Re: [asa] Chance or design?

Why would a designed universe be regular? However in both cases one
can make some assumptions. For instance, only regular universes are
likely to result in life evolving. You claim that "Regularity is a
huge restriction on the set of theoretically possible universes.". How
was this established? And even if it were a huge restriction of
theoretically possible universes, there is no reason to reject
regularity as a valid explanation. Surely, Moorad's arguments fail due
to a flawed dichotomy. If we now want to explore the probabilities of
a designed versus undesigned regular universe, then at least we can
proceed from a valid presumption.

Moorad asks "how come regularity", which is a valid question and it
seems that Moorad accepts that his argument was flawed and moves on
towards the 'how and why' of this regularity.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:41 AM, gordon brown <Gordon.Brown@colorado.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, PvM wrote:
>
>> Of course your argument ignores a simple possibility namely a
>> 'regularity'. It both explains how an electron and a proton can join
>> together to form an atom and how we can define a theory to explain
>> this event.
>> False dichotomy. flawed conclusions.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> An electron and a proton can form an atom. Was it chance? Was it
>>> designed? Which is it? If chance, then how can one develop a theory? If
>>> designed, then you can attempt to develop a theory to explain the fact and
>>> consider more complex, atomic systems.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Moorad
>
> Why would an undesigned universe be regular? Regularity is a huge
> restriction on the set of theoretically possible universes.
>
> Gordon Brown (ASA member)
>
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Received on Fri Jun 20 12:27:10 2008