PHOTOS: Melissa and Joe Gorga Show Off Their New Backyard

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• PHOTOS: RHONJ’s Melissa Gorga Shows Off Redone Home
• Melissa Gorga Teases RHONJ Season 14 "Plot Twist"
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• Inside Melissa Gorga's Gorgeous Kitchen
• 'RHONJ's Melissa Gorga Gives a Stunning House Tour and Talks 18-Year Marriage to Joe (Exclusive)

At the end of the video, an excited Gorga, 42, is seen jumping off construction materials in front of the property as Ciara's "Level Up" plays. On Instagram Sunday, the Real Housewives of New Jersey star shared a behind-the-scenes look at the progress on the construction of the family's massive new mansion. She also gave her fans and followers a tour of her kitchen, saying she and Joe “love to entertain” as she included glimpses at the massive space, including the white room’s two large islands and four chandeliers. The massive undertaking and renovation project -- which also gave the mansion a gorgeous outdoor patio, a huge media and entertainment center and a kitchen -- will feature prominently during the upcoming season of RHONJ. The family moved into their brand-new estate in November 2022, which features six bedrooms, a glass wall office, two built-in bars, a poker room and gym.

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First, she shared a close-up look at the burning fireplace and eye-catching chandelier as she watched old episodes of RHONJ. Later in the day, she showed the rest of the room’s neutral-hued furniture and decor, including built-in shelves, light curtains, wood floors, a light gray couch, a round white coffee table, and a gray-and-white rug. Despite the negative reviews from some social media users, the Gorgas appear to be thrilled with their new build. Joe Gorga shared photos to Instagram on move-in day, including one of his wife all smiles as she stood on the upper level of the home in front of an ornate banister. I’m gonna keep posting all of the renovations as it goes along so watch [Joe Gorga and] I do what we do best!!

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She also got rid of a lot of the gold on the fireplace and the ceiling. Still, some features remained untouched—including the double staircase in the foyer and the elegant blue dining room. Since moving into her family’s stunning new home in November 2022, Melissa Gorga has been slowly sharing a detailed look at each room in the house. As we’ve seen from Instagram posts, The Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member’s new digs include a primary bedroom with “the most unique lighting,” Melissa’s “dream closet,” a sleek white kitchen, and a beautiful exterior. "Our family home for the last 12 years is officially sold," the mom of three captioned her post, sharing a slideshow of photos of the property.

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This is going to be a long road with COVID and everything it’s really tough to get materials and everything is taking double the amount of time to get in,” the Envy founder explained. The first floor of the six-bedroom 3,500-square-foot house featured an open floor plan accented by pale wooden floors and large windows. The airy front sitting room led directly into a modern all-white kitchen featuring quartz countertops and stainless steel appliances. A spacious dining room also oozed beachy vibes, with a rustic chandelier and bay windows that looked out on the shore. The spectacular views continued into the adjacent living room, which featured a marble central fireplace and a large couch. Later in the episode, an open house for pre-qualified buyers further highlighted the issues.

As seen in Melissa’s post and Instagram Story photos, the room is furnished in a neutral color scheme and boasts a fireplace, a cozy seating area, and light wood floors. As for the outside of the home, the RHONJ star and her husband recently showcased their luxurious backyard as they hosted a party for their daughter Antonia Gorga‘s prom. "We are one of the longest-standing couples on reality TV in general. [So] there's a lot of noise out there and we've learned to tune it out and not listen to it," she added. This upcoming season is also set to feature quite a bit of drama -- both between Melissa and sister-in-law Teresa Giudice, and over claims of infidelity leveled against Melissa, which she's staunchly denied multiple times. Other unique elements of Melissa's impressive estate include two built-in bars -- including one full-sized bar/lounge downstairs, which comes complete with a private poker room and an impressively decked-out gym room. ET's Brice Sander joined the Real Housewives of New Jersey star at her home in the Garden State and chatted with the reality star about her new, six-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot abode.

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The mansion has six bedrooms, seven-and-a-half bathrooms, and includes a recording studio, movie theater, two-story library, gym, salon, walk-in wine cellar and custom lounge. It's set on over two acres of land, and the backyard features a pool, outdoor kitchen and entertainment space. Later during the move-in weekend, Melissa gave fans a look at the entire exterior of the house. "My family and I have so many amazing memories in this house; Joe and I built and designed it from the ground up," Melissa told PEOPLE back in 2017 of their decision to put the house up for sale.

Melissa and Joe took out a very large loan to make the necessary upgrades to their home. With that money purchased the property on Indian Trail Dr and knocked down the previous home to build their current McMansion. Then, in January 2023, the couple refinanced and took out an additional $565k on their house. Reality fans will just have to stay tuned for now, as the new season of the Real Housewives of New Jersey premiers on Tuesday, February 7 at 9 p.m.

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Though the Gorgas have moved around a bunch, Melissa doesn't plan to move again... Except in one specific circumstance, she told the audience at BravoCon 2023. “Love waking up here,” Melissa posted on Instagram of her new space in January 2023. Unfortunately, even with the upgrades and the lower price tag, they did not have better luck this time around, and they later quietly took it off the market. Then, they put the property back up for sale for $3.29 million about a year later, de-listed it again in February, and re-listed it in April for $2.948 million. In the episode, Melissa and Joe met with their realtor, but they weren’t happy due to the lack of showings he was producing.

Can’t wait to show you inside,” Melissa teased on November 20, along with a slideshow of photos of her and Joe’s latest renovation, which they purchased last June for $950,000. The kitchen features serene blonde wood floors, bright white cabinets, and sleek white counterops. We also saw brass details throughout the room with some eye-catching light fixtures hanging above the double kitchen islands while a statement-making white hood hung over the large stove range.

