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Robert J. Marks

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Denyse O'Leary
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October 28, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Multiverse
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At Mind Matters News: Why just anything can’t happen given an infinite sum of universes

Denyse O'Leary
October 28, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Multiverse
Marks: It can be shown mathematically that the infinite does not exist in reality, only in our minds. Thus an infinite number of universes cannot exist. Read More ›
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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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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Our Universe Survived a Firing Squad and It’s Just an Accident?

Denyse O'Leary
October 4, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Ola Hössjer: According to the Weak Anthropic Principle, we should not be surprised to live in a universe that harbors life. But I should add that, in our paper, "Cosmological Tuning Fine or Coarse?," we compute or give an upper bound for the probability of a randomly generated universe to have a certain constant of nature, ending up within its life-permitting interval. We take the Weak Anthropic Principle into account — and still we come up with small probabilities for certain constant of natures or certain ratios or constants of nature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 3, 2021
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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At Mind Matters News: Could advanced aliens have fine-tuned Earth for life?

Denyse O'Leary
October 3, 2021
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
As Robert Marks, Ola Hössjer, and Daniel Díaz discuss, some prominent atheists/agnostics have chosen to substitute advanced extraterrestrials for God. 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
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May 14, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Could artificial intelligence change the mind–body problem?

Denyse O'Leary
May 14, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Angus Menuge: I don’t see any reason from these amazing enhancements of the complexity of these [computer] systems to think that the systems would move from not having subjective awareness to having it or from moving to true intentionality about anything beyond themselves. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 18, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Robert J. Marks: How materialism proves unbounded scientific ignorance

Denyse O'Leary
April 18, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Mathematician Kurt Gödel showed that there is an infinite number of truths that are provably unprovable. That's bad news for scientism, though not for science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 30, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Naturalism
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Math paradoxes show us that the world we live in is not and cannot be purely naturalist

Denyse O'Leary
March 30, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Naturalism
Robert J. Marks sometimes uses the paradox of the smallest “uninteresting” number to illustrate proof by contradiction — that is, by creating paradoxes Read More ›