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More Detuning 17 Jun 2013 | 05:37 pm
If my Fine Tuning Argument for Naturalism (FTAN) is going to work, it needs to be supported with examples. To recap: the FTAN notes that, because God is (by supposition) all-powerful, there are many w...
What's Wrong With Fine Tuning? 28 May 2013 | 09:50 pm
I've been saying for a while that I think fine tuning arguments are bad arguments. I want to explain that. Suppose I shuffle a deck of cards and let you draw one. It is the queen of hearts. What was ...
Look out, Pixar! 2 May 2013 | 08:30 pm
When I was a boy, I was told atoms were too small to be seen. Today I can watch a movie drawn with individual atoms. Hey, Pixar started small, too.
Pruss, PSR, and QM 17 Apr 2013 | 06:26 am
In the discussion of the Leibnizian cosmological argument for God, Tyler mentioned a book by Alexander Pruss (of Prosblogion fame), The Principle of Sufficient Reason, A Reassessment. In particular, T...
Supernatural Times Two 6 Apr 2013 | 08:23 pm
Two interesting things I've come across about defining the supernatural: The first is a paper by Fishman and Boudry that makes the point that methodological naturalism is not an a priori commitment o...
Cosmic De-tuning 16 Mar 2013 | 09:33 pm
I really appreciate all the comments on my Fine Tuning Argument for Naturalism (FTAN). Ben Yachov made the excellent point that a constant tweaking by God of the natural laws would itself appear to be...
Collins vs. Stenger 26 Feb 2013 | 06:27 am
Robin Collins has written a paper responding to some criticisms Victor Stenger made of the Fine Tuning Argument. Collins starts out by conceding to Stenger that many of the claimed fine tunings do no...
Contingency 7 Feb 2013 | 02:33 pm
Tyler has brought up the cosmological argument from contingency and linked to a Philosophy of Religion (POR) article and a paper by Alexander Pruss. The latter is a long article and will take me a whi...
Untitled 2 Feb 2013 | 05:12 pm
I'm having a good discussion about my anti-fine-tuning argument with Tyler Journeaux over at his blog, Third Millenial Templar. Which is a great name for a blog, by the way. (Reminds me of the need fo...
Attention, Everyone! 28 Jan 2013 | 05:41 pm
This is Somewhat Abnormal, the personal blog of Robert Oerter. It is where I write about things I am reading and thinking about and comment on them. It is not to be confused with the similarly named J...
