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  • Look at what we get by actually investigating things from a scientific stand point. Increase in knowledge with real world application. What do we get with the god proposal? Just a bunch of wars and excuses to hate. No contest really.

  • Debunking? This video is childish in it's simplicity and misunderstanding of science and philosophy..tut tut woman!

  • @DawkinsDebunked

    Theist: "If one constant was changed, life wouldn't be possible!"

    Atheist: "If God exists, he could make life possible in any universe with any constants if he wanted to, therefore making life possible under those changed constants if you believe in God"

    **Theist runs**

  • We dont claim any definitive detection and neither did the original paper, I thought we were quite clear that there is only a possibility of finding a signature fo the mutlvierse. But if we werent clear Ill just clarify our position. We do not claim the multiverse exists only that it more plausible and has a better chance of scientific valdation than god.

  • Signatures of other universes in wmap pictures are highly speculative... Including this perspective tears down a little of your seriousness. Other than that, its good reasoning.

  • 13:53 to 14:02 agree :)

  • What's the probability that this gorgeous girl will PM me an email address or phone number so I can ask her out?

  • @dookdawg214 Almost infinitesimally small I'm sure.

    really nice vid btw.

    

  • science is infinitely more beautiful and satisfying than any .. "God"

  • Thank you for this video. Great work!

  • Thanks

  • I know it sounds pretty fantastical, it's all just mere opinion but it's a very interesting subject

    and when we figure it out, I believe that the things that will be possible will be incomprehensibly amazing

  • “If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

    Albert Einstein

  • correction 4 below text

    read: there's another force pushing the

    universe apart enter " Dark energy" should say we we think it it keeps galaxies from flying apart

  • ‎14 billion years ago there was nothing.

    Out of nothing came everything suddenly and without warning and out of the blue , it inflated a quadrillion

    quadrillion times.

    It did this in a fraction of a second !

    "Dark matter" that

    we can't see and have no idea what it is, but we think we know it's

    there because we believe it makes up

    21% of the mass in the universe or at least we guess it does !

    we need it to make the standard model work and for the universe

    to form stars, planets and galaxies.

  • @4JesusRace Out of nothing? How do you define 'nothing'? Since we have no data of what if anything was prior to the big bang assumptions of this sort fall into the realm of philosophy regardless of who states it. While particles pop in and out of existence this happens in the universe which is a 'something'. Empty space is not really a 'nothing'. Nothing implies the total absence of everything in all directions including time.

  • Now 14 billion years later we find there's another force pushing the

    universe apart enter " Dark energy" were not sure even what to call it we can't see it don't know what it is, but we guess

    it's there, we think it makes up 71% of the mass in the universe but we got to have it to make the standard model work

    ain't it great! it even gets better now enter "Dark flow" ok we

    didn't need this, well it's got go into the standard model somehow now

    too !

  • @lapmarty, the multiverse must be preset that way. Same way, she uses the deck of cards; a regular deck of cards does not contain 52 identical cards. She created a deck with 52 identical cards. Therefore the deck is preset. That is the argument theists make; even if we do not know the background information, we can be confident that life-permitting conditions had to be preset by SOMETHING. And we theists believe that the "something" is God.

  • @lapmarty, yeah, I get what she and you are saying. But let me use your example. You said "if there is only one person in the multiverse, the chances of him or her winning the lottery is 100%". I understand that, but you also proved the theists' point. The multiverse you present is preset; that is, there is only one person in it so therefore he will win the lottery every time. Same way, if the universe came out of such a multiverse, where there is only one possibility for its formation,

  • @lapmarty, yeah, I get what she and you are saying. But let me use your example. You said "if there is only one person in the multiverse, the chances of him or her winning the lottery is 100%". I understand that, but you also proved the theists' point. The multiverse you present is preset; that is, there is only one person in it so therefore he will win the lottery every time. Same way, if the universe came out of such a multiverse, where there is only one possibility for its formation,

  • God is. He is in you. That's a completely different level of reasoning and arguing than what we do if talking about science and the material world. God is in you. Or maybe he isn't (anymore)...

    Than I'm sorry...

  • @Torrriate

    "Then" of course..

