(January 17, 2014 at 9:32 am)Esquilax Wrote: Well, you don't know that life couldn't have arisen through other sets of circumstances
Given that you can mathematically calculate how an alternative universe would develop over time and what would and wouldn't form in the context of what life requires to establish itself I do have a good idea. If you alter anything even by a fraction of micro percentage you would have a universe unfit for life. This isn't speculative or made up we know is as something of a fact it's based on what we understand and can work out. So the universe is very well fined tuned/balanced to generate the complexity of living forms. Yes there is a way of getting around it by postulating multiple universes but you could equally well postulate one omnipotent God if we're talking about things beyond the universe we can physically observe. Seems to me like it would be easier to just have the one thing there rather than an infinite number of entirely different things. If you want to keep things simple and straightforward.
Quote:, so this point is moot anyway, but I like that you're positing a god that isn't omnipotent, though: if there's something he cannot do...
God could have made anything but he wanted to make this/us specifically. And to make us the universe has to be exactly like this without any margin for any kind of error or mistake.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