On April 21, Melissa hopped on her Instagram Stories to share a behind-the-scenes look at dinner time in the Gorga household. In the video, we saw Melissa's husband, Joe Gorga, sitting at one of the kitchen islands while their two sons, Joey and Gino (and a few pals), took control of the meal. "It's family values, how we raise our children and how hard we work. We work very hard. You have to work hard in life and never take it easy. Always stay humble and keep going because you don't know when God could take it away from you." Melissa’s other major focal point for the home build was a large closet area, and in her November 26 Instagram Stories, she showed the finished results. While her white closet has lighting she’s “obsessed” with, Joe’s brown-and-white closet has a “masculine touch” that Melissa noted she loves. “I’d say the fan favorites are definitely when Joe and I are on together and we're talking about relationships; just funny couples’ stuff that goes on in our house,” she says.

Although the Gorgas officially moved into their new home in November of 2022, it wasn’t until June 2023 that their vision was fully complete. On June 24, Melissa revealed the home’s newly updated facade on Instagram, which included a remodel of the roof, new windows, and a section painted black. This attempt at a sale had a very different outcome from the one in Montville. "We put it on the market [and] within three days we got three full-price offers. I got cold feet, and I did not take the offers, and I pulled it off the market," Melissa told BravoTV.com. "So for everyone who is asking, I'm not selling the shore house. Not this year. Yes, I would eventually love to work our way to the Hamptons. But it's just, I'm not ready." Perhaps the most exciting upgrade, however, wasn't inside the house at all.

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• ‘RHONJ’: Melissa Gorga on Calling Out Toxicity and Where She and Teresa Giudice Go From Here
• 'RHONJ'' s Melissa Gorga Shares a Peek at Construction of New Jersey Mansion: 'Time for a Change'
• MANSION IN THE MAKING
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The Gorgas have been active in the New Jersey real estate market in recent years outside of Joe’s house-flipping business. The pair sold a Paterson investment property that they purchased in 2018 for $149,000 last year for $525,000, turning a nice profit on the deal. "Joe has flipped hundreds of properties since he was 20 years old," the representative said. "He has a very successful real estate business and relied on a social media person in his office who helped him with all that stuff. Unfortunately, it was just an error that person made that Joe didn't catch."

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The Real Housewives of New Jersey stars have finally sold their 16-room, 9,100-square-foot home, Melissa confirmed via Instagram on Monday. According to property records, the home sold for $2.5 million on December 14. In photos posted to Facebook, we see that the Gorga’s new home no longer has multiple pointed roofs.

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According to Melissa, she was inspired by the "glitz and glamour of the roaring 20s" when designing her master bedroom. The fireplace and marble wall are impressive, but the rest of the room is giving "hotel suite."  The lighting fixtures are amazing. A few more extravagant touches like that would've made the room pop. The Real Housewives of New Jersey couple has a chic and cozy living space in their new abode.

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The RHONJ couple has created a more pleasing balance to their home by adding an extension that includes a front porch and additional windows. Then in January 2023, the couple refinanced and took out an additional $565k on their house. One Reddit user wrote that the structure and design were “odd and off-putting.” “This house reminds me of me building my very first sims house when I was 10 years old,” the Redditor cracked. In the clip, Melissa revealed she designed the entire house, but the pandemic had presented challenges in getting materials.

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Melissa, 41, and Joe, 42, purchased the property, which is located in the affluent "Pond" section of Montville, for $950,000 in 2007, according to property records. They then worked together to design and custom-build the current home. Melissa teased the move to her new family home in an Instagram post on November 19, 2022. In one photo, she posed with her daughter, Antonia, with moving boxes all around them. The new photos come just weeks after Melissa shared a series of photos and videos on her Instagram Story that featured the interior of her home, including the foyer and nearby spaces. The clip shows the expansive exterior of the house before the mom of three reveals the work being done on the inside.

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"It was a new construction, the foundation was new," Svensson told Good Morning America, noting that Joe couldn't have flipped because it was built so recently. "Everything about it was new. It was built from the ground up." Joe found himself in hot water in February over a questionable Instagram post about his house-flipping business. The entrepreneur came under fire for a since-deleted photo shared on his personal Instagram page, which featured a house-flipping project he claimed was completed by his company. "I am truly honored to have been chosen by Melissa and Joe Gorga to represent them with the sale of their Montville, NJ home," Baris told PEOPLE of the listing in July. "With the combination of Joe's quality construction and my unique online marketing techniques, we are confident that together we will successfully sell this incredible custom-built estate."

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I have a pretty strong presence on social media and feel like that's a form of entertainment." The family’s residence, which the couple built “from the ground up” and which was completed in 2009, had been on and off the market for years without enticing a buyer. The six-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom mansion appeared as a backdrop in the long-running reality show. More recently, Melissa gave a peek inside her living room, and we’re obsessed with the cozy yet glam details. On January 29, Melissa documented a Sunday at home on her Instagram Stories.

In March 2023, former RHONJ star Kim DePaola told the “Behind the Velvet Rope With David Yontef” podcast that friends told her the Gorgas were already “ripping the whole front down” of their house due to criticism of the design. In June 2023, Melissa Gorga shared a photo on Instagram after the exterior of her mansion was updated. And while she pointed to the pandemic as the cause for problems with the original build, some followers weren’t having it. A representative for Joe told PEOPLE the post was simply an error made by his social media manager.

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“All the relatable, family, couples’ things are what the fans of the podcast love most." REALITY housewife Melissa Gorga has her new massive mansion decked out with Christmas lights the same day the her family moves in. In the photos, Melissa showed off her stunning pool flanked with black lounge chairs and matching umbrellas, along with two giant daybeds. The pool also features a waterfall and two fire and water bowls. This week, Melissa Gorga shared photos on social media showing off the gorgeous backyard at her freshly renovated home in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.

