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Again, a straw man from one who doesn't grasp the science of the fine-tuning problem and the anthropic principle. If our universe is the one and only role of the dice, the odds that it has the elemental chemistry and astronomical structure to support life is a staggeringly improbable state of affairs via a purely natural mechanism as there is nothing intrinsically necessary about the laws of physics producing the initial conditions and constants of a life-supporting universe . The overwhelming number of the leading lights of science, theists and atheists alike, agree that our universe is finely tuned for life and that if it were the one and only universe to have existed it would be very unlikely to exist as it does via a natural mechanism! Dawkins, for example, acknowledges this. Not only does he acknowledge the fine-tuning problem, but holds to the weak anthropic principle.
Do you know why?
Hint: The fine-tuning problem and the fine-tuned argument for God's existence are not the same thing. The fine-tuned argument for God's existence and the strong anthropic principle only come to fore if our universe is the one and only to have ever existed.
sean carroll...versus...
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"that quantum physicist just DOESNT UNDERSTAND how we use HIS PHYSICS incorrectly to pwoov gawd!!! duhhh!!!"
I don’t know any scientist that doesn’t recognize the fine tunning of the universe necessary for the evolution of consciousness to become a reality. Quite a few things have to go right.
sean carroll...versus...
ringtone on the internet who writes walls of text in lieu of debating face 2 face
"that quantum physicist just DOESNT UNDERSTAND how we use HIS PHYSICS incorrectly to pwoov gawd!!! duhhh!!!"
Many in the scientific community have some serious issues with the likes of Carroll and Krauss because of their tendency to mislead and overstate. But in any event, his argument is not with me, really, though I concur with the following. His argument is with the following: Dawkins, Hawking, Rees, Tipler, Deutch, Barnes, Scania, Davies, Hoyle, Mlodinow, Vilenkin, Weinberg, Barrow and many, many others. What part of he's in the minority don't you understand? What part of the fine-tuning problem is not about what kind of life can exist, but what kind of universe can exist?
You have faith that this universe will continue after you expire. That it isn't a construct purely for your own ego, or, indeed for mine.
You have faith that the subjective isn't identical to the objective. Your belief in your own ego is incredible!
Keep creating that reality or focusing on that which you desire . . . or . . . let it go.
I don’t know any scientist that doesn’t recognize the fine tunning of the universe necessary for the evolution of consciousness to become a reality. Quite a few things have to go right.
But no one can argue that the potential for the universe producing intelligence wasn’t allowed for by the laws of nature.
So the necessary argument moves to is this potentially on purpose? Was it intentional? Or was it unintentional?
To answer that question we must study what was created.
So I don’t know what one would call this argument. I call it a logical argument.
Exactly. By any objective measure the conditions in the universe are down right inhospitable for life. And yet the universe has not only produced life it has produced intelligent life.I don’t know any scientist that doesn’t recognize the fine tunning of the universe necessary for the evolution of consciousness to become a reality. Quite a few things have to go right.
But no one can argue that the potential for the universe producing intelligence wasn’t allowed for by the laws of nature.
So the necessary argument moves to is this potentially on purpose? Was it intentional? Or was it unintentional?
To answer that question we must study what was created.
So I don’t know what one would call this argument. I call it a logical argument.
Exactly! The emboldened is ultimately the real issue, that and the number of chances nature may have had if we assume a strictly natural mechanism.
I know of a few others, four in total if we count Carroll. But Carroll is being a snake here, mistating the problem, so it's not clear to me what he really believes. I find it very difficult to believe that he really doesn't understand that the problem goes to the kind of universe that can exist for life to arise in the first place, not about what kind of life can exist. Another is the late Stenger, but he was a second-rate physicist and virulent atheist, a hack, whom Barnes took to task for his less than forthcoming "science":
https://www.cambridge.org/core/serv...-of-the-universe-for-intelligent-life-div.pdf
He got rich selling sensational science to atheists.
The other two, Harnik and Adams, are actually respectable sorts. They've done some great work via simulations showing that the range of habitable universes is wider than we thought. They're more skeptical than others, really, so I guess they don't really count either. The fine-tuning/anthropic principle proper doesn’t assert that our universe is uniquely life-permitting, but rather that life-permitting universes are rare in the set of possible universes, i.e., that the habitable range of the continuum is very narrow (finely tuned). Their approach was to vary several of the values of the constants and conditions simultaneously. We've got computers now that can crunch trillions of calculations a second. The results yield universes that are less dynamic than ours, but arguably habitable. On the other hand, they had to adjust certain other parameters relative to the randomly chosen changes to make the models work. Fine-tuning, anyone? But in any event, it must be acknowledge that the range is wider than previously thought.