  • @Torrriate i tell you the truth my faith is not in question ! this is not about faith it's about the truth it is in a way about faith in mere opinion that the the truth is ! we have to add 85% more matter to the Sims to get the universe to form and we don't have anything more than mere opinion as to what or why this is ! that on a sub atomic level

    we don't know and if anybody says they do there a liar ! as far as we don't have faith in the any cult except the Benevolence of Nature ;O)

  • Well scientists believe they may have found the god molecule also known as higgs bozon. I saw it on the news on the main page of internet explorer

  • @cjguitarist100 i think they said it might not exist is another word for oops

  • @cjguitarist100 it's just a name, the god particle, you know that right?

  • @sinachiniforoosh i will let you in on a little secret it might not exist and that glimpse was just dudes cell phone got to close to the equipment but will let you in a year

  • @4JesusRace will let you know in a year

  • Very good video.

    Guth has been misrepresented so many times it boggles the mind.

    Thank you for this.

  • aren't these the same people that believe in the chupacabra and the higgs bozon

  • C'mon now the fact still remain that we don't know and that the producers are pushing totalitarianism

    the truth is we don't even know what matter is let alone Gravity

  • @4JesusRace your a bit late, matter and gravity have beeen explain, not completly, but pretty much,

    but your right, beleiving that god send is son, to be part of a barbarian human sacrifice, to pay the debt of 2 jackass that ate a apple 2000 years ago,, in a resonating sin trought the ages is a good explanation

  • @lapmarty 6000 years for the apple eating fest, my bad,

    he did wait 4000 years then, before he decided, this aint right we have to have the entire human population pay for this, and his solution was to torture is son, cause somehow in that world viw, sin, can be transferred, wich is a horrible idea, but hey he is a capricious god!! lol

  • @lapmarty i didn't know the standard model works without some hocus pocus math

    "we pretty much don't have clue" i'm just stating a fact

  • @4JesusRace the fine tuning argument is a tautology, its been discard long ago,

  • @lapmarty all we got is hard cold data and the math doesn't work completely but pretty much, Right ?, all the little minutia except for one thing ! Right ? you with here

    it's pretty much amazing that atoms have arranged in such away as to contemplate their own origins that we go from light photons to this Right ?

  • @4JesusRace first no, we got hard EVIDENCE for reativity, 71 experience with the jumbo jet and atomic clock, the eclipse in 1919, so it isnt math doesnt work, they do, gravity is the curve in space-time fabric, this is expained, the lack of a unified field theory doesnt have anythingto do with fine tuning and a creator,

    Lets pretend evryone start to beleive a creator started all this with the big bang, and stop all research, where does it lead us?? let says they did that 200 years ago??

  • @lapmarty hello GR is beautiful you can write it out in one line why is QP so ugly " i think the name misled you to believe ?  the lack of a unified field theory doesnt have anythingto do with fine tuning and a creator, I TOTALLY CONCUR

    only follow the facts no matter where the brut facts take us right?

    It is a brut fact that the CC is tuned to 10/120 power all that tells me is life is so precious and we are incredibly lucky

  • @4JesusRace yeah sorry i was under the impression you were a literrate christian trolling, sorry but there is so many of them

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  • @4JesusRace it is impressive that matter organize in a expotential order of organization, but we have a find a rational explaination to evrething we didnt have one to date, without any known supernatural cause i bet if we keep digging this way we will get more answer, saying that god must have done it, or magic, is really a mistake in the way of thinking, plus the fine tuning as i explained it in a multiverse, (evrething point out right now that there is a multiverse) is explained

  • @lapmarty 

  • @lapmarty it gets more fantastical the more we dig and we all believe in the magic that caused us E=mc2 Right ?

  • @lapmarty I truly believe we will find a beautiful mathematical equation that will unify

    the fields and at this stage in our evolution will be know as the golden age and the benevolence

    of nature has it just so that we can have this conversation ! i believe that we are so fortunate that the atoms in our body " which will never stop existing unless yours are made into an atom bomb, " that were all related" and that science will declare the truth and mere opinion needs to be proven first right?

  • is good

  • so....she is saying that the universe is not fine-tuned for life because there are no aliens? and the probability argument is wrong because we don't know "what's in the deck". When it comes to random mutations and specific environmental conditions, we do know "what's in the deck". And the result is that the chances of you winning the lottery 10 times is higher than those of the universe and life forming from purely naturalistic processes.