Melissa and Joe have been married for 18 years, they share three children, and they know exactly how to stay strong and stay happy amid the reality show madness. "You can imagine the Real Housewives of New Jersey men, and the games of poker they are going to play in this room," she shared, adding that, as part of the deal with her husband, Joe Gorga, she got the glass room and he got the poker room. The couple has a toasty fireplace underneath their entertainment center in the master bedroom. The cute dining nook for eating is placed in the corner of the kitchen for casual family dinners. "I say no. Every time you can turn a profit, you sell. And you do it again," Joe said. "You never fall in love with anything. You only fall in love with your wife."

Melissa also shared a view of the home’s open foyer and stairway following the move-in. It’s all about simple elegance this time,” she captioned the post. “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” couple finally moved into their new construction home in New Jersey, two years after selling their 9,100 square-foot Montville mansion for $2.5 million. In addition to a wall of windows around the front door, which lead to the home’s two-story foyer, Melissa’s updated exterior boasts an expanded front porch and a modern roof. "At the end of the day, Joe and I spend so much time together, we really do. We keep our feet on the ground, we understand the chaos that comes with being on this show but we just keep it very normal in this house," she shared. "Even with our kids and like with school stuff, we just don't allow the noise to come in."

The Owl House The Owl House Characters

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• Luz Noceda
• Willow Park
• Making peace with the beast
• Emperor Belos
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• Characters

Later, while manning her stand, Eda notices that everyone is disinterested and walking past. Eda shows no interest in the book fair, but takes advantage of the opportunity to pickpocket. She finds a book with a mirror on its cover, and realizes another wrinkle has formed on her face, indicative of the curse's quickening effects on her. She then hears Lilith nearby, who acquires a map to the Bloom of Eternal Youth for Emperor Belos from a merchant. Hoping that the Bloom will cure her curse, Eda acquires a map for herself and prepares to leave the Owl House for a few days. The Collector initially refers to it as "The Bird House", and Eda corrects him before flying around it to see the damage and graffiti caused by the Coven Scouts.

Luz Noceda

Despite being banned from Hexside, Luz still wishes to attend the school, but Eda is against the notion, to the point where she states would rather watch the school burn down than have her attend. Her apprehension for Luz's enrollment stems from her belief that Hexside suppresses anything unique in favor of conformity, and she does not wish for Luz to conform to the coven system. However, while having a conversation with Hooty, Eda realizes that her beef with Hexside is a personal matter, and that Luz deserves a chance to form her own conclusions on the matter.

Willow Park

She refuses to join any of the covens because she views them as crooked for the limitations they place on magic. She is also not a fan of the educational system for similar reasons, bemoaning its reliance on "blind obedience" and "pointless busywork". After the Collector comes to power, she cuts her hair, the new hairstyle resembling how it was when she met King.

Making peace with the beast

Shortly after receiving the gem, Eda eavesdropped on a conversation between her mother and the healer; she overheard that the curse was currently incurable and that her now-enraged mother was willing to take more extreme measures to rid the curse. Shocked by her mother's words, Eda fled her room and tripped over a portal to the human realm, which she promptly used to escape her worried mother.[11] Eda does manage to counter her curse with elixirs, though it is merely a temporary measure. Prior to the start of the series, Eda Clawthorne was close with her sister Lilith. In their youth, Eda looked up to her older sister who displayed magnificent magical powers and worked hard to be better at it.

Eda is a tall, slender middle-aged woman in her mid to late forties.[2] She has ivory skin, pointy ears, maroon lips, and golden eyes. Her untamed hair is long and thick and is layered with two tones of gray (originally orange when she was younger). She has a single fake gold fang, orange claw-like nails, and an oval amber gem on her sternum.

Hexside faculty members

She recruits Luz to help steal King's crown back from Warden Wrath's prison, the Conformatorium, in exchange for helping her get back home. The crown is nothing but a kid's meal toy from a fast food restaurant, but Eda wanted King to be happy. After returning home, Eda holds up her promise and agrees to send Luz home, but Luz chooses to stay as she doesn't fit in back home in the human realm and wanted to learn how to be a witch. Though humans can not perform magic (at the time), she agrees to take Luz as an apprentice.

Emperor Belos

Raine was assigned as a "Wild Witch" while Eda was a "Coven Witch", forcing the two to be on opposing teams. Raine lasted the longest of the Wild Witches, and when they got cornered, Eda betrayed her teammates, leaving the two friends to face off against each other. However, instead of attacking each other, Raine and Eda cooperated to launch an attack on Terra instead. Unexpectedly, Terra was amused by their behavior, but she still didn't give any ribbons to the students. However, she also promised to put in a good word for both Eda and Bump, allowing Eda to remain at Hexside and Bump to keep his job as vice principal.

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However, Luz soon returns to the land of the living with a new human-titan hybrid form and she, Eda, and King take on Belos as the Collector helps Luz's friends in the Archives. Luz, Eda and King combine their powers to counter the corrosion Belos has placed on the Isles. The three make their way to the throne room and, after Eda frees Raine, the four attempt to pry Belos out of the heart. As the others hold him off, an enraged Luz pulls Belos out of the heart and his corrosion ends. In the months since the Day of Unity, King managed to convince the Collector, who turned Lilith into a puppet, to turn her back. Eda would pretend to still be in her owl beast form and sneak out of her cell, which was guarded by the puppets of Coven Heads, to see Raine.

