Halper and Meyer on Inscrutable Dice and Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Anthony Aguirre, Battle of the Big Bang, beans, Caltech, Christopher Hitchcock, cosmos, Daniel Díaz-Pachón, debates, dice, dimensional analysis, fine-tuning, Frank Wilczek, Fred Adams, general relativity, Intelligent Design, Justin Brierley, Luke Barnes, Martin Rees, Max Tegmark, normalizability, Ola Hössjer, parameter space, Phil Halper, physics, Planck scale, posterior probability, prior probability, probability, Robert Marks, Robin Collins, Standard Model, Stephen Meyer, theism, __featured1
Phil Halper has argued against a position that no one holds, and his argument as a whole lays claim to the very capacity his objection denies. Source
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Examining Max Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

Aaron Zimmer, asymmetry, Brian Miller, cosmology, Ellie Feder, ID The Future, intelligent cause, laws of nature, math, Mathematical Universe Hypothesis, mathematics, Max Tegmark, multiverse, physics, Physics to God, Podcasts, Science Uprising, selection, Stephen Meyer, universe
According to this theory, every possible set of laws governs a universe, and our existence is simply explained by observer bias. Source
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As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

Andreas Wagner, biology, Brian Miller, cellular structures, computer scientists, Daniel Witt, David Deutsch, DNA, eric hedin, Evolution, Evolution News, George F. R. Ellis, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, life, mathematical biology, mathematicians, Max Tegmark, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, organisms, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, Roger Penrose, The Immortal Mind, time and space, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg
What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Source
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Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

Andreas Wagner, biology, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, Engineering, environment, Evolution, flatworms, frogs, George F. R. Ellis, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, Life Sciences, material world, materialism, mathematics, Max Tegmark, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysterian, mysticism, naturalism, numerosity, philosophies, physical world, planarian flatworms, Platonism, Platonists, preprint, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, spooky, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg
Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Source
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