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The universe’s beautiful fine-tuning leaves atheism facing its biggest question

We all now face this burning question screaming for an answer: If our universe is not a coincidence, how do we explain it?

By Michael Guillén Fox News

Published September 12, 2026 9:00am EDT

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Years ago, at Los Angeles’ Getty Museum, I was given the rare privilege of a personal, after-hours tour of Leonardo da Vinci’s artwork. Standing alone in the quiet, dimly lit gallery, mere inches from a sepia-colored sketch of a human face composed of several dozen perfectly placed wavy lines, I knew without a doubt I was in the presence of pure genius.

After years of being an atheist for whom science was god and the cosmos was a miraculous accident, I now know with equal certainty our universe, too, is a work of pure genius.

Why is that?

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