Luz and her friends manage to convince Boscha and the rest of the school to turn on her, resulting in her defeat once again.[17] In the epilogue, Kikimora is seen helping to rebuild the Boiling Isles, possibly as penance for her misdeeds. In "Hollow Mind", Hunter is transported into Belos' mindscape along with Luz, resulting in him seeing his supposed uncle's true colors first-hand. Additionally, he discovers that he possesses some of Flapjack's magic, giving him the ability to teleport.[17] In the epilogue, Hunter is seen working as a palisman carver. Before, she only looked out for herself, and now she was a subparent to Luz and King.

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With Eda's help and insight, they rescue more wild witches from the emperor's guards and guide them outside Bonesborough. By morning, they return to their hide out, tired, exhausted, but proud to have helped a lot of people. Raine asks if she still does any bard spells, and her excuse is the curse messes with her magic, which is why she stopped performing. Like before, her performance causes everything around her to shrivel and die, which interests Raine. In season two, it is shown that Bump openly enjoys Luz's presence at the school but is forced by the Blights to expel her, Gus, and Willow, despite not wanting to. In the epilogue, Bump has retired from being the principal of Hexside, and is last seen watering his plants.

Winners also get an interview with the Boiling Isles News, so Luz and King are entering the competition so King can get on camera to send a message to his father. Eda feigns being happy for him but when King also says he has something important to tell Eda, but she tells him to inform her later, as she is too afraid to hear it. Eda first appears when she sees Luz, who had followed Owlbert through a portal to The Boiling Isles since he took a book she really liked, while selling her human oddities.

The Argument from Design: A Guided Tour of William Paleys Natural Theology 1802 Full Text

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• a. The Argument from Irreducible Biochemical Complexity
• 3 Violations of Naturalness and Fine-Tuning for Life
• Perception of purpose in biology
• The Ontological Argument for God
• An Introduction to Design Arguments
• David Hume
• 4 Independently Motivating and Testing the Multiverse Hypothesis?

[T]he problem for the fine-tuning argument is that we lack both of the pieces that are needed to justify an inference of design. First, the very point of the argument is to establish the fact that there exists an intelligent agency that has the right causal abilities and motivations to bring the existence of a universe capable of sustaining life. Second, and more obviously, we do not have any past experience with the genesis of worlds and are hence not in a position to know whether the existence of fine-tuned universes are usually explained by the deliberate agency of some intelligent agency.

a. The Argument from Irreducible Biochemical Complexity

However, DeBroglie, Bohm and others (even for a timeEinstein) tried to reinstate determinism by moving it back to an evendeeper fundamental level via hidden variable theories. Although thehidden variable attempt is generally thought not to be successful, itsfailure is not a failure of principle. The position that there are causal gaps in nature is notinherently irrational—and would seem to be a legitimateempirical question.

3 Violations of Naturalness and Fine-Tuning for Life

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There was nothing logically suspect here.Indeed, simplicity and uniformity considerations—which haveconsiderable well-earned scientific clout—push in the directionof such generalizations. To understand Schlesinger's argument, consider your reaction to two different events. If John wins a 1-in-1,000,000,000 lottery game, you would not immediately be tempted to think that John (or someone acting on his behalf) cheated. If, however, John won three consecutive 1-in-1,000 lotteries, you would immediately be tempted to think that John (or someone acting on his behalf) cheated. Schlesinger believes that the intuitive reaction to these two scenarios is epistemically justified.

Perception of purpose in biology

As just outlined, it is controversial whether it is rational to inferthe existence of multiple universes from our universe’sfine-tuning for life. However, if we had strong independentevidence for other universes with life-hostile conditions, attempts toaccount for why our own universe is life-friendly would most likelyseem futile. Thus independent evidence for some multiverse scenariocould have a strong impact on what we regard as a rational response tofine-tuning for life. Proponents of the argument from fine-tuning forthe multiverse could moreover welcome such evidence as potentiallyhelping to motivate a non-negligible prior \(P(M)\) for themultiverse. A second type of scenario according to which future developments inphysics may eliminate at least some fine-tuning for life would be adynamical account of the generation of life-friendlyconditions, in analogy to the Darwinian “dynamical”evolutionary account of biological fine-tuning for survival andreproduction.

The Ontological Argument for God

It was given a fuller and quite nice earlystatement by Hume’s Cleanthes (1779 [1998], 15). The argument from poor design, also known as the dysteleological argument, is an argument against the assumption of the existence of a creator God, based on the reasoning that any omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity or deities would not create organisms with the perceived suboptimal designs that occur in nature. Insofar as the legitimate application of design inferences presupposes that we have antecedent reason to believe the right kind of intelligent being exists, they can enable us to distinguish what such beings do from what merely happens. If we already know, for example, that there exist beings capable of rigging a lottery, then design inferences can enable us to distinguish lottery results that merely happen from lottery results that are deliberately brought about by such agents.

1 Analogical Design Arguments: Schema 1

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The habitability of the earth for humans, is in many ways the result of chance occurrences, such as the elimination of dinosaurs rather than the efforts of an intelligent designer. In this essay, we’ll argue that recent discoveries in modern physics provide an argument that strongly suggests that an intelligent designer, God, is behind the universe and its laws. While this particular argument is based upon discoveries that are only a few decades old, the basic form of the argument follows in the footsteps of the age-old design argument.

The heart, the lungs, the stomach, the liver, the kidneys, are much alike in all. The same fluid (for no distinction of blood has been observed) circulates through their vessels, and nearly in the same order. The same cause, therefore, whatever that cause was, has been concerned in the origin, has governed the production of these different animal forms. The preceding arguments occupy only the first six of the 27 chapters in Natural Theology.

