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To: jonno

The point is that the questions of “why” physical constants happen to be compatible with intelligence or “how” they got that way are meaningless, since they obviously cannot be asked unless the constants do in fact permit intelligence to arise. As I noted earlier, this is a form of the Texas Sharpshooter joke.


61 posted on 11/24/2008 6:59:29 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: steve-b
Your argument is a straw man. "Physical Constants" is not an all-or-nothing package. It is the idea that there is so much coincidence that it begs the question of a creator. You might say there is a preponderance of evidence.

And I'll ask you the same question:
Where in your experience have you seen something come from nothing (or in the case of the universe - everything coming from nothing)?

72 posted on 11/24/2008 7:57:15 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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