Information Complication (General)

by dhw, Tuesday, November 24, 2015, 11:52 (3285 days ago) @ David Turell

(I am reproducing the relevant sections of this exchange in order to illustrate the problems that emerge from David's anthropocentric version of God's thinking.) -dhw: (a lump of rock floating around in space) exists and acts without intelligence. Multiply this example a zillion times, and you have a universe doing the same.-DAVID: Can't let this pass. This universe exists as a precisely organized construct which evolved finely tuned to allow life. -Dhw: Is it then part of your belief that every single solar system, past and present, in the history of our universe was and is finely tuned to allow for life on Earth?-DAVID: No. There are a zillion solar systems in this universe, and only ours has life. In past universes there may or may not have been life. We only know ours.
-Thank you. If the rest of the zillion solar systems were not finely tuned to allow for life on Earth, we are left with the problem of why your God created them, when apparently his aim in creating the universe was to produce us. It's a similar problem to that of the vast variety of earthly species, lifestyles and wonders (mainly extinct) which he apparently created in order to produce humans. It really doesn't seem logical to me. Your response to that on Sunday was: “God and Occam are not compatible. Human reasoning and Occam are compatible. Why do you think God thinks like you do?” Is it not possible, in your view, that your God and Occam ARE compatible, and that these inexplicable inconsistencies are due to the fact that your reading of your God's mind might be wrong?