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Granville Sewell on “The cosmos is like it is because it’s the only one we could see”

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In the Beginning

Also known as the anthropic principle, the Copernican principle, or anthropic selection:

It is difficult to argue with those who appeal to “anthropic selection” to explain improbable circumstances; about all you can say is that there is a simpler explanation. But other universes are by definition beyond observation, so that the anthropic principle is untestable, and therefore unscientific. It is interesting to see how those who for many years have criticized the creationists for inventing an agent external to our universe to account for the appearance of man are now reduced to inventing other universes to explain our existence.

Which are not external, right?

Granville Sewell, author of In the Beginning (2010)

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...or biogenesis...M. Holcumbrink
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Well, I guess that one way to present the law of abiogenesis.M. Holcumbrink
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Further notes: Peanut Butter disproves Darwin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFG5PKw504Jello
November 8, 2011
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notes:
"The laws of probability apply to open as well as closed systems." Granville Sewell - Professor Of Mathematics - University Of Texas El Paso Can “ANYTHING” Happen in an Open System? - Granville Sewell PhD. Math Excerpt: If we found evidence that DNA, auto parts, computer chips, and books entered through the Earth’s atmosphere at some time in the past, then perhaps the appearance of humans, cars, computers, and encyclopedias on a previously barren planet could be explained without postulating a violation of the second law here (it would have been violated somewhere else!). http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/sewell/articles/appendixd.pdf Can Anything Happen In A Open System - Granville Sewell PhD. Math - video http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/sewell/articles/secondlaw.htm The common sense law of physics - Granville Sewell - July 2010 https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/the-common-sense-law-of-physics/ Casey Luskin interviews Granville Sewell - audio http://intelligentdesign.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-02-17T13_17_00-08_00 Evolution's Thermodynamic Failure - Granville Sewell (Professor of Mathematics - Texas University - El Paso) http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9128 “Darwin’s theory is easily the dumbest idea ever taken seriously by science." Granville Sewell - Professor Of Mathematics - University Of Texas - El Paso
bornagain77
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I think it is safer to start to reason from what we know, not from what we don't know. What we do know is that the universe is extremely fine-tuned and well suited for life. The earth was specifically created to be inhabited according to Isaiah 45:18. From all that we can tell, that certainly seems extremely accurate! Scientifically speaking, we don't know if there are a multitude of universes out there or not. No evidence for that. We do know this universe is fine-tuned. So based on that, the safest assumption to make is that it is unique and beyond the realm of probability when it comes to a totally natural origin. Could it be wrong? Perhaps. Could there be a multitude of universes out there? Hmmm. The multiverse is the evolutionist's version of a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Anything to rescue their hypothesis from the logical conclusion of a Creator. Scientifically speaking, anything could be wrong because there is no such thing as actual proof, but the evidence we have now points to a unique finely tuned universe with an earth specifically designed to support life.tjguy
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