By the way, other scientists who hold that the universe is fine-tuned for life regardless the mechanism: Carr, Carter, Ellis, Greene, Guth, Harrison, Linde, Page, Penrose, Polkinghorne, Sandage, Smolin, Susskind, Tegmark, Wheeler, Wilczek. Like the others in the above, they are all atheists or agnostics who hold to a multiverse or some kind of cyclical universe.
Yeah. And Carroll is mistating the fine-tuned argument for God's existence!
It does not come to the fore unless our universe is the one and only to have ever existed, and his gibberish about how theism is not well-defined is sheer, materialistic slogan speak, a metaphysically driven opinion, asserted as if it were a fact. Further he's conflating the fine-tuned problem of the universe and the fine-tuned argument for God's existence, jumping back and forth between their varying applications without alerting his audience. He's also misleading the audience when he claims that "we don't know if the universe is fine tuned." Bull! He is in the minority. The vast majority of scientists hold that it is finely tuned. That doesn't mean that the majority of scientists hold to the fine-tuned argument for God's existence, as, for one thing, many hold that our universe is a multiverse. Finally, if his counter is to say that the theological ramifications of the strong anthropic principle for "a one and only universe" is ultimately irrelevant if we live in a multiverse, then I say to him, produce the incontrovertible evidence that the universe did not necessarily begin to exist.
EDIT: He's also mistating the fine-tuned problem of the universe. Once again, it's not about what life can exist. It's about what kind of universe can exist to support life in the first place! He's knows better, and he knows damn well that he's misleading the audience to win an argument.
Yeah. And Carroll is mistating the fine-tuned argument for God's existence!
It does not come to the fore unless our universe is the one and only to have ever existed, and his gibberish about how theism is not well-defined is sheer, materialistic slogan speak, a metaphysically driven opinion, asserted as if it were a fact. Further he's conflating the fine-tuned problem of the universe and the fine-tuned argument for God's existence, jumping back and forth between their varying applications without alerting his audience. He's also misleading the audience when he claims that "we don't know if the universe is fine tuned." Bull! He is in the minority. The vast majority of scientists hold that it is finely tuned. That doesn't mean that the majority of scientists hold to the fine-tuned argument for God's existence, as, for one thing, many hold that our universe is a multiverse. Finally, if his counter is to say that the theological ramifications of the strong anthropic principle for "a one and only universe" is ultimately irrelevant if we live in a multiverse, then I say to him, produce the incontrovertible evidence that the universe did not necessarily begin to exist.
EDIT: He's also mistating the fine-tuned problem of the universe. Once again, it's not about what life can exist. It's about what kind of universe can exist to support life in the first place! He's knows better, and he knows damn well that he's misleading the audience to win an argument.
Nonsense. The vast majority of scientists do not hold that the universe is “finely tuned”.
This is, as usual, another of your specious, unsupported claims. Your statement may be referring to charlatans at the various creation ministries or perhaps at Harun Yahya, but it’s obvious that scientists working in the relevant fields of science do not hold the religious view you want to impose on them.
Yeah. And Carroll is mistating the fine-tuned argument for God's existence!
It does not come to the fore unless our universe is the one and only to have ever existed, and his gibberish about how theism is not well-defined is sheer, materialistic slogan speak, a metaphysically driven opinion, asserted as if it were a fact. Further he's conflating the fine-tuned problem of the universe and the fine-tuned argument for God's existence, jumping back and forth between their varying applications without alerting his audience. He's also misleading the audience when he claims that "we don't know if the universe is fine tuned." Bull! He is in the minority. The vast majority of scientists hold that it is finely tuned. That doesn't mean that the majority of scientists hold to the fine-tuned argument for God's existence, as, for one thing, many hold that our universe is a multiverse. Finally, if his counter is to say that the theological ramifications of the strong anthropic principle for "a one and only universe" is ultimately irrelevant if we live in a multiverse, then I say to him, produce the incontrovertible evidence that the universe did not necessarily begin to exist.
EDIT: He's also mistating the fine-tuned problem of the universe. Once again, it's not about what life can exist. It's about what kind of universe can exist to support life in the first place! He's knows better, and he knows damn well that he's misleading the audience to win an argument.
So apparently Hollie believes that no matter how the universe is tuned life would not only exist but would adapt. Brilliant.