Answer by Chris Sunami for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence...
Ultimately, for a person of faith, what makes something a miracle isn't if it's rare, or inexplicable, or awe-inspiring, or impossible. It's that you see the hand of God in it, and that's more a...
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let’s assume that you could somehow know that a) this isn’t a hallucination and b) humans could not have designed this (after all, they’re stars) and c) no intelligent, physical life form that could...
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Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify a designer?First, we need to rephrase the basic idea. For example:Suppose someone looking at the sky tonight realises that the constellations that we...
View ArticleAnswer by Cheese for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify a...
I think that this has some room for questioning, like how clear the selling of "god is real" Does it look like connects the dots or is it in the sense very clearly spelled out if it isn't very clearly...
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I have good news. If you look at the Hubble deep field pictures herehttps://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/universe-uncovered/hubble-deep-fields/I am sure you can pick out come subset of those...
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Would this be enough to conclude that a supernatural being designed this?That would not be enough for me to conclude that a supernatural cause was behind it. The big hurdle there is I do not know if...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify a...
I would probably start believing there's some kind of deity at that point, sure. Not any of the deities on offer by the major religions, but a deity nonetheless.
View ArticleAnswer by SacrificialEquation for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence...
If such an event is possible where stars spell out “God is real” then it would collapse our understanding of the theories of how the world works or how the universe works. It will initiate a new wave...
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Suppose you looked out at the night sky and saw the stars literally spell out a sentence saying, “God is real.”Now, as a thought experiment, let’s assume that you could somehow know thata) this isn’t a...
View ArticleAnswer by AnoE for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify a...
If we saw such a thing, we could conclude nothing at all.The exact location of stars and galaxies are for all means and purposes a random process, there is a non-zero possibility to find any...
View ArticleAnswer by Dikran Marsupial for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence...
If you follow Dawkins, then God is a delusion, i.e. it is objectively false. In that case no level of evidence will convince you otherwise, and it is more likely that you will think it is an optical...
View ArticleAnswer by m.reiter for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify a...
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of...
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The stars have spoken since time immemorial. Better and better we understand what they say:Not “God exists", but “Science is working.” Celestial mechanics, Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle, stellar evolution,...
View ArticleAnswer by Ian Sudbery for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify...
One way framework I havn't yet seen this discussed in (at least formally) above is formal statisitcs.When we you sayIntuitively, and instinctively, the answer to me seems yeswhat you are really saying...
View ArticleAnswer by Dcleve for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify...
The answers here reinforce the point of the Quine-Duhem thesis. All theories are underconstrained by observation. What this means is all advocates of a theory are able to find patches to rationalize...
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Presumably a violation of a law of nature, but the definition variesBeyond all of these considerations, some authors have made a case forthe restriction of the term “miracle” to events that...
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify belief...
Intuitively, and instinctively, the answer to me seems yes.Why?First, in which language and writing system? Why would a hypothetical creator use that, specifically?Two, how clearly? Humans have been...
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If we saw such a thing, we could conclude nothing at all.The exact location of stars and galaxies are for all means and purposes a random process, there is a non-zero possibility to find any...
View ArticleAnswer by Dikran Marsupial for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence...
If you follow Dawkins, then God is a delusion, i.e. it is objectively false. In that case no level of evidence will convince you otherwise, and it is more likely that you will think it is an optical...
View ArticleAnswer by m.reiter for Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify...
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of...
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