Stephen Meyer - Discovery Institute

[Sheldon]

@Sherlock-Holmes

any claim about probabilities being high or low must be accompanied by data that supports the claim

@Sherlock-Holmes

The proposition “The earth was created six thousand years ago with an inbuilt appearance of being much older” cannot be proven false using scientific arguments.

Any data to support it?

@Sherlock-Holmes

I’d not venture an opinion about probabilities without some metrics to support it.

Oh really, lets take a look at your track record on that:

@Sheldon

1. How is a deity possible?
2. Where did this deity come from?
3. How is the supernatural power to create a universe possible?
4. Where does the supernatural power to create a universe come from?
5. How did a deity use supernatural powers to create the universe.

@Sherlock-Holmes

1. How is a deity possible? [Which part are you struggling with]
2. Where did this deity come from? [I don’t know]
3. How is the supernatural power to create a universe possible? [Why is anything possible]
4. Where does the supernatural power to create a universe come from? [From outside the universe]
5. How did a deity use supernatural powers to create the universe. [By the use of will]

@Sheldon

@Sherlock-Holmes

unless we have an initial belief we cannot develop new beliefs.

@Sherlock-Holmes

@Sheldon

where does that initial belief come from?

I have no idea…

@Sherlock-Holmes

we can conclude that the human mind must hold at least one initial belief, …it cannot be based on some other belief because it is the first belief.

@Sherlock-Holmes

@Sheldon

where does that initial belief come from?

I have no idea,

That’ll do for now.