  • @djones90678 wrong, in a multiverse , that question is non sence

    do you understand why? what are the probability of winning the lottery if your population is 1 lottery winner, 100%, its the same, here

    <

  • @lapmarty first there was 1 sun, wrong, now there is many, one galaxy? wrong, there is billions, every single idea we had that we were special, we lost, earth not the center of universe, we now find that there is probably many universe!! seems logic no?

    so the fiune tuning argument is really like all the other, it will lose it places, it already did,

    the big picture man,! look at it

  • Best Goddamn video I've seen in a long time, Well Done!

  • i think the best argument for god is there surely cannot be a naturalistic explanation for bill o'reilly being paid millions of dollars a year.

    i can explain why the fucking tides go in and out, let alone stephen hawking.

  • People shouldn't overestimate the ability to know, there will always have to be a point in which people will just have to ask "why is it like that ?".

  • @babkrani You're right. There are few thing in life that we can "know" empirically. Some would argue that we can't know anything. It's not about what you can know or prove, it's about believing what's right.

  • @digifreak10101 Yea, and remember the very fact that the humain brain is the most complex structur ever seen so far in the universe can debunk the whole video...

  • She also incorrectly assumes that theists don't seek answers, but just say, "God did it." That's a straw-man. Some say that out of ignorance, but many scientists believe in God and that belief motivates them to discover his mind and his language rather then rely only on what we think we know.

  • @digifreak10101 "She also incorrectly assumes that theists don't seek answers, but just say, "God did it." That's a straw-man" When it comes to giving evidence for a creation, theists essentially use two logical fallacies in conjunction: the argument from ignorance and special pleading. Saying goddidit is a rather typical reply. Some scientists believe in God, but that has nothing to do with a belief in supernatural creation which, by definition, is outside the scope of science

  • @AlanCFA I know, but if God created everything, there there is no separation between natural and supernatural. Everything falls under the same jurisdiction. You can't say, "God did this here, but not this here."

  • @digifreak10101 "if God created everything, there there is no separation between natural and supernatural" Typically, the argument is that everything in the natural world needs a creator. When atheists ask who created God, theists reply with God did not need a creator because He is not part of the natural world, but is supernatural. That is what I meant by supernatural creation. If you believe God to be part of the natural world, then who created God?

  • @AlanCFA That would have to exclude God by definition. I still don't subscribe to the view of natural versus supernatural. I just believe everything is God's.

  • @digifreak10101 "That would have to exclude God by definition." What would have to exclude God? What definition? Why would God be excluded? I have no idea what point(s) you were addressing.

  • @AlanCFA The definition of "God."

  • @digifreak10101 "The definition of God" Ok, now I am starting to suspect that you are a troll. You claimed "That would have to exclude God by definition" and when I asked "what would have to exclude God" and inquired "what definition", you reply with "the definition of God".

    Do you understand that your reply says that you must exclude God from the definition of God???

  • @AlanCFA Umm... I think you're confused. I was referring to my earlier comment. You asked that if God is part of the natural world then who created God. I answered that based on the definition God he would have to be excluded from the natural world because God, by definition, cannot be created.

  • @digifreak10101 1/2

    "I think you're confused" Yes, because your previous replies were not clear. You now have clarified with "he would have to be excluded from the natural world" which is the point that I made earlier - that typically, the argument is that everything in the natural world needs a creator, but that God does not because He is outside of nature. This contradicts your claim that "if God created everything, there there is no separation between natural and supernatural"

  • @digifreak10101 2/2

    Your original statement was "She also incorrectly assumes that theists don't seek answers, but just say 'God did it'

    But when it comes to giving evidence for a creation, theists do say "God did it". They engage two logical fallacies together

    1) the argument from ignorance (we do not know how we got here but everything has to be created so there must a god)

    2) special pleading (god did not need to be created)

    Some theists seek answers, but on creation it's goddidit

  • This argument ignores a major part of creationism: the creationist argument is two-fold: 1. that the universe was created perfectly by God, 2. that it is corrupt and decaying due to sin and we are also living in the aftermath of the flood so things are really messed up.

  • @digifreak10101 So most of her arguments are actually in support of creationism as well.

  • @digifreak10101 "So most of her arguments are actually in support of creationism as well."

