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Re: Does God Exist? (was Re: Mercy? (was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer))
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ian Warfield writes:
> > but we only actually get to gawp at it from the 1 in however many where it
> > all comes together - none of the others. So all those other possibilities
> > (count 'em if you like) are completely irrelevant.
>
> But our universe is extraordinarily logical, coherent, and reliable. The
> chance that we happened to fall in the exact universe that not only fits
> these (and other) requirements but fits them to a huge degree of precision,
> is astronomical.
You're not getting it. Maybe there were 10^37 (or whatever) universal
incarnations that had nothing like us occur. That's fine. You're arguing
that a probability that doesn't actually have any bearing on our likelihood,
does. I'm sorry, but that's invalid. It's like claiming that since the
lottery is a 1:6x10^7 proposition, then it's impossible to win. Obviously
that's false.
Chris
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