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If the rover found a men's wristwatch on the sands of Mars, can we infer Intelligent design? [closed]
This question is usually asked about finding a watch on the beach and inferring that it was created, not something the crustaceans just happened to stick together to hide under.
The valid objection to ...
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Can Einstein's reasons for believing in Spinoza's God be structured as a deductive or syllogistic argument?
I'll start with a few quotes from Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein - Wikipedia:
Albert Einstein's religious views have been widely studied and often misunderstood. Albert Einstein ...
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Why does Intelligent Design support God more than aliens?
Throughout this question, let's assume that Intelligent Design is true.
People sometimes use Intelligent Design to conclude that God must exist. However, it seems to me that Intelligent Design can ...
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Does the "Sniper Firing Squad" analogy undermine the anthropic principle’s objection to the fine-tuning argument for God's existence?
The anthropic principle, also known as the "observation selection effect", is the hypothesis, first proposed in 1957 by Robert Dicke, that the range of possible observations that could be ...
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Do all design arguments for god ultimately suffer from circularity?
The design argument when it comes to the adaptations that organisms have stems from “These features look like something God would want to design and seem improbable under naturalism” to “God must have ...
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Is a complex eternal first cause less likely than a simple eternal first cause? [closed]
I have seen this argument posed by people like Dawkins et. al, but is this actually true? Many have pointed to how complex things in nature generally come from simpler origins, but clearly, this isn't ...
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How improbable does an event have to be before we can say it didn't happen by chance?
What is the probability threshold below which we can confidently say that a blind process did not create the supposed event?
For example, how many heads in a row would we need to say that it did not ...
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