I present a breakdown of this video, from start to finish, giving the timestamps of where it is wrong, false, inaccurate or downright untruthful.
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Scientists have come to the shocking realization that each of these values has been dialled into an astonishingly precise value…
No. Scientists don’t use the word DIALLED because that is a loaded word, implying that someone adjusted the dial. Science is an agnostic discipline that says nothing about religious or theological matters. Professional scientists don’t do that.
1:55
A change in the cosmological constant by one part in ten to 120 would cause the universe to expand too fast or too slowly. In either case, again the universe would be life prohibiting.
2:05 to 2:20
The pie chart is wrong because the heading of the diagram is Matter and Energy. It does not show Dark Energy, which constitutes 69% of the total mass and energy of the universe. So, it is not an accurate representation of the energy in this universe. This is.
Did Doctor Craig leave out Dark Energy from his video because he knows that it fucks up his claim that the universe is finely-tuned for life? According to him, if the physical constants deviated by even the tiniest amount, no life would be possible in the universe.
But what’s this? Dark energy varies over time? How can that be if everything is finely tuned?
Universe’s expansion ‘is now slowing, not speeding up’ | The Royal Astronomical Society
2:30 to 3:00
The comments of three notable scientists are quote mined out of context. Doing this is also the logical fallacy of an Appeal to Authority.
Argument from authority - Wikipedia
Scientific knowledge is best established by evidence and experiment rather than argued through authority as authority has no place in science. Carl Sagan wrote of arguments from authority: “One of the great commandments of science is, ‘Mistrust arguments from authority.’ … Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong. Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else.”
3:48 Chance
The Multiverse Generator cannot be detected, observed, measured, or proved.
This statement is both false and incorrect. Empirical science, which detects, observes and measures things, cannot be used to prove anything. Proofs only exist in mathematics and in logic.
Also, in 2014, scientists thought they had detected, observed and measured the Multiverse Generator. This generator is more properly known as the Inflaton field. This is the energy field that ‘inflated’ the universe according to the Inflation theorem. But, according to Inflation theorem, it isn’t just responsible for inflating only our universe. It will also have inflated trillions of other universes, creating a Multiverse.
True, none of these other separate universes will ever be directly observed. But if the signature of the Inflaton field is detected in OUR universe (as was thought in 2014) then the existence of these other universes would be difficult to deny. An Inflaton field here, in this universe, requires there to be an Inflaton field elsewhere, in other universes. You can’t have one without the other. Inflation here means inflation elsewhere, even if we can’t directly detect, measure or observe it.
Besides, science is full of examples of things that cannot be directly detected, but which are still considered to exist and to be real. Take the Higgs boson, discovered in 2012. Was it directly detected? No. Was it directly observed? No. Was it directly measured? No.
All that we know about that particle comes from its effect on other particles that we can detect, observe, and measure. All that we know about the Higgs boson comes to us by inference alone.
So, if the Inflaton field was detected then logic will oblige us to consider these other universes to be just as real as ours.
5:13
So, even if the Multiverse existed, which is a moot point, it wouldn’t do anything to explain the fine-tuning.
This is an out and out lie.
Yes, the Multiverse would explain all of the fine-tuning in our universe very well indeed. It would also do so NATURALLY, without the need to invoke a supernatural fine-tuner like God. It would be an entirely naturalistic, scientific explanation of fine-tuning.
The reason for this is when the Inflaton field inflates a new universe, the physical constants inside that universe are decidedly randomly, by pure and unguided chance. If a sufficient number of universes are inflated then it will inevitably result in a universe like ours. It’s like tossing a trillion coins into the air all at once. Do that often enough and eventually on one toss all the coins will land heads up. That’s just statistics.
5:30 to 5:59
A repeat of the logical fallacy of the Argument from Authority.
6:00 to 6:20
Here we see the great leap from science to religion.
But it’s a leap that does not work. Science proceeds by evidence and not by faith. Religion proceeds by faith and not by evidence. So, they are mutually incompatible. They are two utterly different systems of thought that cannot and do not work together. But there’s an even greater problem glossed over by this jump from science to scripture.
Science can say nothing about the identity of the fine-tuner. Nowhere in science and nowhere in the entire universe is there a single scrap of evidence that NAMES the fine-tuner of the universe. Any identification of who the fine-tuner is… is done, not through science, but through faith.
Which is why Muslims identify the fine-tuner as Allah. Why Jews identify him as Yahweh. Why Sikhs identify him as Waheguru. Why the Zoroastrians identify him as Ahura Mazda. And why Christians identify him as Jesus.
It’s a level playing field between all of these candidate creator Gods. Because there’s no scientific evidence specifically identifying who the creator and fine-tuner is, any one of these gods could be the culprit. And any follower of any of them can make an equally good claim that it was their god who did the fine-tuning.
But this nasty little problem goes unsaid and unmentioned. We jump right into scripture as if the Christian bible is the logical and necessary conclusion to the question, ‘Who is the fine-tuner?’
All in all this video is just a gallimaufry of lies, half-truths and disinformation, served up in the guise of a scientifically accurate exposition of the facts and of logic.
It isn’t. Don’t trust it and don’t believe it.
Thank you,
Walter.
