Halper and Meyer on Inscrutable Dice and Cosmological Fine-Tuning

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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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Some Definitional Drawbacks In Atheism

2. Does God Exist?, agnosticism, Apologetics, Atheism, Christianity, Gospel, intelligentchristianfaith.com, John Ferrer, Philosophical Theology, skepticism, theism, What is Atheism? Definitions
In a previous article I wrote about how “atheism” is best understood as a belief that there is no God. Those who prefer to describe themselves as merely “lacking God-belief” would do better to describe themselves as “negative atheists” as that is the more precise term. As a postlude to that article, I think it’s important to state why this stuff matters. I’m not confident that that this definitional minutia matters a lot. It matters. But it’s not of ultimate importance. Far more important things deserve discussion. Nevertheless, this stuff matters enough to deserve at least a little observation here. Here are some reasons why I think this stuff matters. First, Negative Atheism Comports With God’s existence                Perhaps the biggest most glaring problem with the “new” (negative/soft/weak) atheism is that it’s compatible…
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Meyer, Klavan: The Telltale “Element of Smugness” that’s a Giveaway for Scientific Atheists

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I bet you could turn the sound off on a video of the well-known scientific atheists and they would be identifiable by the smugness that radiates from them. Source
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Which God When There are 3,000 to Choose From?

2. Does God Exist?, Apologetics, Arguments for God, Atheism, Christianity, Exclusivism, God, Gospel, Sean Redfearn, theism, which Religion?, Worldview
When I went to university, I encountered the biggest intellectual doubt I’ve ever faced as a Christian: How can I be sure that Christianity is true? Here was my thinking: “Can I really claim that I have the right religion when there are 3,000 others to choose from?” You might have come across a form of this argument via the atheist comedian Ricky Gervais. As I went to university, I knew that I couldn’t keep my faith, nor share it with any real conviction, unless I knew that Christianity was true (1 Cor 15:14). I had to know which God was the correct one. Ultimately, philosophy was the primary force that drove the cementation of my Christian faith.[i] Categories of Theism As I wrestled with this doubt, I discovered that…
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Meyer, Fradd: Atheist Evolutionists Reason as if They Were Theists

Deity, Doubts, Evolution, evolutionary process, evolutionists, Ideas, Intelligent Design, interviews, knowledge, Matt Fradd, monotheists, naturalism, nature, Philosophy of Science, Pints with Aquinas, reality, reason, science, scientific reasoning, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, The Story of Everything, theaters, theism, __featured1
Only a loving Deity who endowed us with reason — a highly unnatural gift! — can explain why we are able to think rationally, including about science. Source
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Framing a Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical “Carrollers”

Alex O’Connor, Bayesian reasoning, cosmology, fine-tuning, Hans Halvorson, Humean probabilities, Intelligent Design, likelihood ratio, Luke Barnes, mathematicians, metaphysics, monotheistic tradition, multiverse, Ned Hall, Nevin Climenhaga, personal beliefs, philosophers, philosophy, physics, plausibility, podcasters, Presbyterians, priors, probability, psychological states, Robin Collins, Sean Carroll, spacetime, subjective inclinations, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, theoretical physicists, Thomas Bayes
Using Sean Carroll’s criticisms of the fine-tuning argument as a general guide, I propose to address objections to that argument, Source
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The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers

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Carroll is a prolific physicist and cosmologist who has been a prominent popularizer of science. Source
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

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Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Source
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The Scientific Discoveries That Make Materialism an Irrational Belief

Barry Arrington, biology, Charles Darwin, cosmology, Evidence, Evolution, Faith & Science, France, God the Science the Evidence, human consciousness, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Italy, Michel-Yves Bolloré, natural selection, Olivier Bonnassies, Palomar Editions, physics, Podcast, proof, scientific discoveries, Spain, theism, Worldview
For the last 150 years, many have assumed science has ejected God from the picture, a quaint relic of a less enlightened past. Source
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