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Denyse O'Leary
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October 10, 2021
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
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At Mind Matters News: If extraterrestrials didn’t fine tune Earth, maybe there is a God

Denyse O'Leary
October 10, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
In the face of a grab bag of ideas like creation by ETs or countless universes (some run by cats), why does the idea of a Creator seem far out? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 4, 2021
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At Mind Matters News: Weak Anthropic Principle? Not an explanation but a tautology!

Denyse O'Leary
October 4, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Egnor: The Weak Anthropic Principle, which is widely held by atheists, is meaningless: Only in a universe that permits the existence of intelligent beings can intelligent beings exist — i.e., only a universe with intelligent beings can be a universe with intelligent beings. The Weak Anthropic Principle is a tautology. And a tautology is not an explanation. It’s merely a sentence in which the predicate is the same as the subject. It’s meaningless. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 26, 2021
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Cosmology, Fine tuning
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At Mind Matters News: Was the universe created for life forms to live in? How would we know?

Denyse O'Leary
September 26, 2021
Cosmology, Fine tuning
Daniel Díaz: There is a constant attached to the gravitational law. And in that gravitational law, that constant is producing some effect. Were the constant too small, then stars could not be formed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 21, 2021
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Can there be a general theory for fine-tuning?

Denyse O'Leary
September 21, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Swedish mathematician Ola Hössjer, who is working on a general theory of fine tuning, sees the beauty of mathematics in the fact that seemingly unrelated features in cosmology and biology can be modeled using similar concepts. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 28, 2021
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Books of interest, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Privileged Address: An excerpt from Neil Thomas’s Taking Leave of Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
August 28, 2021
Books of interest, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Neil Thomas: Through the lens of a celestial telescope, it is true, one can see little but the unfeeling immensity of that unremittingly hostile universe invoked by [Bertrand] Russell, but if we look around us here on Earth we can see a planet which seems entirely discontinuous with the rest of the observable cosmos and abounding in a host of benign phenomena so numerous that they tend to go largely unnoticed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2021
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Atheism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
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Jerry Coyne vs Ross Douthat on science-based belief in God

Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2021
Atheism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
Coyne makes a virtue of the fact that he finds typical, widespread points of view hard to comprehend. Uncommon Descent to Jerry Coyne: Come in Coyne, are you reading us?: Buckle that seatbelt, man! This is the BIG roller coaster, Flyin’ Annie. Not the little ones you are used to. Over and out. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 29, 2021
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Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Do antimatter stars anti-twinkle?

Denyse O'Leary
April 29, 2021
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
Before we worry too much about the fate of the Standard Model of the universe, it’s worth noting that we are also told that it would be “extremely difficult” to prove that a star is really an anti-star. It’s mainly just an intriguing idea at this point. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 25, 2021
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Hitchhiker’s Guide author’s “puddle” argument against fine-tuning — and a response

Denyse O'Leary
April 25, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
It's a good argument. But in reality, any argument against fine-tuning will be accepted, whether it makes sense or not. It is only the defenders of a rational universe who need to make sense. And that’s not for the other guy; it’s for you. Read More ›