Why Are We Here? Exploring The Mystery Of Existence
This episode of The Poetry Of Reality features Jack Symes in conversation with Richard Dawkins, joined by Jessica Frazier speaking on Hinduism, Silvia Jonas speaking on Jewish philosophy, and Richard Swinburne defending Christianity, you can watch it here.
Except Richard Dawkins, no one in this round was able to make any valid, objective argument with respect to the three main questions:
1. Why there’s something rather than nothing?
2. How come the laws of nature are fine tuned for the existence of intelligent life?
3. What’s the origin of life?
But Richard Swinburne really was exceptionally good in making bad arguments:
„[Mono]Theism is a very simple hypothesis. It postulates the existence of only one entity: […] god. And it postulate about him that he’s essentially everlasting and omnipotent. […] So, theism postulates that there are zero limits to god‘s length of life and zero limits to his power. Zero is a simple number and, so, the whole nature of god is a very simple nature.“
There’s obviously zero limits to the stupidity of this argument, which really is just representative for all of what Richard Swinburne’s said. I almost can’t believe that he seriously tries to put the following as a sound argument:
„If something has no limits, it’s simple because no limit is the same as zero limit and zero is a simple number.“
By this logic, you could also argue that infinite complexity has no (zero) limits and therefore, is of simple nature. This is so incredibly dumb, that really only a deluded theist can think it would make any sense!
This appears to be a rebroadcast of the August 16th episode Unlike wine, . . .