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Mon 9 Jun, 2014 03:51 am
1) What does "the entities" refer to?
2) What does "The very opposite has to be said of any kind of intelligence" mean? The opposite to what?
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extravagant God hypothesis and the apparently extravagant multi-
verse hypothesis is one of statistical improbability. The multiverse,
for all that it is extravagant, is simple. God, or any intelligent,
decision-taking, calculating agent, would have to be highly im-
probable in the very same statistical sense as the entities he is
supposed to explain. The multiverse may seem extravagant in sheer
number of universes. But if each one of those universes is simple in
its fundamental laws, we are still not postulating anything highly
improbable. The very opposite has to be said of any kind of
intelligence.
Some physicists are known to be religious (Russell Stannard and
OristarA wrote:
What does "the entities" refer to?
"The entities" refers to the universe, the world, you, me, etc. The things that God is supposed to explain.
OristarA wrote:
What does "The very opposite has to be said of any kind of intelligence" mean? The opposite to what?
It means the opposite to postulating anything highly improbable, like each one of those universes in a multiverse which are simple in their fundamental laws, according to Dawkins' assertion.
@InfraBlue,
InfraBlue wrote:
OristarA wrote:
What does "the entities" refer to?
"The entities" refers to the universe, the world, you, me, etc. The things that God is supposed to explain.
OristarA wrote:
What does "The very opposite has to be said of any kind of intelligence" mean? The opposite to what?
It means the opposite to postulating anything highly improbable, like each one of those universes in a multiverse which are simple in their fundamental laws, according to Dawkins' assertion.
But for any kind of intelligence，we should be postulating anything highly improbable?
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:But for any kind of intelligence，we should be postulating anything highly improbable?
He's saying that any kind of intelligence is highly improbable.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
Should "hypothesis is one of statistical improbability" be "hypothesis is one of statistical improbabilities"?
What is the rest of the sentence?
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:extravagant God hypothesis and the apparently extravagant multi-verse hypothesis is one of statistical improbability.
It looks like you've clipped the sentence.
@oristarA,
It basically means that we aren't postulating anything highly improbable, and since anything intelligent would be doing so, we are not intelligent.
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