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7 Reasons God Exists

In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig

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The World Ensemble Hypothesis

There's no evidence that a world ensemble even exists. No one knows if there are even any other universes at all, much less a randomly ordered infinite number of them. Roger Penrose has calculated that it is inconceivably more probable that our solar system should suddenly form by a random collision of particles than the finely tuned universe should exist. Since we do not have such observations, that fact strongly disconfirms the world ensemble hypothesis. It seems then that premise to the fine tuning is not due to physical necessity or to chance, from which it follows three, therefore it is due to design.

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