David Hume

Purported explanations can be informally divided into two broadcategories—those involving agents, agency, intention, and thelike; and those involving mechanism, physical causality, naturalprocesses, and the like. The distinction is not clean (functioningartifacts typically involve both), but is useful enough in a rough andready way, and in what follows agent explanations and mechanicalexplanations respectively will be used as convenient handles. Nothingpernicious is built into either the broad distinction or the specifiedterminology. Evidential ambiguity would virtually disappear if it became clear thatthere is no plausible means of producing some R independentof deliberate intent. Part of the persuasiveness of (6) historicallycame from absence of any known plausible non-intentional alternativecausal account of the traditional Rs.

4 Independently Motivating and Testing the Multiverse Hypothesis?

The proper functioning oftheir visual apparatus, in turn, depends sensitively on physiologicaldetails of their eyes and brain. The term “fine-tuning” is used to characterizesensitive dependences of facts or properties on the values of certainparameters. One of the primary arguments against the existence of God is found in the Mīmāmsā tradition. The cosmological and teleological evidence as examined above was deemed inconclusive. The focus of this tradition and its several subtraditions was on living properly.

Since the human body is a highly complex system of parts which cooperate in such a way as to produce desirable ends (prolonged life, consciousness, vision, etc.), it resembles sophisticated man-made machines, which are also systems of functionally interrelated parts, which work together to produce desirable ends. The problem of evil poses a philosophical challenge to the traditional arguments (in particular the design argument) because it implies that the design of the cosmos and the designer of the cosmos are flawed. How can we assert the existence of a caring and benevolent God when there exists so much evil in the world? The glib answer to this question is to say that human moral agents, not God, are the cause of evil.

According to many advocates of inflationary cosmology, the process ofinflation results in causally isolated space-time regions, so-called“island universes”. This process is in general“eternal” in that the formation of island universes neverends. As a result, it leads to the production of a vast (and,according to most models, infinite) “multiverse” of islanduniverses (Guth 2000). As aconsequence of this fact, the Bayesian version of the argument fromfine-tuning for a designer as outlined in Section 3.1 must adopt some solution to Bayesianism’s notorious problemof old evidence (Glymour 1980) because \(R\)—that theconstants are right for life—is inevitably old evidencefor us. We will not pursue that dispute here except to note that even if thecase is made that ID could not count as proper science, which is controversial,[12] that would not in itself demonstrate a defect in design arguments assuch.

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• Choosing Your Common House Gecko
• Gecko Size and Growth
• UV Lighting
• Info by Species
• Hemidactylus frenatusChichak, Common House Gecko

They were likely brought into the United States as pets before humans let them go into the wild. Alternatively, they could have escaped and continued to survive in the hot and humid environment. Unlike tropical gecko species, the Mediterranean gecko and Asian common gecko are capable of living without a UVB lamp. All geckos require a heat lamp capable of maintaining a basking temperature of around 90°F at the main basking spot. They should also be given adequate shade that sits around 75-85°F during the day.

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Gecko management should focus on excluding the lizards from the structure. Check and replace weather stripping around doors and windows where needed. Use sealant to close cracks and crevices around soffits and plumbing or electrical penetrations. Geckos commonly use poorly sealed gaps around the home exterior as hiding places during the day.

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This means that where the environmental temperature is 26–35 degrees, the common house gecko can modify body temperature through behavioural adaptations. In Texas there are two species of introduced house geckos, the Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus, and the common house gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus. Both house gecko species have bulging, lidless eyes with vertical pupils and sticky toe pads. The Tropical House Gecko (scientific name Hemidactylus frenatus), is a native of southeastern Asia and the northern parts of Africa. Known as the Pacific house gecko, it is the most recently discovered member of a quartet of small, prolific and aggressive little lizards that become active at twilight.

UV Lighting

A minimum recommended size is 12″L x 12″W x 18″H (30 x 30 x 45 cm). If possible, opt for an enclosure that is front-opening and opaque on all sides except the front, which will benefit the gecko’s mental health and provide easy access. This enclosure should be front-opening and very well secured against escape, as house geckos are escape artists.

As an invasive species

But if you catch a house gecko in North America to keep as a pet, you won't be doing harm to the species overall. The common house gecko has adapted to human dwellings in tropical regions where both humidity and insects are ubiquitous in the environment. When these animals become pets In more temperate latitudes, however, they need extra care from their owners to provide for their dietary and environmental needs. A 20-gallon tall terrarium is sufficient for a pair of common house geckos but bigger is better when it comes to their housing. Keep in mind that house geckos always want vertical space for climbing so use a tall tank rather than a long one. House geckos need climbable furnishings in their tall enclosures so provide branches, driftwood, and silk or live plants.

The Common House Gecko: A Comprehensive Care Guide

Geckos require a moderately high humidity environment, with the ideal level being about 60-75% humidity. This can be monitored with the use of a digital probe which should be as central in the tank as possible for an accurate reading. If the reading drops too low, you can raise the humidity using a fine mist spray bottle. It’s best to use halogen heat bulbs to heat the enclosure instead of ceramic heat emitters (CHEs), which are not as effective. You should also avoid heated rocks as they can cause severe injury if the surface becomes too hot. This includes temperature control, UV control, humidity control, and absolute essentials that need to be in every gecko enclosure.

Mist their cage every day to keep the humidity high and provide water droplets for drinking. In the wild this reptile hunts by slowly creeping up to their prey before pouncing and jabbing their head forward to catch the insect. They mostly hunt around porch lights or man-made light structures. Geckos are mostly active spring through fall and frequent lighted areas- windows, porch lights, etc.  They may enter structures through cracks and crevices or around doorways.

