Comments for Friendly Humanist http://friendlyhumanist.net Trying to live by compassion and reason - thoughts on the journey Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on New snow by tts http://friendlyhumanist.net/2012/03/08/new-snow-8/#comment-645 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:32:48 +0000 http://friendlyhumanist.net/?p=760#comment-645 tts…

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]]> Comment on What is religious freedom? by Dearbhla http://friendlyhumanist.net/2012/03/15/what-is-religious-freedom/#comment-644 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:10:23 +0000 http://friendlyhumanist.net/?p=765#comment-644 Hi Tim, this is Dearbhla, Deena’s friend from Boston. Hope you’re all doing well! Could you please ask Deena to send me your mailing address when she has a moment? Susu has a painting she wants to send to Kaia :)

]]> Comment on Maybe I’m missing something here. by Julian Adkins http://friendlyhumanist.net/2012/03/01/what-is-my-imaginary-friend-to-you/#comment-605 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:28:53 +0000 http://friendlyhumanist.net/?p=734#comment-605 I am afraid I can’t shed any light on this either Tim. However, I did want to say thank you for putting a smile on my face this morning and encouraging me to be a little more objective about how huffy I get when other folk don’t agree with me. Even with real world issues, when I look more closely at my own reactions I am sometimes more concerned about my ego than the real issue itself.

]]> Comment on Definition: “religion” by tweet marketing http://friendlyhumanist.net/2011/09/24/definition-religion/#comment-600 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:15:34 +0000 http://friendlyhumanist.net/?p=714#comment-600 tweet marketing…

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]]> Comment on Contending with the multiverse by Tony Lloyd http://friendlyhumanist.net/2011/07/25/contending-with-the-multiverse/#comment-596 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:43:36 +0000 http://friendlyhumanist.net/?p=555#comment-596 The best argument against the fine tuning argument I have come across is in Graham Priest’s “Logic a very short introduction”. (A jolly good book, even without the anti-fine tuning argument).

Priest points out that you can’t just look at the likelihood of the universe without God. You have to compare that likelihood with the likelihood of the universe with God.

He then runs off into Bayesian probabilities, but that needn’t concern us here. We just have to appreciate that for every universe that could have been without God there is a universe that God could have created. On atheism we lucked out on getting this universe. On theism we lucked out on getting a God that wanted to create this universe.

My own touch is to consider that (only) around 10^500 universes are possible given string theory. So the probability of this universe happening by chance is 1/10^500. But with God ALL things are possible (Matthew 19:26) so that denominator is way bigger and the probability way lower!

(BTW I came here from a search of the Modal Ontalogical Argument to self-promote my post on the subject: http://bit.ly/xU0uXy Whether it does treat “existence” as a property I don’t know, but in the post I argue that limitations in modal logic force an equivocation in the first premise. I fix the limitations and any persuasive power of the argument disappears)

]]> Comment on Definition: “religion” by Timothy Mills http://friendlyhumanist.net/2011/09/24/definition-religion/#comment-595 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:35:38 +0000 http://friendlyhumanist.net/?p=714#comment-595 I have no record of these comments. WordPress sends all comments to my email, and I do not delete them. A search of my email has only revealed notifications for the comments that are still available on this post. My WordPress account doesn’t have any record of other comments either.

Did you see your comments on the blog after you sent them? If so, then I am perplexed. The only comments I have deleted are a couple like this:

“hg2E5b iaelycqbxxgs”

from a similarly meaningless email address. They were on other posts on this blog.

If you did not see your comments on this website after you posted them, then I would guess WordPress had a hiccup and never actually recorded your comments.

Whatever the reason, if you are willing, please try to repost your comments. I will not remove them.

]]> Comment on Definition: “religion” by wordwhisperer http://friendlyhumanist.net/2011/09/24/definition-religion/#comment-594 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:39:21 +0000 http://friendlyhumanist.net/?p=714#comment-594 Patricia’s comment was this: http://friendlyhumanist.net/2011/09/24/definition-religion/#comment-568

It’s gone. Mine’s also gone. I find this odd, seeing that I disagreed quite intensely with what you said.

]]> Comment on Definition: “religion” by Timothy Mills http://friendlyhumanist.net/2011/09/24/definition-religion/#comment-593 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:07:49 +0000 http://friendlyhumanist.net/?p=714#comment-593 Some time ago, I cleaned out a couple of apparently spam comments – they seemed to be machine-generated and didn’t make much sense. If either of them was a legitimate comment, I apologize. Or perhaps you are thinking of a different post or blog?

]]> Comment on Definition: “religion” by Joy-Mari Cloete http://friendlyhumanist.net/2011/09/24/definition-religion/#comment-592 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:44:28 +0000 http://friendlyhumanist.net/?p=714#comment-592 Dude, who moved my comment? And what happened to the comment Particia Feuerberg made?

]]> Comment on Healthy newsreading by Johnette http://friendlyhumanist.net/2009/11/03/healthy-newsreading/#comment-574 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:57:01 +0000 http://friendlyhumanist.net/2009/11/03/healthy-newsreading#comment-574 I actually found this more etnetarinnig than James Joyce.

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