Atheism

Discussion in 'Politics' started by nursebee, May 20, 2016.

  1. jem

    jem

    Such is the advice from Bernard Carr in grappling with the fascinating discovery that the physics of the universe had to be fine-tuned if it were to support life. Carr views the only viable options as being either God or a multiverse (the theory that there are a vast number of other universes). Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind also calls our attention to these relatively recent discoveries: “Science may be undergoing a huge course correction, a paradigm shift. A titanic controversy has erupted over the strange anthropic pattern that nature seems to exhibit – the pattern of extraordinary unexplained coincidences that are necessary for our own existence.[1]”


    http://crossexamined.org/god-or-multiverse/
     
    #91     May 31, 2016
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  2. jem

    jem

    #93     May 31, 2016
  3. stu

    stu

    and there is evidence of chemical evolution before life formed.
     
    #94     Jun 1, 2016
  4. jem

    jem

    which is part of the hypothesis of how non life evolved into life. So far science does not have a plausible complete pathway of how non life may have evolved into life.

     
    #95     Jun 1, 2016
  5. Abiogenesis is not evidence, it's a theory. A theory which they cannot replicate and they're trying, but not succeeding.
     
    #96     Jun 1, 2016
  6. stu

    stu

    If abiogenesis is a theory as you say, then it is in any case supported by scientific evidence and as such....is evidence.

    Apparently the obvious choices for origin of life is chemical reaction, of which the whole universe permeates, or an unexplained and unexplainable magic trick by an imaginary sky wizard.
     
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    #97     Jun 1, 2016
  7. That settles it. The balance of probability favors a sky daddy and his winged angels. :D
     
    #98     Jun 1, 2016
  8. stu

    stu

    jink:D
     
    #99     Jun 1, 2016
  9. I don't say it's a theory. It is a theory.
    http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/origins/chemical-cr.htm
    And it's a theory with lots of holes in it. Doesn't mean it's not worth pursuing, but we're a long, long ways from factual evidence. However, one could take it on faith alone.:D
     
    #100     Jun 1, 2016