Between Life and the Cosmos, Which Provides Better Evidence for Design?

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Caught on video in the back of a car, in which he was riding with pastor Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens said this about himself and his fellow atheists. Source
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When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

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Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Source
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The Multiverse Has a Measure Problem

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In terms of science, the central problem with the naïve multiverse is that it could explain any observation, so it really explains nothing. Source
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Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

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Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes). Source
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Examining the Fine-Tuning Argument by Elimination

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In his article “Has the Multiverse Replaced God?” William Lane Craig presents the fine-tuning argument using the process of elimination. Source
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Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Source
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“All Things Are Ordered to Their End” 

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In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Source
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Comparing Design Evidence in Physics Versus Biology — Is One Stronger than the Other?

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The multiverse is nakedly an attempt to save atheism from science. Darwinian theory is less nakedly so. Source
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Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

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In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Source
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