RE: [asa] Secret Emails Reveal How ISU Faculty Plotted to Deny Distinguished Astronomer Tenure

I am well aware of the multiverse theory and granted neither can be "proven"
but denying a designer as is the equivalent of Wayne Williams denying his
guilt in spite of the evidence.

We accept the obvious implications of the probability in his case but not in
the case of GG. As I said this is the hypocrisy of academia and mainstream
science.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Strachan [mailto:igd.strachan@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 11:16 AM
To: John Walley
Cc: _American Sci Affil
Subject: Re: [asa] Secret Emails Reveal How ISU Faculty Plotted to Deny
Distinguished Astronomer Tenure

On Dec 7, 2007 3:51 PM, John Walley <john_walley@yahoo.com> wrote:

Pim,

You have to keep up. I am not going to spell it all out for you again.

Bottom line, neither ID nor forensic carpet fiber evidence is 100%
conclusive in the scientific sense because both us and the carpet fiber
could have been planted by aliens, but we deduce Wayne Williams guilt from
one but deny GG his tenure for making the same rational deductions from the
other.

The obvious implications of the anthropic principle is that all these
coincidences proves that there is a Designer. There is no getting around
that. That is not unscientific. It is just rational.

I'm afraid it doesn't "prove" there is a Designer. An alternative
explanation that cosmologists are appealing to is the Multiverse. Billions
of barren universes, and ours just happened to get the winning lottery
ticket. For reasons I've explained in other threads, I don't find the
appeal to Multiverse any more convincing, or indeed scientific than the
appeal to a Designer. The anthropic principle no more proves the multiverse
than it proves the designer.

Iain

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