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Old 03-17-2006, 09:13 PM
chezlaw chezlaw is offline
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Well, mathematically the probability of any specific occurrence is treated as 0. That doesn't mean nothing can happen.

We're talking about the fundamental structures which we use to determine probability. If we change or remove those structures, we no longer have any criterion with which to evaluate probability.

Any argument of God based on specific universal constants is just a re-framing of the argument "if the universe exists, then God must exist." Which is a valid argument to a certain degree, and does present some problems for atheists. But it is definitely not a mathematical or necessarily even a logical problem. And the line of reasoning isn't helped along based on the values of universal constants. They are irrelevant to the line of reasoning.

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The valid argument is:

If existence of universe implies god exists then the existence of this universe implies that god exists.

This argument present no problems for atheists.

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