In his book "Arguing About Gods", Oppy offers some robust objections to the first premise of Bayesian fine-tuning arguments, challenging the low probability amount assigned to a life-permitting universe on Naturalism.

Direct personal experience of divine hiddenness.

If the world were the result of a perfect creator acting for the best possible moral reasons, our belief that some suffering is in fact gratuitous would be hopelessly misguided. Yet, our perception of such suffering is not so misguided; therefore, there is no perfect creator.

When Satan worshippers are as numerous and intrusive as Christian Nationalists, I'll be all over that imaginary son of a bitch.

All physical events could theoretically be described by mathematical language if we had exhaustive knowledge of physics Miracles are physical events whose underlying mathematical grounding would entail a logical contradiction. ... Therefore, miracles cannot obtain in reality QED

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Banger from Emerson Green's recent livecstream: If Theism is true then universalism is probably true. If universalism is true, then Christianity is false. If Theism is true, then Christianity is probably false.

magats have been stockpiling weapons for generations to take on a potential authoritarian government and when that government finally shows up the fucking idiots support it 🤦‍♀️

Hell yeah. Education rocks. 🤘

The problem of evil is that gratuitous evils are incompatible with an all-powerful and morally perfect God, but there seem to be such evils. The problem of theodicy is to produce plausible claims that imply there’re no actual gratuitous evils. This project fails if there are any.

Bootlickers are out in full force.

Ghosts and Physicalism w/ Micah Edvenson youtu.be/rOkHgN6Fo-4

They wouldn't. 👀 👀 👀 You're SO close...

Hot take: Extreme correlation and predictability between physical states and mental phenomena is actually pretty good evidence for physicalism.