Objective moral values aren’t just my opinion, because some things like torturing babies for fun, are wrong regardless of anyone’s opinion. On the infinite past, God is timeless, so He’s not in the same sequence of days as the universe. On information, DNA meets the definition scientists use, and all our uniform repeated experience is that information comes from a mind. On fine tuning, the constants of physics could be otherwise, and the range that allows life is unimaginably narrow, which is why even many atheists call it fine tuning. The simplest explanation for a finite universe is a timeless, spaceless cause, not another physical universe, which would just push the problem back
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A timeless, spaceless cause also just pushes the problem back.
Why does God exist? What caused God? The ultimate answer is you don't know.
I don't know what caused outer space to exist or the Big Bang to happen (if it did), and I call my unknowing "ignorance". You don't know either, but you call your unknowing "God".
I think you missed my point about the constants of physics.
First, when you say they "could be otherwise" I believe you are just mistaken. I think a more accurate claim is that we can imagine what would happen if they were otherwise.
Secondly, even if the constants of physics could be other than as they are now, this does not imply that the current values are unlikely. If whatever process generates universes almost always generates one with the constants of physics we now observe, then it is unsurprising that we have them and observe them. In order for you to claim it is surprising that we observe the constants of physics as we do, you need to show that whatever process generated these constants was more likely to pick other values. Failing that, it's simply your opinion.
"Things like torturing babies for fun are wrong regardless of anyone's opinion"
This is just an opinion that everyone shares. If it's more than that, prove it.
"On the infinite past, God is timeless, so He's not in the same sequence of days as the universe"
How do you know?
"all our uniform repeated experience is that information comes from a mind"
DNA is actually a great counter-example here, but not the only one. Plants have been shown to send chemical signals to each other which seem to convey information (eg I am being attacked by bug X so prepare your chemical defenses).
If you insist these were created by God and thus evidence of information being created by a mind, that is the claim these examples were meant to prove, so you are begging the question (a form of circular reasoning).
"The simplest explanation for a finute universe is a timeless, spaceless cause, not another physical universe, which would just push the problem back", except your "solution" also just pushes the problem back. I stop at what we can know and admit I know no more. You take it a step further, claiming to know what caused the known, but you don't claim to know what caused the unknown, just that it is a timeless spaceless consciousness that can cause things, for which you have no proof. This is not a better explanation than just saying "I don't know" what caused the universe.