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A finely tuned universe that points to a God.

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Like they did when the church leaders decided what books to put in and what books to leave out?
If you were put in a room with tender and told to separate the legal from the non-legal, could you do it?

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In other words, all the church leaders did was separate the wheat from the chaff.

Their job was to create a list of authorized books; not create an authorized list of books.
 
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Their job was to create a list of authorized books; not create an authorized list of books.

You believe that, and it's adorable. It's like you think God was telling them all the same thing...
 
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It's like you think God was telling them all the same thing...
If you were to separate bills into legal tender and non-legal tender, would you need God telling you?

No, I don't think God was telling them anything.

If you were put in a room with blocks and told to put the cubes in one box and the pyramids in another, would you need an assistant?
 
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If you were to separate bills into legal tender and non-legal tender, would you need God telling you?

God doesn't decide what's legal tender and what's not... you didn't know this?

No, I don't think God was telling them anything.

of course not -- they decided on their own.

If you were put in a room with blocks and told to put the cubes in one box and the pyramids in another, would you need an assistant?

You consider ancient texts to be no different than building blocks? That's pretty shallow...
 
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This thread sure degenerated, as it is likely such threads do, from what would be discussed from the original posted topic for it. I agree with atheists on one specific thing anyway, it is wasted effort on arguing for belief in what the Bible says to them, it will be dismissed in any case, certainly while they are atheists. Their position, arguing for natural processes explaining everything, should be challenged, and the fine-tuned universe that is showing as the original topic was addressing is basis for such challenge. As it cannot be justly dismissed with enough basis, those honest enough to see that can then be given the evidence of the resurrection of Jesus to consider.

It is as I had said. Either way you have to have faith, whichever position in the argument you take. If it is that there can't be the Creator to explain everything, you who are atheist lack what should deal with necessary existence that must be there, and you have to have faith that there are huge numbers in a multitude of alternate universes, with what is known of the exactness of physical constants in our universe being needed with a big bang to explain it as it is, while there is zero evidence of any one alternate universe.

To say that the odds are too far against those constants being just right for it without it planned and brought about does not have need for there to be knowledge of other universes, as there certainly isn't among any of us, and there is no evidence at all of such. So it is, the universe coming from the presumed big bang with universal constants being only slightly different would not have us or any kind of life possible, this we can know, as scientists do. With our one universe, there isn't such probability for it to be expected at all. If the constants are not in any way parameters that are set, no other universes from their big bangs could have the possibility either. But with no connection to anything including our existence to be permitted with our universe those parameters would be too unlikely to just be exactly what they are to correspond to this being permitted, with slight differences not permitting such. But if they are possibly arranged differently, there is evidence of God, and only seeking explanation without necessary existence finds this need for many other universes to explain ours, while there still is absolutely no evidence for such, and it would be inadequate with no explanation for anything ultimately, with dismissing necessary existence.

There must be the necessary existence behind the universal constants which are needed to be just as they are with the universe coming from the big bang.

I think all the complexity that works so well in many cases that are not from any human origin of design is good evidence, and there are so many testimonies supporting the perspective of God's invovement. And the universe itself, with what I see must be with fine-tuning of parameters to explain it coming from a big bang, isn't with a good explanation other than there being necessary existence behind it all with intelligence and power for all the design, with there being evidence for God that is mentioned, and theorizing multiple universes so that this one working, and with us in it, is possible to explain it is without any evidence at all.

The unlikelihood of the parameters of our universe being just as they are to permit us according to the big bang is with it so improbable, without knowledge of such other universes, that is why there is a faith that there are such without any of the evidence for that. So with this I don't have to provide further basis showing that it is only faith without evidence that there are so many other universes and from that we are of the universe that works out. If it were otherwise, than it is for any of you of that position to show there really is the evidence, and with even that still to show there isn't the Creator explaining all. This can't be done, can it? And in all this nothing is explaining the necessary existence.

My position calls for any who claim there are multitudes of other universes to show any evidence of any others. There isn't any evidence and this I can say. And showing anything of any other things were being discovered doesn't do anything of showing there is such evidence for this.

To not consider this still is taking faith, it is just faith that this can be dismissed, so as not to consider more with it.
 
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... the fine-tuned universe that is showing as the original topic was addressing is basis for such challenge. As it cannot be justly dismissed with enough basis, those honest enough to see that can then be given the evidence of the resurrection of Jesus to consider. ...If it is that there can't be the Creator to explain everything...
If the universal constants were different, I would not find it unreasonable to say that another universe quite unlike ours with different properties and laws and beings might have emerged, so a "fine-tuned universe" is not a good argument. Even if this isn't so, it does not prove the biblical creator, nor the alleged resurrection of Jesus.
 
