(November 9, 2013 at 10:30 pm)Jesus is Lord Wrote: "...how things behave under certain conditions" is not the same thing as "how things behaved under a given condition." The kind of science we practice is fundamentally predictive in nature. "how things behave under certain conditions" is predictive generalization. It reflects inherent order in the universe.
Not really, it's just humans being able to spot a pattern. This is a stimulus/response thing: if X happens under A, B, and C conditions, Y results. If we don't change X, A, B or C, why would Y ever change?
You seem to be arguing that because stuff doesn't happen completely at random at every corner of space simultaneously, this is evidence of a designer. The problem is, you haven't yet shown that order is the exclusive domain of designers, nor that chaos is the basic state of reality at a universal scale. Every part of this objection is you begging the question.
Quote:How does subscribing to the B-theory allow the universe to exist any more than A-theory? Since you choose an a-temporal stance, the question must be rephrased for you:
"Why is there a universe, rather than nothing?"
Would you take an answer of "I don't know," as evidence for your god?
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