    Not even close.

  • Your hotness and intelligence factors begs me to ask a question: Will you marry me?

  • The universe is not fine tuned for life! only this earth!

  • Not sure what her argument is. The entire video seemed to be composed of "science is awesome, God isn't," archaic straw man analogies that have already been refuted, and "the universe might not be as fine-tuned as we currently think it is." Except that pretty much all scientists agree that the universe is fine-tuned, and try to explain why it is that way. Way to side-step the issue.

    This video kind of reminds me of those "global warming is a hoax" videos.

  • @peacerenity I think its quite obvious. If you want to talk about God you're fine to do so but only in a metaphysical context. You cannot attribute an intelligent designer whos existence cannot be observed or tested in any way to the creation of the universe and claim what you're doing is science. God is not a scientific explanation for anything.

  • @peacerenity The point is that the universe (even parts of this planet) is actually hostile to life.

  • @peacerenity "Not sure what the argument is"

    How did you miss it? The argument is that the assumption is being made that our existence is better than our non-existence. That the argument that a number of other outcomes could have been the case is irrelevant to the fact that our universe containing life as being something of significance is only an opinion. Arguing that our existence is unlikely shouldn't be convincing to anyone.

  • Sorry this is lame plain and simple. Arguments that Craig has refuted already in his many debates. See videos/podcasts of his latest London tour for examples.

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  • In this context its the relationship between the density of matter to the critical density. Read the book "The Inflationary Universe" by Alan Guth

  • Perhaps a decent refutation of popular level fine tuning arguments, but nothing on e.g. Robin Collins. Disappointment.

  • Awesome!

    Very incisive and hard hitting vid.

    You just torpedoed the SS William Lane Craig. Rescue teams are now being deployed.

  • Oh my FSM... is Bill Oh'Really still parading his ignorance with that "tides go in, tides go out" crap? Cue my Dave Silverman face...

    Anyway, great video, thanks!

  • Lol. The funny thing is that the teleological argument doesn't say the world is made for human beings.

  • Excellently presented refutation of Craig et al. 

  • Extremely funny video! Narrator choice becomes amazing at this part: "This is only true in classical cosmology" LOL! Of couse I would not hesitate to hit dislike since the author of this tale is a joke who does not understand Guth's explanation. Guth says it can take any value but this is different than saying life will be possible with any value. This video does not debunk anything at all. If you have studied physics you know what I mean very well.

  • @paralaks " Guth says it can take any value but this is different than saying life will be possible with any value."

    - Aaahh if inflationary theory is correct, then omega can take any value and be driven towards 1 ....

    what exactly was your point?

    No one said that this automatically leads to life.

    Feel free to show where it says that in the video.

    " This video does not debunk anything at all "

    - Seems to be doing a better job than you are.

    But you do seem very impressed with yourself.

  • @Roper122 #randomyoutubecommentersgeniou­sshinnedoverme!

  • @paralaks .. Great... hash tags... go back to twitter.

    But thanks for clearing up what your point was... none at all.

    #YAWN

  • @DuNyceBeats " And you know this so dont lie to yourself... "

    - actually, the question was " So the only reason you don't do that... is because of god? "... and you haven't answered.

    So basically.. I'm saying that I don't kill people because I know right from wrong, based on a collective community, and I respect other people.

    You don't kill people... because god said so.

    And you know this so dont lie to yourself... : )

  • @DuNyceBeats - I guess they are right: if you could reason with religious people there would be no religious people. No god created me, I am not that arrogant to believe such a stupid idea. Me, the center of the whole universe, created in the image of God himself. I don't buy it, no evidence whatsoever, just retarded legends from primitive humans who did not have other way to explain the universe.

  • @DuNyceBeats - Man, you don't have to trust my word on this!! Can't you read properly???? I gave you a reference to a book with information on the topic!!!! I can give you further reference, but this one is written for all kinds of people (not experts in biology or psychology). You don't need to trust me!!! As to the old fables, the Bible is still a book of old fables written by men along hundreds of years and of which we have several different versions.

  • Science is constantly evolving and correcting itself, while religion is a dogma that won't recognize any mistakes and cannot be questioned or contested. Science is the ONLY method we have to gain knowledge of the universe, measurable, empiric, demonstrable knowledge. When a scientist is biased by its own prejudices, other scientists will come and correct his observations, validating them for everyone.

