Category: Fine tuning
ID Foundations, 17a: Footnotes on Conservation of Information, search across a space of possibilities, Active Information, Universal Plausibility/ Probability Bounds, guided search, drifting/ growing target zones/ islands of function, Kolmogorov complexity, etc.
| April 6, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Fine tuning, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
(previous, here) There has been a recent flurry of web commentary on design theory concepts linked to the concept of functionally specific, complex organisation and/or associated information (FSCO/I) introduced across the 1970′s into the 1980′s by Orgel and Wicken et al. (As is documented here.) This flurry seems to be connected to the announcement of… more
VIDEO: Dr Guillermo Gonzalez surveys and briefly, simply explains several fine tuning cases behind the cosmological design inference
| February 24, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cosmology, Fine tuning, ID Foundations, Video |
Dr Gonzalez — the Astrophysicist half of the Privileged Planet team — recently presented this lecture in which he surveys and briefly, simply explains several key fine tuning cases: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Again, useful food for thought. END PS: For more on fine tuning, cf VJT’s recent post on a new form of… more
Is Atheism Rationally Justifiable?
| January 7, 2013 | Posted by William J Murray under Atheism, Fine tuning, Philosophy |
First, I’d like to thank Mr. Arrington for granting me posting privileges. I consider it quite an honor, and I hope this post (and any future posts) warrants this trust. Second, the following is an argument I think will help us to focus on a fundamental issue that lies behind ever so many of the… more
Why is our solar system so bizarre?, science journalists ask
| May 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, News |
“Scientists have studied the process of planetary formation in hopes of grasping how our solar system came to be, but the answers have not been simple.” more
Oxford mathematician John Lennox on fine tuning in the universe
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, News |
“We should note that the preceding arguments are not ‘God of the gaps’ arguments; it is advance in science, not ignorance of science, that has revealed this fine-tuning to us.” more
He said it: Beethoven on fine tuning of the universe
| February 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, News |
Well, he should know about fine tuning … more
Why does the Higgs boson matter so much?
| January 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, News |
But won’t they be tempted to see it, whether or not it is there? more
Many of Victor Stenger’s “no fine-tuning” claims dubbed “highly problematic”
| January 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, News |
“This paper can be viewed as a critique of Stenger’s book, or read independently.” more
Recently published statistics indicate that the odds are overwhelming that you do not in fact exist
| November 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, News |
A striking graphic demonstrates the unlikelihood. more
What effect will NASA cutbacks have on public perceptions of science and religion?
| November 14, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, News |
“The 2012 budget request for NASA paints a far less rosy picture of the next 5 years, and the outcome for 2013 is expected to be even worse.” more
Why the ID community maybe SHOULD celebrate Carl Sagan day …
| November 12, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, News |
Sagan played a key role in establishing that the “science” of popular media is mostly bunk directed at supporting atheism and that any evidence-based assessment of life in our cosmos is the province of “religion.” more
Water is just another of those things in our randomly mutated universe, right? But wait, read this …
| November 11, 2011 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, News |
In a non-Darwin world, would media releases discussing this stuff keep using the term “weird?” Why is it weird? more
New Scientist talks about “fine-tuned for life”
| October 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, News |
Really! But banana palms still don’t grow in Toronto. more
ID Foundations, 6: Introducing* the cosmological design inference
| July 17, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cosmology, Fine tuning, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design |
ID 101/Foundations, 6: Introducing and explaining the cosmological design inference on fine tuning, with onward reference links (including on Stenger’s attempted rebuttals) more
Martin Rees wins Templeton Prize
| April 6, 2011 | Posted by DLH under Books of interest, Cosmology, Culture, Design inference, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics, Religion, Science, Society |
A fine tuning and multiverse advocate, Martin J. Rees, today won the 2011 Templeton Prize. The astrophysicist with no religion won the Prize originally “for Progress in Religion.” The 2011 Templeton Prize was announced today. LONDON, APRIL 6 – Martin J. Rees, a theoretical astrophysicist whose profound insights on the cosmos have provoked vital questions… more
Multiverse: Recent studies suggest that some alternative universes “may not be so inhospitable” – assuming they exist
| October 17, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Cosmology, Fine tuning, Multiverse |
Well, the supernatural may be “outside the scope of science,” but universes whose existence is not demonstrated, which are imagined principally to get out of a jam with the evidence from this universe, are reasonably doubted, despite thought experiments. The tentative tone here is well justified. It should be used more often. more
Bruce Gordon’s Article on Stephen Hawking
| October 4, 2010 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Atheism, Design inference, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design |
In a recent Washington Times article, written by the Discovery Institute’s polymath Bruce Gordon, Gordon discusses the soundness of Stephen Hawking’s argument made recently which states that the universe could have been brought into existence merely by the laws of nature. Stephen Hawking‘s new book, “The Grand Design,” co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow, contends that God… more