Devans99

Glad to hear it (on both counts).

If you imagine the negative integers: {..., -5, -4, -3, -2, -1} Then its clear that you can start at -1 and define the whole sequence because you have...

The argument is that infinite regresses are impossible. So that leads to there must only be finite regresses in reality. At the base of each such regr...

But you have statistical evidence (common experience) that there are no elephants in your backyard. So the question does not have a boolean sample spa...

I have no evidence for or against the proposition (initially) so therefore 50% yes / 50% no is the correct initial starting point for the probability ...

The first element causes the second element (cause and effect) The second element causes the third element The nth element causes the nth+1 element So...

Your question is of the form 'Is X a Y?' where there are an almost infinite number of different types of Y. So the answer space is clearly not evenly ...

But it is not normally distributed. We know the universe could be a handbag, a truck, a meat clever, etc... so there are many non-chicken things the u...

But there are more possibilities than 'the universe being an egg' that you have not allowed for. The universe could be a radio, a chicken, etc... So t...

That leaves me as mostly deist and you as mostly atheist. That's your right. Would be interested if you could break your calculation down.

But evidence is built into the question 'is the universe an egg?'. We know eggs are generally small, universes are big etc... So 50%/50% is not approp...

By showing that the 2 possibilities are not symmetrical, you are introducing evidence for/against the proposition. I was assessing the proposition as ...

Maybe you could do us all a favour and point out some of these logical defects? Rather than just throw mud like a small, enraged child.

Biased in favour of the use of probability? Most of what we know, we know only probabilistically. It think probability is an invaluable tool. Life is ...

Science is mostly unaffected by the question of whether there was a creator (if, as I believe, that creator takes only a passive role in the universe)...

But fundamentally, nature cannot have existed forever - it would have no initial state so no subsequent states - so it must be a creation. That implie...

I hold a deist viewpoint. Atheism=Science. Theism=God. Deism=Science+God. So I believe God was the creator of the universe only rather than the theist...

You are loading the question with evidence. My approach is to start at 50%/50% for analysing an unknown boolean proposition and then adjust that estim...

What % probability do you assign to the unknown boolean question 'is there a creator' (before hearing the evidence). Is it: 1. 0% chance of a creator....

I read and replied to all your counter arguments (which were all invalid IMO - as I pointed out). If you have any more counter arguments, I'd be inter...

What is inconsistent about there being a creator?

1. Is the universe life supporting by chance? That seems very unlikely. A billion to one shot maybe. 2. There is separately (say) a 50% chance of a cr...

Is there a creator? is a boolean question. It has a unknown sample space so we have to assume a normal distribution (IE 50%/50%) before taking any evi...

I could of added Aquinas's 3rd argument to get to 95%...

Here is my probability estimate for 'is there a creator of the universe?': 1. Start at 50%/50% for the unknown boolean question ‘is there a creator?’ ...

So your estimate for the question 'Is there an intelligent creator of the universe?' is 50%. Mine is more like 95%. I am entitled to my own opinion, a...

Something must exist permanently (or else there would be nothing) and nothing can exist permanently in time (it would have no initial state so no subs...

1. So you agree infinite causal regresses are impossible? (see the argument in the OP). 2. So all causal regresses in existence must be finite causal ...

That is the point of my argument - God cannot be fine tuned and must be uncreated - so he must be something very special.

God would not create a universe that is dead for the vast majority of its existence, he would create something self renewing, see: https://thephilosop...

It is extremely unlikely for a randomly specified universe to support life. There are about 20 fine tuned constants that have to be at or near their c...

I do not believe God is omnipotent. He can't just wave his hand and it be so. He must have generated the universe from something. The Big Bang was pro...

Did you not read the section of the OP about fine tuning?

I am amazed you are disagreeing with me. It does not matter if it the elements can't be numbered (which they can), all elements are directly or indire...

Your lack of counter arguments is illuminating.

Rubbish. The universe must be life supporting, from the get-go (the Big Bang) in a fundamental way (the standard model and four forces must be fined t...

Your logic is at fault as I already pointed out.

OK maybe science has not reached a judgement, but initial conditions of the universe + initial laws of the universe -> determine the four forces and s...

Those properties do not evolve; they are effectively set in stone by the initial rules and conditions of the universe.

Take for example just the strong nuclear force. It must have the strength, direction and range it currently has for atomic nuclei to hold together. Qu...

I think if you were to write a computer program that generated universes at random, with random forces, random standard model, random initial conditio...

It is misleading, decisions that are right (=maximise net pleasure) in the long term can be painful in the short term (eg think exercise, learning to ...

Net pleasure = total pleasure - total pain Good/right = net pleasure Evil/wrong = net pain

I have a simple definition of good and evil: - Good is right - Evil is wrong So Good is more optimal than evil (always better to do the right thing ra...

There is also an argument from the start of time that eternalism must be true: 1. There is a start of time (because could a greater than any finite nu...

The two people are in the same spacetime location yet the trackside person's past would contain events from the person on the train's present.

If inflation was a natural event then it should occur with the frequency of a natural event (eg supernovas). Each instance of inflation expands outwar...

OK. Thanks for the conversation.

But time is indubitably linear in nature; earlier times precede and define later times. The argument I am using works for any infinite regress where e...

I do not believe they would be causally disconnected; they would be overlapping in time and space and there would be evidence of multiple instances of...