  • You probably want to discuss about the Bible's reliability. Science is the BEST method we have to understand the universe. While you keep believeing in Bronze Age fables, you are ignoring the fact that you owe your food, clothing, shelter, means of transportation and communications, health and entertainment to science. It is funny how you are using a computer and the internet at this very moment trying to criticize science and make religion a more "reliable" method of knowing the "truth".

  • The problem with teists is that it is a lot easier to simply believe than KNOWING. KNOWING requires commitment and effort; believing only demands from you to QUIT reasoning and repeat soemthing a minister or a book says.

  • @DuNyceBeats - LOL, forget it.

  • @DuNyceBeats - THAT is preciesely the beauty of science, that it constantly evolves and corrects itself, while religion is a dogma that won't recognize any mistakes and cannot be questioned or contested. Science is the ONLY method we have to gain knowledge of the universe, measurable, empiric, demonstrable knowledge. When a scientist is biased by its own prejudices, other scientists will come and correct his observations, validating them for everyone. Moral does not depend of "god".

  • @DuNyceBeats - Sorry but I don't see Christians doing always right. And you do understand that Christians are a minority in the world, so saying that you need to develop a relationship (?) with Christ to be good is esentially saying some 5 billion people have got it wrong.

  • @DuNyceBeats - Nope, I am not kidding you and nope, moral is not taught (at least not the esence of it), but only adjusted and modified during our lives . If you are interested in the matter, I recommend you read the book "Moral Minds" by Marc D. Hauser. Even before we had any kind of scientific knowledge about it, moral was already explained centuries ago without the need of god: You won't do to others what you do not want others do to you.

  • @DuNyceBeats - You are right in that there is nothing divine about us. You are wrong when you say there is no point in morality without god. If you act well only by fear of eternal punishment in hell, then you are not being honest, and dishonesty is an immorality. Actually, science has already explained that we human beings developed moral as a competitive advantage through the evolution of our species, and that we are born with a universal "moral grammar". Remember the "Golden Rule".

  • @DuNyceBeats P.S. " To me, without God, there is no point of morality "

    - To me... whether you want there to be a point to morality or not... makes zero difference.

    " I might as well go kill and steal for food "

    - So the only reason you don't do that... is because of god? Interesting.

  • @DuNyceBeats " NOW I'm a believer... but not a "knower"

    - Well I've got no wish to bash you around either. I have very little problem with " believers "...

    I of course consider what you believe to be nonsense, and biblical prophecy terribly weak.

    But that's why people want proof, you can belief whatever you like.. but if you want to affect the lives of others.. you'd better have proof..

    Otherwise, you can wait in line with all the others beliefs.

    I believe I'm a knower ; )

  • @DuNyceBeats - You need to be held responsible for your acts in this life, because there is no after-life.

  • @DuNyceBeats " Im smarter than you shut up "

    - It's not that. This whole " fine tuning " argument is an attempt to use really high powered science ( to appear smarter ) ... so unfortunately in order to show where it's wrong, you have to be equally as " sciency ".

    As for you saying " nothing " could convince.. thats not true...

    But so far. nothing has even come close.

    If you think requiring proof is nothing but arrogance... then I've got some real estate I'd like to sell you.

  • She could teach Professor Emeritus Dr. Vera Kistiakowski, a thing or two. NOT

  • "The impossibility of natural abiogenesis is in direct conflict with a fine-tuned universe".

    Thanks for the insight. Very good!

  • Way to go, you must simplify the other's point of view, skewing it to advantage, towards your own belief and ultimately claiming victory amidst the cheers of your atheist believers. This is the only way your spin will ever gain any traction.

  • @piusvapor " Way to go, you must simplify the other's point of view "

    - Way to go.. you must've simplified your own point of view... because that was a really simply post.

    Ineffective and pointless... but simple.

  • @Roper122 Thank you for making my point. You chose" Way to go, you must simplify the other's point of view " as a point of reference and focused your opinion upon that. How utterly simple and transparent the atheist has become.

  • @piusvapor " Thank you for making my point "

    - I thought someone should make some kind of point.. since you seem incapable of doing it.

