(February 13, 2012 at 11:58 am)brotherlylove Wrote: No, I can say from most of those parameters that there wouldn't be any life at all.
Because more than a few of the parameters would make the Universe absent of any structure, molecules, or existence.
And here is the best argument against any fine-tuning. If the parameters were not what they are, there wouldn't be any existence or a universe at all. Which means, the parameters could not be anything other than what they are. Which means, they are not tunable. Ergo, no fine-tuning.
(February 13, 2012 at 11:58 am)brotherlylove Wrote: Round and round we go. All of the evidence points to the Universe having a beginning. As I've shown you here:
http://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/stephen70/talks...lenkin.pdf
All of the models which postulate an eternal Universe are fatally flawed. I've also demonstrated an eternal past is logically incoherent. You have no argument except to just assert your position over and over again.
Are you too dense to realize that they are talking about the observable universe having a beginning?
(February 13, 2012 at 11:58 am)brotherlylove Wrote: If you wish to say that, I will say that there is a God and you simply cannot know for certain.
Except, there is evidence for actual infinities. There is none for god.
(February 13, 2012 at 11:58 am)brotherlylove Wrote: What you're proposing is logically absurd; you cannot say that new past events are being added to the beginning of the series. And it still contradicts temporal becoming, which is not something you get to dismiss out of hand. The past has been actualized and is not merely potential. Time is only travelling forward and not backwards.
New past events? Who's talking about new past events? The events being added to the past would be "new" if all the events uptil now were accounted for. They are not, since past events are infinite. We are not adding new past events, simply discovering them.
The past has been actualized and is infinite, which is why it is an actual infinite. We simply refer to it as potential because we do not know all of it - obviously, since it is infinite.