One would think the main line republicans are in no way happy to have to hitch their wagon to Trump in the mid terms, and beyond. I would not be surpr...
so after months and months of tweets of "no collusion" , do you think Trump supporters will give him yet another pass on lying if collusion is proven ...
thanks - and that is just the tip of the ice berg. The probability of all the needed conditions is on the order of 52! That is a very very large numbe...
That is just a restatement on the randomness or multi universe hypothesis as alternatives for design. And in the FTA the observation is about the sent...
it is the only observation the FTA addresses. Your point here is just another way of saying life as we know it is a random event. It is just saying if...
I don't think that is a valid argument. It would be if the argument went I looked at 1 million grains of sand, they all had the exact same irregular s...
The FTA starts with the observations that there exist sentient beings like us, and in order for these beings to exist the constraints on the universe ...
yet again, i think the point you continue to miss in your objection, and why it is not addressed in the formal argument, is you continue to revert to ...
also - here is a entrapment of the multi universe alternative: http://home.messiah.edu/~rcollins/Fine-tuning/Modern%20Cosmology%20in%20Philosophical%2...
firstly, i am a theist, but not a proponent of FTA as an argument for the existence of God, because it is in conflict with skeptical theism - that sai...
Yea that is not my understanding of the argument. My understanding is 1. We exist 2. The set of conditions that allow us to exist are incredibly preci...
any thoughts on this ?? You walk in and find me sitting at a desk with a deck of cards in front of me. You pick up the cards and begin turning them ov...
there is no truth claim being made by the FTA, just an assignment on one's belief on the relative probabilities of differing hypothesis on some observ...
You statement "it fails to do that" needs an IMO in front of it. also there is no difference in God as a designer or multi universe as far an evidence...
I think you are missing the main concept of FTA. It is not a proof, and does not present any evidence in support of any particular hypothesis. The onl...
disagree with your logic. Here is your scenario in FTA terms. I exist. What is the more likely reason for that observation. that my parents and grandp...
The FTA is a probability argument that says what is more likely. For life as we know it to exist the odds of all the requirements happening as the did...
You had no issue with the way he performed at the news conference in Helsinki? No issue that the Congress and Senate of the US have no clue what Trump...
I admit it is very unlikely, but I think a conservative could challenge for the nomination, with a story that goes something like - I can provide resu...
But you are still morally and legally responsible for the consequences of your free choice to lie, kill, oppress, steal. The rules of acceptable human...
Real issue with Trump is the advent of a moral relativism in his supporters, and his continual assault of the truth. Just yesterday at a the VFW conve...
As with many arguments it is often unclear what the conclusion is. Most often the fine tuning argument is portrayed as a set of incredibly coincidenta...
Just read this in a short article in the National Review of the Cohen taped conversation: "Do the tapes suggest that Trump knew about efforts to buy t...
agree and agree there are reasonable cases for both. I find the theist arguments more compelling, others find the atheistic arguments more compelling ...
and as above - the theist answer remains, compensating goods or morally justifiable reasons. Which is why this issue always inevitably spirals to this...
On P4. Your proposition is assuming there is evil in heaven that the free willed beings in heaven would be free to chose if they desired, but don't be...
Not sure I have ever seen an argument that depends on a state of affairs in heaven, as a defense for the argument from evil, Seems like a proposition ...
that was not an attempt at a straw man, it was an attempt at identifying the concept we seem to be missing each other on. Your assertion that because ...
maybe it would help if I format your point as I see it. Set up: (the traditional argument of evil) - Evil exists, If God was all good, all seeing, and...
You are more than free to believe by reason that there is no compensating good from the black death, because you do not see any compelling evidence th...
we are wandering off the only point i was making. You stated, as some matter of fact, that the simple act of Germany buying natural gas from Russia wo...
the factual statement would be, that we are not aware of any offsetting goods. That there are none is not a matter of fact. Your point assumes, that i...
So are you saying the United States of America is, or has been subservient to Saudi Arabia? I would say quite the contrary. We may well have engaged i...
Where one decides to purchase their energy does not make them automatically subservient to them. We are not, nor have been subservient to Saudi, Venez...
That is not a statement of fact. As above, the traditional argument is cognitive distance. Are you sure, that if there was a compensating good, you wo...
Not sure it is actually possible to belief something is possible without evidence. How would concept of something's possibility enter ones mind in the...
I always think the better question than "does God exist" is , is it reasonable to believe that God exists. The first question seems to require a level...
The classic argument to this point is cognitive distance. If there was a compensating good, would/could we see it, and recognize it as such. We human ...
Always. There was always a stereotypical republican elite. Think Bill Buckley, J Press, 1970 Wall Street investment banker, Yacht club guy. The were t...
That's basically what I am saying. There is an objective reality, Trump did stand at that podium and he did say what he said. He did read that i meant...
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