Atheist philosopher asks, it’s one thing to argue that the universe must be the product of some kind of intelligent agent; it’s quite something else to argue that this designer was all-knowing and omnipotent. Why is that a better hypothesis than that the designer was pretty smart but made a few mistakes?
Fine tuning
What if the moon disappeared?
In reality, the moon is one of those things that is special about Earth. It is in all likelihood biologically dead but because of it, we are not.
Molecular biologist Michael Denton is back!
Yes, him, the post-Darwinian. Remember Evolution: A Theory in Crisis? Nature’s Destiny?
Earth more precisely balanced in relation to sun than previously realized, new study claims
Thus, life-hosting exoplanets may be rarer than hoped.
Harvard astronomer: But maybe planets and life got started shortly after the Big Bang?
Why? Because that would make humans’ existence less special.
ID Foundations, 20: Caught between the Moon and New York City . . . the Privileged Planet thesis
Yesterday, News put up a post on the mysterious origins of the moon, invoking a classic song on being caught between the Moon and New York City. (Niwrad added a post here on the multiverse that is also worth seeing. Kindly bear in mind this earlier ID Foundations post on fine tuning.) Mahuna aptly comments: Read More…
Materialists: How can we get the universe to play out of tune?
Fine-tuning annoys us; we must show it isn’t true. So we have tried three strategies: Denial, nonsense, and the Copernican Principle – by far the best. So shove off, Kopernik. We are using your name, because it sells, NOT your ideas.
Heart of the conspiracy of teachers …
… to destroy students’ lives by teaching them to ask critical questions
Ours is a working moon Not just an ornament.
Ethan: It’s probably safe to say that vision would have evolved somewhat differently without the Moon, and that our nights would provide us with a wildly different world
Darwinists defend their faith on German campus by trying to shut out Oxford scholar
Just as you can’t build a church or ashram in Afghanistan, you can’t invite a non-Darwinian lecturer into Darwin’s temple.
“Controversial Astronomer” Guillermo Gonzalez Hired at Ball State U (Indiana)
There is nothing particularly controversial about exoplanet finder Gonzalez. The “controversy” was career atheists getting his tenure denied because he thinks the universe shows evidence of design. Most people do.
VIDEO: Guillermo Gonzalez lectures at UC Davis on the Privileged Planet thesis
WK has pointed out a vid sequence at YouTube, in which Dr Gonzalez lays out a good summary of the privileged planet thesis. Here is the start: [youtube inUlX0oWHbw] WK (what, you haven’t bookmarked and speed-dialled this blog yet? tut, tut! . . . ) summarises on points of significance for reflection: What is the Read More…
The ghost of William Paley says his piece in reply to Darwin and successors, on the commonly dismissed “watch found in the field” argument
Over at the KF blog, we have recently been entertaining some ghosts from our civilisation’s past, who are concerned about its present and now sadly likely future in light of the sad history recorded in Acts 27, of a sea voyage to Rome gone disastrously wrong because the voyagers were manipulated into venturing back out Read More…
ID Foundations, 17a: Footnotes on Conservation of Information, search across a space of possibilities, Active Information, Universal Plausibility/ Probability Bounds, guided search, drifting/ growing target zones/ islands of function, Kolmogorov complexity, etc.
(previous, here) There has been a recent flurry of web commentary on design theory concepts linked to the concept of functionally specific, complex organisation and/or associated information (FSCO/I) introduced across the 1970’s into the 1980’s by Orgel and Wicken et al. (As is documented here.) This flurry seems to be connected to the announcement of Read More…
VIDEO: Dr Guillermo Gonzalez surveys and briefly, simply explains several fine tuning cases behind the cosmological design inference
Dr Gonzalez — the Astrophysicist half of the Privileged Planet team — recently presented this lecture in which he surveys and briefly, simply explains several key fine tuning cases: [youtube M39BKwtUAyA#!] Again, useful food for thought. END PS: For more on fine tuning, cf VJT’s recent post on a new form of the inference here, Read More…