Atheism Undermines Knowledge

[pocaracas]

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... loaded question. Please restate it in a valid manner.

Nice dodge. As I recall the two questions were pretty straight forward. 1) Do you believe in the validity of inductive reasoning? 2) Are you an atheist?

Why do you assume there a reason to the perceived order of the Universe?

Not exactly how I would put it. I would say the universe displays types of cause, final and formal, that do not already inhere to it. These types are necessary for the physical universe to manifest order. Thus final and formal causes are the reason behind the perceived order of the universe.

The Universe is the way it is, because it is the way it is...

Once again, asserting this is a brute fact. You are avoiding the problem.

Apo has dissected the reasoning behind those physical constants and their impossibly narrow range in which we'd get a functioning Universe...

This a not a fine-tuning argument. It's about the the need to assign final and formal causes to justify inductive reasoning.

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You're the one who said " The question remains, why do constants remain constant."
That was, to me (maybe I was wrong), a clear hint at the fine-tuning argument, while posing a why question.

Let's go for your "questions":
1) Do you believe in the validity of inductive reasoning?
Remember I was dumbucked by your wording?... yeah, I don't understand what you mean. Is that like deductive reasoning?
If it is deductive reasoning, it only as valid as the premisses.

2) Are you an atheist?
Yes, I should say so... I do hope your concept of atheist matches with mine, or we'll end up arguing like two old hags


I also don't understand your "final and formal causes for.... the Universe(?)"...

So... define all these strange terms and then we can continue