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    The actual distribution and quality of intelligent life c... — Carmelics
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    The actual distribution and quality of intelligent life constitutes evidence against omni-theism relative to source physicalism

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    • 1.Under omni-theism, an omnipotent creator would not be constrained to produce intelligence via the only mechanism that physics permits without supernatural intervention.
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    • 2.Source physicalism predicts intelligence emerges only where matter self-organizes under blind natural law, making sparse, morally unguided results statistically expected.
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    • 3.The gap between what omni-theism leads us to expect and what we observe is a genuine likelihood differential that favors source physicalism by Bayesian inference, as argued by Paul Draper's evidential asymmetry framework.
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    • 1.John Stuart Mill observed in 'Three Essays on Religion' that nature's indifference to suffering is a positive mark against a benevolent omnipotent designer, not merely an absence of confirming evidence.
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    • 2.The specific qualitative character of human cognition—riddled with cognitive biases, tribalism, and evolutionary heuristics optimized for survival rather than truth or virtue—is precisely what unguided natural selection predicts.
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    • 3.An omni-benevolent God with the means to instantiate intelligence directly would have no motive to embed it in architectures systematically prone to moral failure, making this design signature a likelihood disconfirmer for omni-theism.
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    • 1.If omni-theism is true and fine-tuning was divinely intended to produce intelligent life, the universe should be teeming with intelligent life
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    • 2.The universe is not teeming with intelligent life
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    • 3.The most impressive intelligent organisms known to exist are merely human beings, who are self-centered, aggressive, and frequently commit atrocities such as killing, rape, and torture
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    Similar problems threaten to undermine appeals to fine-tuning—that is, appeals to the fact that a number of apparently independent physical parameters have values that, while not fixed by current physical theory, nevertheless happen to fall within a relatively narrow “life-permitting” range assuming no changes to other parameters. Arguably, given that fine-tuning is required for intelligent life and that an omni-God has reason to create intelligent life, we have more reason to expect fine-tuning
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