Prager University – Does Science Argue for or against God?
In a new video from Prager University, author and lecturer, Eric Metaxas examines the existence of God through the lens of science.
This is fascinating stuff. Watch it all below.
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Course Description
Why are we here? Literally. The latest science says we shouldn’t be. It says that the chance life exists at all is less than zero. So, is science the greatest threat to the idea of Intelligent Design or is science its greatest advocate? Best-selling author and lecturer, Eric Metaxas, poses this intriguing question and comes up with a very unexpected and challenging answer.
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Anyone who would put the probability of an event is less than zero is an idiot. Probabilities range from zero to one. The probability of an event might be .000001, but that is not less than zero. Whoever wrote the caption for this must be fired for incompetence. Further, the guy in the video quotes people saying that life has to be of a certain type of form or mechanism. No decent scientist would say this as we do not know. The video was wasted.
[T]he guy in the video quotes people saying that life has to be of a certain type of form or mechanism. No decent scientist would say this as we do not know.
Actually, a “decent scientist” would argue that if biological life exists elsewhere in the Universe it will almost certainly be based upon the amino acids that have already been found in meteorites. No one has ever come up with an even remotely plausible alternative to the basis that we observe here on Earth. This rather limits the “type of form or mechanism” – not to mention the possible habitats – of such life.
Unless the laws of physics and chemistry can be shown to be somehow different elsewhere in the Universe, talk about other types of biological life must be considered empty speculation devoid of a scientific basis.
Almost certainly? I will bet you can prove a negative too.
I don’t see how we can extrapolate about the frequency of life in the universe, intelligent or otherwise, based on what little we know from the single example we have at hand. We continue to be surprised and amazed by new discoveries even within our own tiny little corner of the cosmos. The verdict on this question must wait for far greater knowledge and understanding than we currently possess.
Saying that the probability of life is zero or less-than-zero is obviously just hyperbole for dramatic effect. The probability may be low, but we have an existence proof that it is non-zero.
Pure sophistry from start to finish.
It takes one to know one, as they say.
Among the other fallacious arguments contained in this video, we see yet another example of the classic argumentum ad ignorantum known as the “God of the gaps” that is almost as old as the universe itself.
There is no “God of the gaps.”
Check out this web site created by Christian scientists: http://biologos.org/