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| Quote (Bob O'H @ Feb. 27 2015,10:36) | Wow. Just, um, wow.
| Quote | | There are several flaws in Professor Coyne’s arguments, which I shall discuss shortly. But Coyne really gives the game away when he remarks in passing that “the laws of nature may vary among different universes if we have a multiverse.” For the multiverse is precisely what makes scientific inferences about the past, based on uniform laws, irrational. The reason is a very simple one: the number of possible universes in which the laws of Nature and the values of physical parameters vary over the course of time will infinitely exceed the number of possible universes in which the laws and physical parameters of Nature never vary, even in the slightest degree. And even if we restrict ourselves to the subset of possible universes in which life could exist, or to the still smaller subset of universes in which life actually appears and in which organisms are able to survive over long periods, we would still find that the number of these universes in which laws and physical parameters vary (either slightly, briefly or locally) infinitely exceeds the number of universes in which the laws and physical parameters never vary. Since (by the mediocrity principle) there is no reason to regard our own universe as exceptional, it is rational to conclude that the laws and physical parameters of Nature have varied in the past, in our universe. Since miracles only require variations which are infrequent, local and brief, it follows that there can be no scientific objection to the possibility of miracles, if we define these as events arising from singular variations in the laws and physical parameters of Nature. |
Next up from vjtorley, rice pudding and income tax. |
Yes but are rice puddings non variant across multiverses? And if so why does God keep it a secret?
Surely a loving inclusive god wood produce and distribute a short multimedia package that gave a rice pudding rating for each universe?
Sort of a Michelin guide to rice pudding consumers across the universal divide.
Let's say in universe yellow, rice is magnetic. Would that be OK in universe blue where teeth are electric?
VJ Should consider the rice puddingness of multiverses vis-a-vis the godliness of blue and yellow with some testable demonstrable protocol for the new science of puddings.....oops sorry miracles.
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