Life: Your Questions Answered, or at Least Asked

 

I asked my father and Paul Nelson to reply to as many of your questions about the Great Expectations conference as they could–beginning with the obvious: “Is it true that Paul Nelson believes that the world is only 6,000 years old?” (I paraphrase, but that idea came up in the comments.)

They’ve given their answers to a few more questions, including: “Do you guys believe in intelligent design?” and “Do you actually know anything about science?”

Perhaps most interestingly, you can hear my father talk about the technological and medical innovations to which this kind of research agenda might lead, if it proves fruitful. 

I experimented with reading your questions out loud and having them reply directly. Their answers were really interesting, but I discovered afterwards to my dismay that the sound quality on the video was lousy. I wasn’t close enough to the microphone and neither was my father. I figured everyone would just tune out after ten seconds, so I asked them to do it again.

I did upload the bad-quality video to YouTube, if you want to try to puzzle it out. You can probably discern that I tried to make sure everyone’s questions were at least asked. 

This recording worked better, but the answers aren’t as direct. I do think they’re responding, though, to the spirit of your questions. Do you agree? 

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    @GreatGhostofGodel
    Stephen Dawson Eighty people have reviewed it at Amazon. 27 gave it 5/5, 23 gave it 1/5 (the lowest possible score). Thanks for the recommendation, though.

    IMHO, that’s a good way to measure whether a book makes an interesting claim or not.

    judging from the reviews of this book, the God which Tipler seeks to prove the existence of doesn’t seem to be the present God who, some Christians tell me, offers a personal loving relationship with His people, if only they ask.

    Those reviews could only have been written by people who didn’t bother to read the book.

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    Stephen Dawson Looking forward, they were clearly fantastically unlikely. Looking back, they happened. Our particular set of cosmological constants may, in combination, have been unlikely (but against what standard?) But had they not been in place, we wouldn’t be here to wonder whether or not they proved the existence of God.

    Well said. My appreciation for “The Anthropic Cosmological Principle” revolves primarily around its spirited defense of what has been called “teleology” in other contexts, on the basis of absolutely solid physics. That is, while it has philosophical implications, its foundations are wholly scientific. As I’ve written elsewhere on this site, my philosophy is admittedly neo-Platonist, and I believe that would be true whether I were a Tiplerian Christian or not. For that reason, I continue to recommend the book to you, as it covers quite a lot more ground than posting a Creator (which, in fact, it doesn’t do at all).

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