Michael Zwingli

From this, one must consider that, while the fact of our human existence might not be a miracle, it is yet miraculous.

very good!

only if you have a few billion years to run the trial...

well, first the dust formed inorganic compuonds, which in turn, and in the right environment, eventually formed organic compounds, out of which eventu...

any type of "dust", or particulate matter of any other name, has mass by the fact of it being matter... Paricles of dust exert gravitational forces up...

gravity is a property of the matter itself, a function of the mass thereof, and more effective in the environment of space.

not so. We are considering the formation of large planetary and other space bodies from, essentially, space dust, no? The matter is simply changing fo...

the force of gravity over a long time in the environment of space, which is of course, a function of the matter itself.

the answer seems to be simple probability. With localized random intensifications of energy in pre-universal space having occurred throughout "time", ...

most of that dust has coalesced to form planets and other objects in the universe...including you and me.

for the record, I am with you on this. I think that there is no realm of existence apart from the physical universe, beyond the parameters of which th...

you seem to equate thought with consciousness. If one were to open the cranium of a human, and destroy all those, and only those portions of the brain...

What God...which God? Neither the Judeo-Christian nor the Muslim God could be energy. A hypothetical God? Perhaps, but that would involve adding a new...

Yes, precisely. As Doug Hofstadter noted: " 'I' am a strange loop".

Hi, everybody. I just now created this account, and so this is my first post ever on the philosophy forum. I am not a professional/academic philosophe...