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You might spot them near streams or rivers, but they have been known to live far from water as well. To heat their enclosure use a heating pad or an incandescent bulb. The temperature inside the tank should be 75° – 90°F in the morning and 65° – 75°F at night.

The “house” part of their name refers to the fact they often live in human homes and adapt well to man-made habitats. With good care, they may have a lifespan of 9 years or longer. Physically taking any gecko you find in your house is probably the most humane way of getting rid of them.

They naturally shed their skin, much like snakes, which is a process they will undergo on their own without any real need for assistance. A healthy Common House Gecko typically displays vibrant skin, clear eyes, and an active demeanor. Regular, consistent eating patterns and a well-maintained body weight are also indicative of good health. Observing your gecko’s daily habits and behaviors can provide valuable insights into their well-being, allowing you to make necessary adjustments to their care routine as needed. Welcome to the captivating realm of the Common House Gecko!

Their fascinating climbing abilities, paired with their active night-time behaviors, make them a joy to observe and interact with. Now you know what time of day to look, but what about the time of the year? In southern parts of the US, where introduced geckos are most common, geckos can be found throughout the year. They are certainly most common in the warmer months, but they can be found year round if nighttime lows do not drop too much. Decorate the enclosure with branches and climbing structures to promote exercise and offer hiding spots. Remember to monitor the gecko’s size throughout their life to ensure their habitat meets their needs.

These geckos have a color range from tan to pink, adorned with dark bands and blotches down their body and tail, which are interrupted by pale-colored bumps. Overall, their unique appearance and manageable size make them an interesting choice of pet for reptile enthusiasts. The best UVB bulb for a house gecko housed in a 12” x 12” x 18” terrarium is the 26w Zoo Med Reptisun 5.0 Compact Coil bulb. However, you will need a larger UVB bulb for a larger enclosure.

Even though setting up the habitat is one of the easiest parts of Mediterranean house gecko care, you should still keep their ideal conditions in mind. The best thing you can do is create a natural setup that mimics a lush environment. It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced herpetology buff or a new reptile owner.

The Argument from Design for the Existence of God PLATO Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization

Table Of Content

• Book summary page views
• Alternative Explanation
• Book contents
• Contradictory premises lead to an infinite regress[change change source]
• Physical World as Manifestation of Divine Consciousness
• Hindu Arguments Against the Existence of God

As a logical matter, the mere fact that some existing thing has a feature, irreducibly complex or otherwise, that would be valuable to an intelligent being with certain properties, by itself, does not say anything about the probability that such a being exists. Since the world, on this analysis, is closely analogous to the most intricate artifacts produced by human beings, we can infer “by all the rules of analogy” the existence of an intelligent designer who created the world. We never argued that the universe is specifically fine-tuned for intelligent life.

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We said that the constants are fine-tuned for atoms, molecules, planets, life, stars, galaxies, etc. There is nothing about the way we formulated that argument that brings in the problem of evil. Many scientists loathe to accept the existence of an intelligent cause; it sounds too similar to the God they automatically reject as impossible. Their most prominent alternative is the multiverse, which posits the existence of an infinite number of unobservable parallel universes, each with different values for the constants.

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Alternative Explanation

Suppose that anelderly uncle dies in suspicious circumstances, and a number of therelatives believe that the correct explanation is the direct agency ofa niece who is primary heir, via deliberately and directlyadministering poison. However, forensic investigation establishes thatthe cause of death was a mix-up among medications the uncle wastaking—an unfortunate confusion. The suspicious relatives,however, without missing an explanatory beat shift the niece’sagency back one level, proposing that the mix-up itself wasorchestrated by the niece—switching contents of prescriptionbottles, no doubt. What had earlier appeared to bepurpose (requiring intent) was now apparently revealed asmere unintended but successful and preserved function. However, theologian Alister McGrath has pointed out that the fine-tuning of carbon is even responsible for nature's ability to tune itself to any degree. If God did not exist, the applicability of mathematics would be just a happy coincidence.2.

Book contents

From a much more positive point of view, his wonder at the complexity of the natural world, expressed with sincerity and style, is something to which all evolutionary biologists can relate. It is to be hoped that, in time, it will be for this reason alone that Paley’s classic treatise retains its significance. Unlike modern proponents of “intelligent design,” Paley is totally forthright in his view on the identity of the designer. As he concludes at the close of Chapter 23, “The marks of design are too strong to be gotten over. From this starting position, Paley proceeds in Chapters 24 through 26 to rally evidence from nature for the omnipotence, omniscience, and benevolence of the Designer. He must, therefore, contend with examples not only confirmatory (e.g., the good fit of organisms to their needs, the capacity for pleasure) but also seemingly contradictory (e.g., death, disease, predation, pain) to such a theological stance.

The design argument is one of three main arguments for the existence of God; the others are the ontological argument and the cosmological argument. Unlike the ontological argument, the design argument and the cosmological argument are a posteriori. And whereas the cosmological argument can focus on any present event to get the ball rolling (arguing that it must trace back to a first cause, namely God), design theorists are usually more selective.

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Physical World as Manifestation of Divine Consciousness

While this is a popular stance, it is a promissory note rather than anexplanation. Assuming that fine-tuning does require an explanation, there areseveral approaches one might take (Koperski 2015, section 2.4). Three approaches have been taken to undermine the demand forexplanation presented by fine-tuning. However, (a) – (d) are incomplete in a way directly relevant tothe present discussion.

Hindu Arguments Against the Existence of God

"Who ever said that human life should be infinite?" Dunno."As for evolution, give me an example of one species that evolved from other species." Species evolve until they have new members that can longer interbreed with the earlier menbers - you then have a new species. Examples are the various species of dinosaur and the present day birds that evolved from dinosaurs. "BTW, why there are one-cell living organisms? Why they don't evolve" - they have done, but that does not mean the earlier version no longer exists.

