RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
March 30, 2017 at 12:23 pm
(March 30, 2017 at 12:20 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(March 30, 2017 at 9:57 am)SteveII Wrote: First, you have obviously not read back through the posts for the past 9 pages.
Yes, the initial constants could have been different. There is nothing that makes them the way they are. That is not debated. Therefore, the universe is NOT the way it is out of necessity.
This is flat out wrong.
Quote: The desire to explain the constants has been one of the driving forces behind efforts to develop a complete unified description of nature, or theory of everything. Physicists have hoped that such a theory would show that each of the constants of nature could have only one logically possible value.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...s-2006-02/
The only place that you've ruled out necessity is in your fevered imagination. A corollary of this fact is that any calculation of how improbable the current physical constants are is based on nothing but hot air. Nobody knows the ranges these values can take, nor even if they can take other values. Your statements here are nothing but fancy lies.
Yep, but everyone of every religion has convinced themselves of their fancy lies. For most humans it is easier to buy a comforting lie than it is to face a harsh reality. They cant stand that an atheist can accept that harsh truth and still find good in the only life we have.