AS10: Disdain for the Religious?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2014
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Thomas and David read your comments! In fact, they were so thought provoking that they sparked a conversation worthy of its own episode.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Okay, so we had a few comments we wanted to go through today and David, how about you |
| 0:36.8 | tackle the first one? |
| 0:37.8 | Great, so this is a comment on atheistically speaking by Darcy. This is a comment relating to an older episode of |
| 0:45.2 | ours, the William Lane Craig episode. So the comment reads, on the fine-tuning |
| 0:50.4 | argument William Lane Craig misses at least two possibilities, the multiverse, which you alluded to, and the fact that the universe isn't actually fine tuned. |
| 0:59.0 | The second one sounds a little off, but it is essentially the conclusion if you consider that you can |
| 1:04.3 | you can't change one variable while holding the others constant and result in a viable life |
| 1:09.7 | containing universe. But you can change all of the variables at once to find a new equilibrium where life is possible. |
| 1:17.0 | This is Victor Stinger's argument, I believe. |
| 1:20.0 | If the universe could have fallen into any one of a vast array of different configurations like this, the fine-tuning argument becomes less persuasive. |
| 1:28.0 | Not to mention that we don't currently know enough about fundamental physics to know if the variables are independent in such a way |
| 1:35.8 | that if one has a certain value, then the others must have values that fall in a certain range. |
| 1:42.0 | Another point, though not an argument against fine-tuning per se is simply, |
| 1:46.0 | do you really think the universe is fine-tuned to be comfortable for life? |
| 1:50.0 | Have you seen the universe? |
| 1:51.0 | We are restricted to a certain habitable bands of a single planet. |
| 1:55.5 | Go anywhere else, and we died pretty much instantly. |
| 1:59.0 | This is a universe, an all-powerful being came up with for us? |
| 2:02.3 | Are you kidding? He's all powerful, right? I call |
| 2:05.4 | this the argument from Are you a moron or argumentum at Stoltis S. |
| 2:09.7 | Yeah, okay, I actually thought of a couple things. |
| 2:13.0 | One thing I also didn't talk about then because, you know, we were, we've been talking |
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