Western Theistic Responses to the Problem of Evil

The non-creationist approach starts most clearly with Aristotle, although many thinkers, such as the Neoplatonists, believed it was already intended by Plato. This approach is not creationist in a simple sense, because while it agrees that a cosmic intelligence is responsible for the natural order, it rejects the proposal that this requires a "creator" to physically make and maintain this order. The Neoplatonists did not find the teleological argument convincing, and in this they were followed by medieval philosophers such as Al-Farabi and Avicenna. Later, Averroes and Thomas Aquinas considered the argument acceptable, but not necessarily the best argument. Cicero (c. 106–c. 43 B.C.) also made one of the earliest known teleological arguments. In de Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) Cicero stated, "The divine power is to be found in a principle of reason that pervades the whole of nature".

The historical arguments of interest are precisely the potentiallyproblematic ones—inferences beginning with some empiricalfeatures of nature and concluding with the existence of a designer. Astandard but separable second step—the natural theologystep—involves identifying the designer as God, often viaparticular properties and powers required by the designing inquestion. Although the argument wielded its greatest intellectualinfluence during the 18th and early 19th centuries, it goes back atleast to the Greeks and in extremely clipped form comprises one ofAquinas’s Five Ways.

As a general scientific principle, the Prime Principle of Confirmation can be applied in a wide variety of circumstances and is not limited to circumstances in which we have other reasons to believe the relevant conclusion is true. If the observation of a fine-tuned universe is more probable under the Theistic Hypothesis than under the Atheistic Single-Universe Hypothesis, then this fact is a reason for preferring the Design Hypothesis to Atheistic Single-Universe Hypothesis. First, while it might be clear that carbon-based life would not be possible if the universe were slightly different with respect to these two-dozen fine-tuned properties, it is not clear that no form of life would be possible. Second, some physicists speculate that this physical universe is but one material universe in a “multiverse” in which all possible material universes are ultimately realized. If this highly speculative hypothesis is correct, then there is nothing particularly suspicious about the fact that there is a fine-tuned universe, since the existence of such a universe is inevitable (that is, has probability 1) if all every material universe is eventually realized in the multiverse. Since some universe, so to speak, had to win, the fact that ours won does not demand any special explanation.

Some advocates seedesign arguments as inferences to the best explanation, taking designexplanations—whatever their weaknesses—as primafacie superior to chance, necessity, chance-driven evolution, orwhatever. The intuition they were attempting to capture involvedproperties that constituted some degree of evidence for design, notjust because such properties happened to be often or even onlyproduced by designing agents. When we see a text version of the Gettysburg Address, thattext says mind to us in a way totally unrelated to anyinduction or analogy from past encounters withwritten texts. It was that type of testimony to mind, to design, thatsome historical advocates of design arguments believed that they foundin some Rs observed in nature—a testimony having nodependency on induction or analogy. Beauty, purpose and in generalvalue especially when conjoined with delicate complexity werepopular underlying intuitive marks. Intricate, dynamic, stable,functioning order of the sort we encounter in nature was frequentlyplaced in this category.

From this sole argument I cannot conclude anything further than that it is probable that an intelligent and superior being has skillfully prepared and fashioned the matter. I cannot conclude from that alone that this being has made matter out of nothing and that he is infinite in every sense. Contemporary defenders of the teleological argument are mainly Christians,[12] for example Richard Swinburne and John Lennox.

As explained in the introduction to philosophy chapter and earlier in this chapter, karma may be thought of as the causal law that links causes to effects. Assuming the doctrine of interdependence, karma asserts that if we act in such a way to cause harm to others, we increase the amount of negativity in nature. As the self moves through rebirth (samsara), the karmic debt incurred is retained. Teleological arguments examine the inherent design within reality and attempt to infer the existence of an entity responsible for the design observed. Teleological arguments consider the level of design found in living organisms, the order displayed on a cosmological scale, and even how the presence of order in general is significant. The main difficulty with this suggestion is that all life requires ameans for overcoming the second law of thermodynamics.

Eda Clawthorne The Owl House The Ultimate Disney Character Guide

Table Of Content

• Coven
• Preparing for the Day of Unity
• Character-Specific Pages
• Coping without magic
• Friends / Allies
• Emperor Belos

The contestants will be flying down the right arm to the Cubital Valley, using speed, cunning and magic to race to the checkpoint and back to the finish line. The first one to reach the finish will be declared the winner, and get their name etched on the Cup of Ephemeral Glory and an on-camera interview seen by everyone watching across the Isles. However, she is still avoiding King, as she is still too afraid to hear what wants to tell her. But, when they reach the spot, they realize too late they have fallen into a trap. Heads Witches Eberwolf and Derius capture Raine's followers and send them to the Conformatorium.

Coven

As soon as he finishes, Bowtie becomes little more than a mindless pet, and Eda is forced to wear the bee costume and succumb to the same fate as Bowtie and the pets of the café. Eda arrives just in time to witness Luz and King cross the finish line, but even though Luz does pass and beat Ukla of Glandus, it is quickly revealed they came in fifth place, much to Eda's surprise. Luz explains that during the race, they were on the verge of winning, as they passed all the other witches and made it to first place. Unfortunately, just as they were close to winning, King's motion sickness got the better of him, and he threw up again, causing them to crash. Due to their race ranking, Luz and King won't be getting the on-camera interview.

