it’s interesting, I had a religious apologist, in another forum, peddling “fine tuning”, who claimed it was “fortuitous” that life had emerged, against vanishingly small odds.
I pointed out that it was entirely subjective to call it fortuitous, not an objective fact, as he suggesting. Odd how perception differ really. Beyond that of course his argument never went beyond an argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacy, or the old “what else could have caused the universe against massive odds, but intelligence”, and a some false equivalence fallacies, where he misrepresented the scientific term fine tuning, which describes entirely natural material characteristic of the universe, with his subjective religious belief, that the universe was fine tuned by a creator deity. He also used another false equivalence, with variations of Paley’s watchmaker fallacy, comparing the universe to things we know are designed and created, as we have overwhelming objective evidence.
He did not take it well, when his fallacious arguments, and subjective claims were met with rational objections. Not at all well, the fur started to fly, so yes, your point is well made about people clinging more doggedly to beliefs, when they are emotionally invested in them.
Oh, and welcome to AR…