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Dave Ellis said:

The thread degenerated, as atheists won't be able to respond to all points while being consistent with their position, and this response with saying nothing about the points I just had posted shows that.

ananda said:
If the universal constants were different, I would not find it unreasonable to say that another universe quite unlike ours with different properties and laws and beings might have emerged, so a "fine-tuned universe" is not a good argument. Even if this isn't so, it does not prove the biblical creator, nor the alleged resurrection of Jesus.

That might be thought if the constants that there are would not actually be considered with understanding what they are with their effects. But with everything of the universe being explained with the big bang, just the one for gravitation alone being different will have every bit of matter dissipating so there wouldn't be any kind of life from that, or all of the universe with everything in it quickly collapsing very shortly after the big bang, and there being no life with that. So what I showed is a good argument. If what I posted is really looked at it may be seen that I do not say that this proves the Bible right apart from it having agreement that all things came about from the Creator. There are other evidences apart from this showing great reliability of the Bible over any other work that would in any way be considered such revelation from the Creator with the Creator understood to be personal, for which I can also make great argument separate from this, and evidence for the resurrection of Jesus is overwhelming but being a discussion apart from this it is useless to use such to share to those with their denial not dealing realistically with these points showing our universe is designed and not from random arrangement and processes occurring only naturally from that.
 
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If you were put in a room with tender and told to separate the legal from the non-legal, could you do it?

One dollar bill goes here.
Two dollar bill goes here.
Three dollar bill goes there.
Four dollar bill goes there.
Five dollar bill goes here.
Six dollar bill goes there.
Seven dollar bill goes there.
Eight dollar bill goes there.
Nine dollar bill goes there.
Ten dollar bill goes here.
Eleven dollar bill goes there.
Etc.

In other words, all the church leaders did was separate the wheat from the chaff.

Their job was to create a list of authorized books; not create an authorized list of books.

Authorized by whom? The voices in their heads?
 
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There are many objections to this conjecture, some of which may be found here:

Fine-tuned Universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The "fine-tuned" argument for God seems to be based largely on wishful thinking. Yes, our universe can produce life. After all, we are here to ask these questions. That doesn't mean that the universe exists as it does for our benefit.

We don't know just how variable or durable or widespread physical constants are. If the sort of space capable of creating atoms is relatively stable, that may explain why there would be enough time for life to evolve and for us to exist. If physical constants can differ in different regions of physical existence, then there would be even more variation.

This isn't much more than a God of the Gaps style argument. Basically, it amounts to: "you don't have a scientific explanation for the 'fine-tuning', therefore God." It's not much of an argument. It's more of an invitation for theistic imagination.


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So what about we say that the finely tuned constants are beyond the probabilities of naturalistic causes which are based on random chance. If the universe and existence was based on natural causes then we would expect not to see so many finely tuned parameters. Science has calculated these things and so it is the science that has come up with the conclusions. So we may not be able to automatically conclude that its God. But it does point to something beyond a self creating naturalistic cause which would indirectly point to some tampering of the conditions and therefore some intelligence behind things.
 
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DNA is is grammatically coherent.



Study: Grammars of human languages reflect inherent rules of DNA | Exopermaculture

Study: Grammars of human languages reflect inherent rules of DNA


Russian researchers’ findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary! According to them, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and in communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless junk DNA follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. So human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA.

The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored the vibrational behavior of the DNA. The bottom line was: “Living chromosomes function just like solitonic/holographic computers using the endogenous DNA laser radiation.” This means that they managed for example to modulate certain frequency patterns onto a laser ray and with it influenced the DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself. Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) are of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary.
This is interesting as I have also read similar things along these lines. I will have to go back and find the references. But I remember reading that the section of our encoding DNA was enough to account for all the differences and detail in different living things. So there was some speculation that there had to be some other dimension to how our genes were regulated and produced. I think there was talk about it being influenced by some part of our minds. I think epigentics has something to do with this as well.

Another interesting article I read said that the basic protein folds for life are a set of proteins are like the basic laws of physics. They represent a finite set of natural forms, determined by a number of generative constructional rules, like those which govern the formation of atoms or crystals, in which functional adaptations are clearly secondary modifications of primary "givens of physics." So its like the building blocks of life follow some finely made forms which also seem to have been designed in a specific way rather than come from random chance.

." The folds are evidently determined by natural law, not natural selection, and are "lawful forms" in the Platonic and pre-Darwinian sense of the word, which are bound to occur everywhere in the universe where the same 20 amino acids are used for their construction.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12419661
 
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