I don’t like answers. They are too definite to me. But this debate highlights a very simple idea: causation is time, time is causation. If something is defined in the field of space, is also related to time (velocity and space), so causation is just order. Time is order.
Jeffery Jay Lowder uses a penetrant argument: if someone is causing something, that something must be prior to him. There is a distance between assuming something and explaining it.
I think all debate is worth for this shot.
Jeepers. Watching this video is like reading one of those old Classics Illustrated comic book versions of some famous piece of literature. It’s ok for the junior high school book report if you can’t manage to read the original book but after you dumb it down and leave so much out it’s best function is as toilet paper. Ok I’m an elitist – so sue me.
I have to confess I’ve never understood why a Christian theist would resort to so-called “Fine Tuning” arguments that would seem to completely undercut their viewpoint. By definition the Christian God is responsible not only for the creation of the universe and life in that universe, but also for the conditions under which a universe and life in it can be created. Whence comes “constraints”? Are we supposed to be impressed because God tied one hand behind his back? Nothing seems more redolent of naturalism that constraints. Not enough radiation and life is impossible. To much radiation and life is destroyed. That is what you expect in a naturalistic universe. Not a God who constrains himself and offers that as evidence of his existence.
I would go a little further. Since we witness life, then this universe should be fine-tuned to permit it. I feel it’s a recursive argument. No matter how it is its causation, it’s just as it is.
To demonstrate that a different value for the universal constraints that we observe in the universe would not allow other forms of “life” is just wishful thinking. How would you define life in a different context?
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