Theists don't have reasoned explanations. God did it isn't a reasonable explanation. The other thing is that you haven't described how fine tuning is even a problem. So what that changing certain values leads to different results? Shouldn't that be expected? If I have an equation for how far a baseball will travel if I throw it at a one speed at one angle why shouldn't I expect the results to change if I change the speed or the angle? From the perspective of the baseball working yourself backwards through time you'd conclude that there is only one speed and one angle that could have landed you in this exact spot. And? If you had landed somewhere else you'd be calculating those values instead and coming to the same conclusion. Anyway here's a pretty good breakdown of why theism is a shitty theory for explaining anything.
Another excellent video. I would love to see that guy debate Haisch or any leading theist/astrophysicist. He talked really fast, and I don't want to keep replaying his presentation to correct his many wrong assertions.
1. Theists can have reasoned explanations. Like why is there evil or suffering, etc. Once God created the universe what happens happens, there is a certain randomness to how the universe evolves. God doesn't direct everything, but he sees everything, we have free will.
2. I like that he reminded me of my argument's a name..."fine tuning" of the universe. Fine tuning is the term given to the various parameters necessary for the universe to form and for life and consciousness to exist. He defeated his own argument when he said that if the universe never formed or beings composed of matter never developed consciousness that God could still have devised some other life forms. God could have, but "nature" could not have. He can't have it both ways. Bad parameters mean that the energy from a big bang gets wasted, no life, no consciousness, a dead mess of nothingness.
3. Cosmology isn't baseball. Steven Hawking described several parameters necessary for the universe to form, these had to be EXACTLY set or nothing would happen, the universe would be an empty space, devoid of sentient life or consciousness.
a. The speed at which the universe expands, necessary for star and planet formation
b. force of gravity and mass of the universe
c. force of electricity
d. size of the electric charge of an electron
e. ratio of masses of protons and electrons
f. the properties of light and quarks.
4. Your boy didn't "disprove" anything. Even though I liked his presentation, every one of his "points" can be shot down. He didn't "disprove" anything. The finely tuned universe is a FACT. That other universes with other parameters and life form exist is conjecture.
5. We both can't "prove" our thesis. Neither can we disprove any other.
6. Hawking in his last paper now says that Einstein is wrong.
Professor Stephen Hawking’s final theory on the origin of the universe, which he worked on in collaboration with Professor Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven, has
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