Regarding the proof of complexity

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asked 4 years ago

Hello Rabbi,
Regarding the evidence from the planning.
There’s something I don’t understand. To prove that God exists from the complexity of the universe, we need to know two things. One, what is the chance that the universe would have been created this way. And two, we need to show that this chance is low enough to be considered to have been caused by a deliberate hand.
However, how can we even calculate the probability that the universe would be created like this? We do not have the ability to observe the entire universe and measure the probability of each object reaching the state it is in.
Let alone, to even talk about the fact that the chances are so low that God created them.
What am I missing?

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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago

You miss the point that there is no need for calculation. This is not a quantitative probabilistic consideration but a common sense argument. Such a complex universe is unlikely to have been created by chance. In my book God Plays Dice and in its summary here on the site, I argued that it is not about the complexity of objects and their locations but about the complexity of the laws of nature that cause all this. I went into great detail about this in the third notebook and in the third conversation in the first post.

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