What are the chances of God arising by randomness, out of interest? I'm still with option A here.
Existence of God would also automatically explain everything else about life, universe, death, etc.
What are the chances of God arising by randomness, out of interest? I'm still with option A here.
The problem with this line of thinking is that you are automatically assuming that said higher power is the Judaeo-Christian God, which still doesn't explain everything else, given how many differing concepts there are of God and the afterlife, even in Christianity.
If we are going to go down the "what's more likely?" route, why is it a given that said higher power is God, as we (might) understand him to be, rather than Ra, Osiris, Zeus, Vishnu or some other unfathomable creator-deity?
So you're saying that there's nothing note-worthy of our universe having the perfect set of cosmic constants to permit life? Even though a mere 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% deviation in any of the constants would have rendered any chance of life development null & void?
A 1 in 10^60 chance of the gravitational constant having been spot on by randomness, or someone making it so in the first place.
By default, there's a 50% chance of God existing, and a 50% chance of God not existing, since direct evidence both for and against the notion of God cannot be attained.
Yes, it is exactly what to expect with postselection.
Any number you can quote for the probability is full of crap.
I need a cup of tea to think over that but unfortunately I left my teapot in low-earth orbit.
That's akin to burying your head in the sand. Watch the video that I've posted above. 1 in 10^60 is the best odds, other constants exhibit even lower tolerances of error. Millions of orders smaller.
No video is going to convince me that we have a theory of the universe that can make such predictions. Especially when the best theories we have contradict each other.
So any number coming out of this is going to be full of crap.
Looks you're afraid of watching it than anything else. Any reasonably logical person with an open mind would watch the video out of curiosity, if not in the interest of hearing all sides of the argument.
Thanks for letting me know where your closed mindset lies.
Afraid? I just won't waste my time for a video that cannot be correct. Otherwise it would have generated a Nobel prize.
So many logical fallacies in one sentence. Something has to be correct to win a Nobel Prize? Why is the Nobel Prize of any relevance in the first place?
The claim it so outrageous, that if proven true, would be the most important breakthrough in theoretical physics in the last 50 years. If there was anything to it, I would know about it and so would the Nobel prize committee.
Outrageous claims cannot be true? And if true, they must be winners of the Noble Prize, or for the better, must be known by you in advance?
They can be true. But if they were proven true, they would make such a big splash that someone who somewhat follows the literature, like me, could not miss it.
You either accept that fact that cosmic constants as such G just randomly happened to be fine-tuned to 1 part in 10^60, or they are so by intelligent design.
To accept that the Universe is fine tunned, I would have to accept that another reality/Universe/entity was there beforehand, something you say there is no proof of,and have argued against, so your theory assumes the acceptance of a multi-verse of some kind where our norm is not the case.
or I can go with God's "I am that I am" and just accept that the Universe just is the way it is.
I tend to agree, but a fine tunned Universe has to have God somewhere for him to design it (implied multi verse), unless he is in our Universe which I tend to think he is, so we happen to live in a universe that happens to have a God you don't need Multi-verses, you only need our UniverseBoth false. The multiverse theory is pure speculative conjecture that will never have proof by definition.
To accept the why the universe is fine-tuned to a 1 part in 10^60 precision at minimum, you can either 1) believe that it happened by chance - a gigantic leap of faith or 2) believe that it was made so intrinsically by design - which brings up the question as to who designed it as such?
according to your video, so if that happened 10^60 times, to pick a random number, then our current universe is not fine tunned but probaly inevitable