<br />
<b>Deprecated</b>:  Function add_custom_image_header is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 3.4.0! Use add_theme_support( 'custom-header', $args ) instead. in <b>/home/aron/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php</b> on line <b>6131</b><br />
<br />
<b>Deprecated</b>:  Function add_custom_background is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 3.4.0! Use add_theme_support( 'custom-background', $args ) instead. in <b>/home/aron/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php</b> on line <b>6131</b><br />
{"id":6199,"date":"2017-01-07T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T03:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:07:08","slug":"barnes-fine-tuning-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/barnes-fine-tuning-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes Fine Tuning Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fortunate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6200\" title=\"fortunate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fortunate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"842\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was asked by <a href=\"http:\/\/ratiochristi.org\/rutgers\">Ratio Christi<\/a>\u2014a group at Rutgers that I&#8217;ve spoken to a <a title=\"Ratio Christi talk [UPDATED]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/ratio-christi-talk\/\">couple<\/a> <a title=\"Ratio Christi talk on Fine Tuning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/ratio-christi-talk-on-fine-tuning\/\">times<\/a> in the past\u2014to advertise the talk above.\u00a0 It will be on <em><strong>Feb 20th<\/strong><\/em> at <em><strong>7pm<\/strong><\/em>, at the\u00a0New Brunswick Theological Seminary.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1903944053159221\/?notif_t=plan_user_joined&amp;notif_id=1481317048987373#\">this post<\/a> on their Facebook page for more details.<\/p>\n<p>It will be by (St?) Luke Barnes, a cosmologist who recently coauthored a book with Geraint Lewis, about the Fine Tuning of the Laws of Nature to permit live.\u00a0 I advertised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.usyd.edu.au\/~luke\/book\/\">their book<\/a> on spec, before I read it, at the end of my own talk on <a title=\"Slides for Fining Tuning talk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/slides-for-fining-tuning-talk\/\">Fine Tuning<\/a>.\u00a0 I knew it was going to be worth reading because of the high quality of commentary on Luke&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/letterstonature.wordpress.com\/\">Letters to Nature<\/a>.\u00a0 Luke is not afraid to critique foolish comments made by people on both sides, and his honesty in presenting the data is impeccable.<\/p>\n<p>Over the holidays I read his book and wrote extensive notes in it (I never write in books!) and I will be posting a review of the book when I get around to it.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone here decides to go, I&#8217;m sure you won&#8217;t regret it.\u00a0 Unfortunately I won&#8217;t be there since I have a prior\u00a0commitment in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked by Ratio Christi\u2014a group at Rutgers that I&#8217;ve spoken to a couple times in the past\u2014to advertise the talk above.\u00a0 It will be on Feb 20th at 7pm, at the\u00a0New Brunswick Theological Seminary.\u00a0 See this post on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/barnes-fine-tuning-talk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7052,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}