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Fine Tuning Argument
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RE: Fine Tuning Argument
(May 5, 2012 at 2:15 pm)libalchris Wrote:
(May 5, 2012 at 2:08 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: Well if God has to fine turn the universe, he is powerless as he had to stick to some rules, just like your shopping bill is constrained by money and a architect is constrained by gravity.



I just saw that video earlier today. It was excellent, although I'm not sure it works completely. Using the round peg round hole analogy, he says that god would merely have had to push a round peg through a round hole. The argument can be defeated using the same analogy, and saying god created the hole round so he could fit a round peg through it.

But still only a round peg can go in a round hole which is a limitation which ever way around it its.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Fine Tuning Argument - by libalchris - May 5, 2012 at 1:25 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by Welsh cake - May 5, 2012 at 1:55 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - May 5, 2012 at 2:01 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by libalchris - May 5, 2012 at 2:15 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - May 5, 2012 at 2:35 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by Gooders1002 - May 5, 2012 at 2:43 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by Gooders1002 - May 5, 2012 at 2:08 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by Phil - May 5, 2012 at 8:58 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by Gooders1002 - May 5, 2012 at 9:46 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by libalchris - May 5, 2012 at 2:59 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by Gooders1002 - May 5, 2012 at 3:38 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by libalchris - May 5, 2012 at 3:44 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by Gooders1002 - May 5, 2012 at 3:51 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by Darwinian - May 5, 2012 at 3:15 pm
RE: Fine Tuning Argument - by libalchris - May 5, 2012 at 3:33 pm

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