Reddit reply in r/PhilosophyMemes: your mom is an anthropic principle — November 27, 2024 | Ali Shukri Amin
Original discussion: your mom is an anthropic principle.
1. If your argument is that non-physical life doesn't need a finely-tuned universe therefore the FTA is made irrelevant because Abrahamic faiths believe in non-physical life, I don't see the point. You're assuming someone proposing the FTA believes non-physical entities don't also have limitations or needs which this universe caters to, but simply rests their argument on the empirical realities and kinds of life we can all agree on seeing.
2. This is true until we begin dividing kinds of improbable events into classes. Theoretically, you cannot infer conscious action simply due to the improbability of an event. That's until the very nature of the event in question raises the question of conscious behavior, in which case improbability does correspond with willfulness.
An example is the appearance of a chair in the woods. It's certainly possible that through a series of totally random events, natural processes constructed a chair. However, the deeper in the woods you find this chair and the more specifically (seemingly) designed this chair is for a purpose (such as a gaming chair or a particular brand of chair) - the more probable a human made it and put it out there.
3. You can draw inference and analogy between lesser forms of intelligence to greater forms of intelligence. Just because God is of some incomprehensible superintelligence doesn't mean you can't understand broad strokes of what He does, especially if He designed us specifically TO understand those things. In the Quran, examples are actually given of a universe headed by multiple gods and a universe that doesn't have a god, so that you could compare these theoretical (presented as irrational) possibilities with the current universe.
4. You are assuming, given an infinite set of universes, that you will experience actualization of every improbability. The concept of "Almost Surely" in statistics disagrees. Just because you have a theoretically infinite run where eventually you would see all improbabilities doesn't mean they would actually manifest in an actual infinite run.
Also, there's no concrete evidence of infinite universes or a multiverse theory.
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