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Reasonable Faith on the fine-tuning of the universe

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Useful refresher in the age of worry over Boltzmann brains:

See also: Copernicus, you are not going to believe who is using your name. Or how.

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As to the imagined 'universe generator' at the 4:15 minute mark of the video.,,, Although the multiverse itself is imagined to be an infinite number of parallel universes that occupy every conceivable 'naturalistic' possibility for a universe, exactly where does the imagined 'universe generator' itself reside and what is it made of? In order to create just our universe, the imagined 'universe generator' cannot be made of mass-energy, nor can it reside in space-time, since the imagined 'universe generator' created those things. Paul Davies puts the problem like this,,,
"The multiverse comes with a lot of baggage, such as an overarching space and time to host all those bangs, a universe-generating mechanism to trigger them, physical fields to populate the universes with material stuff, and a selection of forces to make things happen. Cosmologists embrace these features by envisaging sweeping "meta-laws" that pervade the multiverse and spawn specific bylaws on a universe-by-universe basis. The meta-laws themselves remain unexplained - eternal, immutable transcendent entities that just happen to exist and must simply be accepted as given." Paul Davies, physicist, SETI director
Even Austin Hughes, who is an evolutionary biologist of all occupations, can see the shell game atheists are playing with the imagined 'universe generator',,,
Believe Science Has All the Answers? Evolutionary Biologist Austin Hughes Says, Open Your Eyes - Fall 2013 Excerpt: How does scientism justify moving into areas traditionally explained by philosophy? "What they say is, "Philosophy has never solved anything. It's just nonsense or religion." They don't realize that they themselves are incapable of answering the really big questions. Take these multiverse theories. Basically, they're just a way to deny that the universe has the appearance of design. "The universe was not designed," these scientists say. "It's just that there are lots and lots of other universes, and we just happen to be in one that's favorable to life." But that doesn't solve the metaphysical problem, does it? Where did all of these universes come from? Who established the rules within each universe? Who established the rules by which new universes are generated?" http://salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo26-science-faith/blinded-by-science.php
And should not the fact that Theism has postulated all along that the universe was created by a Being who is not limited by space-time matter-energy count for something?
The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole. Dr. Arno Penzias, Nobel Laureate in Physics - co-discoverer of the Cosmic Background Radiation - as stated to the New York Times on March 12, 1978 “Certainly there was something that set it all off,,, I can’t think of a better theory of the origin of the universe to match Genesis” Robert Wilson – Nobel laureate – co-discover Cosmic Background Radiation
Verse and Music:
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. God Of Wonders - Third Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBNE25rtnE
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