    I was just pointing out a post that had no argument and instead desperately tried to pretend that the other side wasn't as smart as you...

    and then of course you've cunningly responded with...

    a post that has no argument and instead desperately tries to pretend that the other side isn't as smart as you...

    I sense a pattern. : )

  • to conclude

    fine tuning does not prove god, it argues for it, but there are other theories like the multiverse which are possible.

    but this video still remains one of the most logically pathetic argumentation against fine tuning ( for the most part ), and what is more pathetic is that 27000 people liked it and only 52 disliked it.

    videos like these are a monument to the stupidity and irrationality of man, whether you are a theist or atheist.

  • "maybe it wasnt quite fine tuned enough"

    i loled, fine tuning is actually a good argument against creationism. why would god need to fine tune the universe if he popped life into existence.

  • "was the wind designed for wind surfing, why should we treat life any differently"

    so your saying that existence of life that has intelligence to question its existence and possible purpose is nothing more special then a rock?

    its a lot freaking special and its much much more unprobable to happen, otherwise we would see it everywhere , and you said at the start of the video that its very unlikely for life to happen on any given planet.

  • "this is the opposite of science and it shows the danger of religion"

    no its shows the danger of lack of critical thinking that people who comment on this video obviously also lack. The person most probable to be affected with uncritical thinking is the one who thinks it is immune from it because its not religious or for whatever reason..

    As much as people use " god did it" so much the people use " science did it " without knowing what science is or what did it actually do...

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  • bill o'riley is an idiot

    agree , signed, 5 star, no objection there

    "why the sun goes up and down without interruption"

    forward momentum and force of gravity.

  • "theist will have to show that the probability of god is vastly higher then the natural explanation for the constants of nature"

    why?

    if you find your home apparently robbed, do you have to show that existence of a robber is vastly more probable then the "natural explanation" of the "robbed" home, like the "wind did it",before you call the police?

    its like saying "before you enter any evidence for god you have to prove he exists"

    i mean where do you get this stuff.

  • nobody said that life in the universe is a miracle, only that its highly unprobable, and if it happens ONCE most probably it was by by an intelligence with some purpose in mind

    if it happens all the time like in the casino, then its a matter of statistic, and if you give it enough time it will inevitably happen.

    we do not know if the multiverse theory is true. It does not dismantle fine tuning argument, but because fine tuning isnt the only explanation it can be used only as evidence not proof

  • so because this remarkable, unprobable thing ( life) appears for only a second its not so unprobable...??

    it does not matter how much time passes without life in the universe, life appearing at all, even for a second is a huge thing.

  • "so it is with the constants of nature, we dont know the avilable range..."

    the available range is a group or real numbers from 0 to +infinity...

    your deck of cards ( universe) can have all the right cards ( constants) , if its made that way by intelligence... but certainly not by random chance.

  • the fine tuning argument just shows that people never got to know what science is. The constants are MAN made. Scientists just alter a model (which is always too simplistic to capture reality) to fit the experimental data. How ignorant can one be to say god fine-tuned the slope of a linear equation, when WE decide to fit the data with a line.

  • @greekmanos

    "the fine tuning argument just shows that people never got to know what science is. "

    ok im listening

    "The constants are MAN made"

    /facepalm

    no you dont know what science is

  • @niinja2 have you ever tried to analyse any experimental data and derive a model from them?

  • @greekmanos

    a few times , what about you?

  • @niinja2 can you name a few methods for fitting models to data? Can you name the simplest possible model and its parameter?

  • @greekmanos

    I didnt fit models to data i fit data to models. it was a few years ago, i dont remember everything, you load data to mathematica or matlab or whatever , and try to find graph of linear regression, so your deviation is the smallest. Basically computer does work for you, i think its "BestFit", or "LinearFit" functions in mathematica.

    simplest model i measured was measuring constant of gravity, by measuring the period of swings of physical swing, T=square root( L/g)

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  • @niinja2 ou always fit models to data. The question is how complex you want your model to be, so in many cases you may equally fit a line to data or a polynomial. We deliberately chose models with the lowest complexity so that they are computationally tractable. All models are crude approximations of reality with a lot of assumptions usually (no friction, gaussian noise on our measurements etc). We may increase the complexity if the model fails to provide answers to some questions.

