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Comment on Comment on “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God” by Professor Krauss Objects | Uncommon Descent
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Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:46:42 +0000https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/?p=2653#comment-14339[…] Barnes of the Sydney Institute of Astronomy (University of Sydney), who, in a blog article titled, Comment on “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God”, excoriates Krauss’s letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal (December 26, 2014), […]
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Comment on Of Nothing by Winnie R
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Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:59:20 +0000https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/?p=1445#comment-14336Good shaare
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Comment on Fine-Tuning and the Sharp-Shooter Fallacy by dimwoo
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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:19:00 +0000https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/?p=5093#comment-14334In reply to objectleftf69b2bf99c.
All you’re telling me is that you refuse to consider any explanations that are not naturalistic/materialistic. That’s a dogmatic position, not a logical one. The fine-tuning evidence shows that the likelihood of a naturalistic i.e. randomly-generated universe being capable of the kind of complex chemistry that supports life is staggeringly low, yet here we are. Given that naturalism cannot explain it, what alternative explanation would you propose?
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Comment on Fine-Tuning and the Sharp-Shooter Fallacy by objectleftf69b2bf99c
https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/fine-tuning-and-the-sharp-shooter-fallacy/#comment-14333
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:36:28 +0000https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/?p=5093#comment-14333@dimwoo My objection is you can not pull out of thin air an invention and then claim it is a hypothesis or a theory that we should take seriously. For example – a person is born with a unique ability say in music. Should we entertain the hypothesis/theory that a music angel gave him the ability ? A hypothesis should meet certain criteria. What are the criteria ? There may be disputes in the literature, but a music angel would not qualify, or if did it would be very low on the totem pole. I think gods would fall into the same category. I think is preposterous for people to speculate about a potential supernatural being, and then provide him with certain mind boggling traits and then claim it is a hypothesis worth considering. After doing that, they then speculate on what this invented supernatural being with invented traits may or may not do, with probabilities no less !
Anyway I am not sure I can say more and nice chatting.
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Comment on Fine-Tuning and the Sharp-Shooter Fallacy by dimwoo
https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/fine-tuning-and-the-sharp-shooter-fallacy/#comment-14331
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:34:19 +0000https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/?p=5093#comment-14331In reply to objectleftf69b2bf99c.
Hi, thanks for you replies. I don’t pretend to understand Bayes Theorem but I don’t understand your objection to T (theism) either – you simply assert it is an invalid hypothesis without saying why. The argument is simply that if naturalism (i.e. chance) is an extremely unlikely explanation for the apparent fine-tuning of the universe, then the explanation is Something Else that’s isn’t naturalism i.e. some kind of super-natural agency. Call it theism or deism, or hyper-dimensional alien super-intelligences if you like.
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Comment on Fine-Tuning and the Sharp-Shooter Fallacy by objectleftf69b2bf99c
https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/fine-tuning-and-the-sharp-shooter-fallacy/#comment-14330
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:20:52 +0000https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/?p=5093#comment-14330@dimwoo pray tell how we calculate p(L|T B) ? This value is a complete unknown. You can not just assert it has a higher probability than p(L/NB). Again see my much older comments. Thanks
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Comment on Fine-Tuning and the Sharp-Shooter Fallacy by objectleftf69b2bf99c
https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/fine-tuning-and-the-sharp-shooter-fallacy/#comment-14329
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:16:40 +0000https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/?p=5093#comment-14329@dimwoo First thank you for the comment addressed I think to me. Please read the altercockerjewishatheist (blog by that name) I think he finds a fatal flaw in FTA. Anyway, I think ACJA’s post accepts “a randomly-generated naturalistic universe is vanishingly unlikely to be life-supporting”. Usually a hypothesis/theory must meet certain criteria to be considered. I dont think theism is even a valid theory or hypothesis because it does not qualify as a theory or hypothesis, It just something pulled out of thin air. Anyway, also see my much older comments regarding FTA. I do not think you can bootstrap from the observation of life in our Universe to Theism.
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Comment on Fine-Tuning and the Sharp-Shooter Fallacy by dimwoo
https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/fine-tuning-and-the-sharp-shooter-fallacy/#comment-14327
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:47:13 +0000https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/?p=5093#comment-14327You can’t rule out theism by fiat. The argument is perfectly intelligible: a randomly-generated naturalistic universe is vanishingly unlikely to be life-supporting, therefore given that there’s only one universe and it is life-supporting then a non-natural or supernatural explanation for its origin is highly probable.
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