June 10–11, 2016
From NY/NJ Philosophy of Science group:
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Title: Everettian Quantum Mechanics and Evil
Author: Jason Turner
Abstract: The problem of evil has been around for a long time: How can an all-powerful and all-good God allow evil of the sorts we see in the world? If the Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, though, then there is a lot more evil in the world than what we see. This suggest a second problem of evil: If Everettianism is true, how can an all-powerful and all-good God allow evil of the sort we don’t see? If the original problem of evil already pushed you into atheism, worries about Everettianism aren’t likely to make much difference. On the other hand, even if you have reconciled the evils we know about with theism to your satisfaction, you may be troubled by the extra Everettian evils. These evils, I will argue, pose an extra challenge for theism. I do not say the challenge cannot be met; some extant responses to the old problem of evil, if successful, may work against the new problem, too. But some won’t. As a result, the challenge is strictly harder: every solution to it is also a solution to the old problem of evil, but not every solution to the old problem of evil is a solution to it.
Title: A Probability Problem in the Fine-Tuning Argument
Author: Hans Halvorson
Abstract: According to the fine-tuning argument: (i) the probability of a life-permitting universe, conditional on the non-existence of God, is low; and (ii) the probability of a life-permitting universe, conditional on the existence of God, is high. I demonstrate that these two claims cannot be simultaneously justified. In particular, if there are good reasons for a non-theist to think that the probability of a life-permitting universe is low, then these are also good reasons for a theist.
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Templeton (also funding an evolution rethink) is one of the sponsors.
See also: Copernicus, you are not going to believe who is using your name. Or how.
Not only is earth one nice planet among many, but our entire universe is lost in a crowd
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But who needs reality-based thinking anyway? Not the new cosmologists
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1 If evil exists then God exists.
2. Everettian Many worlds is epistemologically self defeating as well as empirically false.
3. Fine-tuning, specifically Penrose’s 1 in 10^10^123 fine tuning for the initial entropy of the universe drives atheistic naturalism into epistemological failure.
notes:
The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. (wiki)
Yet, contrary to MWI, the following experiment shows that the collapse of the wave function is a real effect,,
Of related note, besides the fact that many worlds and the multiverse of naturalists are both epistemologically self-defeating as well as both having no empirical support, on the other hand the Theist does have very good empirical support for his contention of the reality of a heavenly and hellish dimension from two of our best theories in science. From special and general relativity respectively:
also of interest:
Evil happening is never a issue in Evangelical Christian circles.
We understand better the biblical equation on this.
The bible is clear on the subject.
The bible says all people are evil and have it coming. We all deserve destruction.
Satan is around and does it. including influencing mens thoughts.
The only reason for the lack of eternal evil happening to us is because Gods love interferes with evil.
Its not why he allows evil but why he stops as much as he does.
Its love and giving us a chance to be saved from hell in the next eternal world.