> I am also not sure that your dismissal of the argument as "run-of-the-mill anti-theist cosmology". I didn't mean to be dismissive, just to point out that the

> I am also not sure that your dismissal of the argument as "run-of-the-mill anti-theist cosmology". I didn't mean to be dismissive, just to point out that the article is old (1998) and that most of HN's more learned readers would've already seen these arguments in one form or another. > If you'll pardon me for a blunt characterization, you seem to have an axe to grind about theism. Parfit's agenda is pretty clearly anti-theist, I think I'm pretty on-topic. If anything, I have an axe to grind with philosophy of science.