The fine-tuning argument in Islam

Fine-tuning is not a classical Islamic argument — kalam theologians preferred arguments from the beginning of the universe and its possibility rather than arguments from its precise parameters. But the Qur'an repeatedly invokes the order and proportion of creation (ayat, 'signs') as evidence of a creator: Surah 67:3, 'You do not see in the creation of the Most Merciful any inconsistency.' Modern Muslim thinkers have found fine-tuning a natural extension of this traditional rhetoric.

Among contemporary Muslim popularizers, Hamza Tzortzis, Sami Ameri, and Subboor Ahmad have made the fine-tuning argument a regular feature of their apologetics, drawing freely on Robin Collins's Bayesian framing. The argument also appears in Harun Yahya's (Adnan Oktar's) vast popular literature, though that source is viewed with suspicion by many Muslim scholars. In academic theology, Mehdi Golshani and Seyyed Hossein Nasr have engaged with fine-tuning from within a broader Islamic philosophy-of-science framework that is generally friendly to design reasoning.

The philosophical objections to fine-tuning apply equally in an Islamic context — the multiverse response, the probability-measure problem, and the inference from tuned constants to a specifically personal God. Muslim defenders often add an additional argument: that the multiverse itself, if real, would also require explanation, which gets the theist back to something like the Kalam. Critics inside and outside the tradition note that the fine-tuning argument, whether Christian or Muslim, gets you at most to an intelligent designer — it does not pick out any specific revelation as the correct one.