  • @greekmanos

    we , as students did not chose which model we would fit to the measured data, we were offered a model and fited data to that model so that it would produce the least deviation

    but what does this have to do with the logic of the video

    it looks like your arguments imply that anyone who did not fit data at one point knows nothing about fine tuning?

  • @niinja2 well that's why the lady inserts the definition of fine tuning at 6:11. Because fine tuning is merely a process that has to do with fitting models to data. Creationists use it in an ad-hoc pseudo-scientific way. Like look at the precision of the constants of the model, wow God is wise :-) that's not fine tuning all about

  • @greekmanos

    "Like look at the precision of the constants of the model"

    well its possible that some conscousness did do it for a purpose

    what is your explanation?

  • @greekmanos

    actually i lied, i analyzed the data and tried to fit the data to current model i was taught, and if i didn't succeed i made measurements up like every student of physics at my college that failed to measure what he should due to faulty equipment.

  • @niinja2 yeah I see, this practice though doesn't teach you what science is all about, because you fabricate data to fit a pre-existing (model) hypothesis. Although you may get away with it, you won't get far in the msc or phd level, where you analyse your data and create the hypothesis afterwards. Therefore I don't think you fully understand what modeling and fine-tuning is all about. It's like you decide to fit a line to your experimental data and you fine-tune the slope.

  • @greekmanos

    "Therefore I don't think you fully understand what modeling and fine-tuning is all about."

    i understand that what we students did, was "bad" but we must do that to get a passing grade

    i dont think that you understand how science work in reality because if you come out with data that do not fit the accepted model scientists will say you probably did not measure correctly. When i measured gravity i got something like 11 m/s^2, a colleague of mine got 14...

  • @greekmanos

    "you won't get far in the msc or phd level"

    why wouldnt i get far as a Phd by repeating data somebody already measured, it only confirms the current model. I wont get far if i make my own theories that contradict current paradigm. Quantum physicists needed a few decades to push their theories, they were not accepted a while. New ideas in science come about not by rational debate, but when people who hold old ideas simply die out.

  • @niinja2 because in order to have a phd you have to contribute to knowledge, in short to suggest something novel.

  • @greekmanos

    "Therefore I don't think you fully understand what modeling and fine-tuning is all about."

    i cannot help to notice that this is ad homminem, even if i dont understand what modeling is, and i do, it has no influence on my arguments on fine tuning argument.

    And if it does then argue, dont exclude me out of conversation.

    besides i do not hold fine tuning argument to be "proof" of anything, i merely criticized the logic of this video

  • @niinja2 the lady here in my opinion just puts too many arguments in one video. But the two directions of the "fine-tuning argument" is a) the constants are so precisely tuned b) if they wouldn't be so precisely tuned we wouldn't be here. So b) we may or may not have been here, if we have been we would just have different form. For a) the answer is they are MAN made constants, so it doesn't even constitute an argument

  • @greekmanos

    "the answer is they are MAN made constants"

    erm what?

    "if we have been we would just have different form"

    erm , if we were here in any form the constants would still be finely tuned, if constants were not finely tuned we would not be here in any form

  • @niinja2 life adopted to the environment and not the other way around. Life would be different if constants were different but it would be still life. For instance having less gravitational force would lead to taller stuff. The video also makes a good point that in fact this universe is also dead by 99.9%. We just look ourselves and we see life in it.

  • @greekmanos

    "For instance having less gravitational force would lead to taller stuff."

    heaving more gravitational force for 1 part in 10 to the power of -60 would lead to no universe at all since it would collapse in itself. Some other constants that have to do with nuclear force, if they were changed for a tiny bit would cause that no atoms heavier then hydrogen could exist...

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  • @greekmanos

    excuse me but what experience or ideas do you have in modeling?

  • @niinja2 i'm post-doc researcher

  • @greekmanos

    nice , what field of science?

  • @niinja2 discrete optimisation

  • @greekmanos

    can you be more specific? discrete optimization of what?

    and btw can you respond to my last comment about "man made" constants

  • @niinja2 google discrete optimisation and read, not going to explain my research here.

  • @niinja2 I talked about fine-tuning before. Fine tuning is fitting man made and often simplistic model to observable data. Having 3,4,5 significant digits doesn't imply any divine sophistication. This is like a reverse creationist stupidity. Look at all these digits wow. God is great