Preparing for the Day of Unity

Raine reminds Eda of the time they ditched a performance to hang out with her, during which Eda told them that they can't run away from their fears forever, and that they could "give them a whap in the face". Raine then explains that these words inspired them after they became a teacher for the Bard Coven, where they discovered how Belos recruited people through force. They then decided to rise up through the ranks so they could dismantle the system from the inside, and so they could find like-minded people to form the BATs. The group then run off when they hear someone coming, during which Raine asks Eda to help them if she wants to. When forced to attend IFWOT, facing expulsion if she failed to come back with a ribbon, she met Bard Student named Raine Whispers, who helped her with the challenges. The exam proctor, Terra Snapdragon, was unimpressed with the challenges of IFWOT and added one final challenge, a game of Covens and Wilds.

Character-Specific Pages

Eda always turns them down and in return, her ex's will either try to insist or kill her. But due to her rebellious nature, she is pretty much an outcast/criminal who has a great number of enemies - some of which who are business rivals or ex-boyfriends. She is the sort of teacher that would not only throw someone into the deep water but also set the entire lake on fire. Natalie Palamides and Abigail Zoe Lewis voice a teenage and young version of Eda, respectively.

Eda sees that the Owl Beast feels just as trapped as her and forms a truce between her and the beast. Once Eda accepts the curse as a part of her and cooperates with the beast, she can transform into Harpy Eda, a hybrid form that combines the Owl Beast's power with Eda's wit. In order to transform, she makes a deal with the Owl Beast which, on Eda's end, involves eating voles for the Owl Beast. In "Watching and Dreaming", when Eda is trapped in the Conformatorium, she is concerned about King and asks Lilith and Gwendolyn to help her find him. When Luz frees her and King from their nightmares, she kisses him and Luz while sharing a hug.

Friends / Allies

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Kikimora, revealing her other eye, proceeds to ensnare Raine using their coven mark, then puts them in a deep slumber. She attended at Hexside Academy where among other things, she played in grudgby matches and was a rather rebellious student in general who played various pranks on her teachers and the school itself, much to Principal Bump's (and his predecessor Principal Faust's) exasperation. The series also won an award for Children's & Youth Programming at the 2021 Peabody Awards. Beneath her carefree exterior, Eda harbors a sense of responsibility for Luz and a desire to protect her from the dangers of the Boiling Isles. She is a character who evolves throughout the series, revealing vulnerability, wisdom, and a deep connection to her past. Eda Clawthorne is a captivating and multi-dimensional character whose journey in “The Owl House” is as enchanting as the magical world she inhabits.

Eda jokes that, with this side effect, the song is more like Eda's Requiem now, and she departs. Declaring that covens were not "her style", Eda reminded her sister to not forget her when she becomes famous. However, much to her and Lilith's horror, Eda's curse manifested shortly after she started walking away, and she transformed into the Owl Beast.

Eda is renowned for her magical prowess, particularly her ability to use powerful spells without the need for a staff, a rare and coveted skill. However, her magic comes with a price—she suffers from a curse known as “the Owl Beast,” which transforms her into a monstrous, owl-like creature at unpredictable times. Eda's relationship with her mother was originally strained, as she ran away from home and from her when she overheard Gwendolyn suggesting harsher treatments to remove her curse. Later, Gwendolyn would visit her annually with what she considers a permanent cure that never works, which Eda finds annoying since she believes she is just fine with her elixirs. After she and Lilith both transform into owl beasts, and Gwendolyn learns that she had been scammed, Gwendolyn realizes she made Eda feel ashamed of her curse and tells her that she loves her regardless of it, allowing Eda to regain control of her cursed form. On the day of the Gland Prix, King once again tries to tell Eda something, but she tells him to inform her after the race ends.

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Emperor Belos

She decides to distract herself by joining the Bards Against the Throne, led by her old friend Raine Whispers. Eda almost sacrifices herself along with Raine while trying to fight Darius and Eberwolf. However, when Raine notices a picture of Eda with Luz and King, they convince Eda that despite what it may look like, Luz and King still need her.

Luz manages to find and console King, and when the duo return to Eda, King forgives the witch that adopted him years ago, but states that she has to be honest with him from now on. King hopes to use the slide as his throne, but gets pushed down it by a child he calls "the Usurper". He demands Eda to blow up said child, but the Owl Lady has no intention of using Owlbert to bring harm to a child. Luz then asks how Eda got Owlbert, and her mentor explains that the palisman was carved from a branch of an ancient tree.

She is also the mentor of Luz Noceda, the lover of Raine Whispers, and the roommate and later adoptive mother of King. Due to being on opposing sides of Belos' laws, Kikimora has been an occasional enemy for Eda, with both sharing a mutual loathing of each other. Like with all members of the Emperor's Coven, Eda possesses virtually no respect for Kikimora due to her loyalty to Belos and considers her to be among the worst of the emperor's followers due to her apathetic and power-hungry nature. In turn, Kikimora looks down on Eda in contempt for her status as a wild witch, viewing her as a lowly criminal and cretin. After Eda was captured and sentenced to petrification by Belos, Kikimora served as her executioner, having personally activated the spell that nearly turned her to stone permanently, had it not been for Luz's timely arrival. Eda holds a grudge towards Kikimora for this, which only grew as she came to occasionally cause trouble for both her and Luz, first at Latissa and later at Eclipse Lake.

Luz talks about her first time being in the isles, and shows the Collector some other pictures of her adventures before he shows interest in the picture of the Grudgby match, to which the four leave the house to go to Hexside's stadium. After Belos' defeat, Eda, King, Luz, and Raine go back to the Owl House to rest. The Collector brings Lilith, Amity, and Camila to the house to reunite with Eda and Luz, respectfully. During the 4-year time skip, the Owl House was cleaned up and Raine moved in.[1] Eda, King, Lilith, Camila, and others held a belated quinceañera for Luz because she has spent three years helping rebuild the Isles.