrible-sean-carroll","title":{"rendered":"The Fine-Tuning Argument is Terrible \u2014 Sean Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gRp0ent1Z0A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch the full episode on Substack: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/alexoconnor\/p\/sean-carroll-what-science-can-and?r=2cuwzz&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/alexoconnor\/p\/sean-carroll-wha\u2026nt=overlay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Come to my UK tour: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.co.uk\/alex-o-connor-tickets-adp1641612\">https:\/\/www.livenation.co.uk\/alex-o-connor-tickets-adp1641612<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to my PayPal (thank you): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypal.me\/cosmicskeptic\">http:\/\/www.paypal.me\/cosmicskeptic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>- VIDEO NOTES<\/p>\n<p>Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist and professor of natural philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>- CONNECT<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/the-fine-tuning-argument-is-terrible-sean-carroll\">Continue reading \u201cThe Fine-Tuning Argument is Terrible \u2014 Sean Carroll\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the full episode on Substack: https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/alexoconnor\/p\/sean-carroll-wha\u2026nt=overlay. Come to my UK tour: https:\/\/www.livenation.co.uk\/alex-o-connor-tickets-adp1641612. To donate to my PayPal (thank you): http:\/\/www.paypal.me\/cosmicskeptic. \u2014 VIDEO NOTES Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist and professor of natural philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. \u2014 CONNECT Continue reading \u201cThe Fine-Tuning Argument is Terrible \u2014 Sean Carroll\u201d | &gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}