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This assumes that God would want us to believe in Him and that too in a very obvious way. None of this follows from just the idea that God is All PowerfulBaby_philosopher– Baby_philosopher2024-02-01 10:49:23 +00:00Commented Feb 1, 2024 at 10:49
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Which part of my answer do you reference with that comment, @Baby_philosopher?AnoE– AnoE2024-02-01 11:11:58 +00:00Commented Feb 1, 2024 at 11:11
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I don't completely agree with this answer. Though technically any message is possible to be result of chance, this gets exponentially less likely the longer the message. The message might well have a chance of like 1 / 10³⁰ to appear in a given spot of the sky just big enough to be able to in principle capture such a constellation given bounds imposed by minimum star size and limits of the observable universe. There will be a finite number of such spot we can possibly observe, say 10¹². That means it's 1 / 10¹⁸ unlikely that we would end up in such a universe. ...leftaroundabout– leftaroundabout2024-02-01 21:41:43 +00:00Commented Feb 1, 2024 at 21:41
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...Basically we're just refuting a null hypothesis here. How much unlikelyness is required to justify this will depend on what prior likelihood you assign to the existance of god, but for any prior un-likelihood there will be a message-length that demands this conclusion anyway.leftaroundabout– leftaroundabout2024-02-01 21:41:48 +00:00Commented Feb 1, 2024 at 21:41
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Finding something in the digits of pi is different, or at least it would be if it were proven that pi is normal as conjectured. In that case, we could consider its digit as a properly infinite resource in which an arbitrarily unlikely subsequence still has probability 1 to eventually appear. But this kind of argument is not possible with anything we actually need to observe physically.leftaroundabout– leftaroundabout2024-02-01 21:48:51 +00:00Commented Feb 1, 2024 at 21:48
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