TheMadFool

Yes you're right you know. To survive we need change but notice to face death you need the notion of eternity or changelessness. Thanks a lot

I'll take your word for it. :smile:

You're right, especially the part where you said that Heraclitus and Parmenides possessed "different" kinds of knowledge. Heraclitus (535 - 475 BC) pr...

Your answer resonates with my feelings on the matter The "bucket of slop" sentence is terrific and your warning "they may not like us" must be taken s...

Thanks. I'm going to approach this issue with a negative attitude. Change is "obvious". Dare I say even a child knows about change. A child cries when...

I'm just offering a different opinion. That's all. I actually think you're correct. When you understand something then you can probably see through th...

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For the moment I'm voting in favor of your intuition.

I must say that the so-called "intellectual" is the real moron as absurd as that sounds. Not trying to contradict you. Just a feeling I have. :smile:

What are lies but the pleasure of fools and the misery of good men.

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They're the sharpest of the lot. If only they'd chosen science what wonders we may have achieved!

How beautiful. I have great difficulty comprehending and always struggling to grasp that meaning or concept or theory. As a counterpoint to Einstein, ...

You're right but have inadvertently attributed it to neurosis. I know religion is mostly about some variation on the eternal life theme but Buddhism s...

How about an Albert Einsteinian answer. I'm not a scientist or mathematician, unqualified basically, but I've heard people talk of flatland. A 2 dimen...

Thanks for your inputs. I think all basic blueprints of life came into existence at one single point in time (is it 3 billion years ago?). One bluepri...

As I understand it borders are physical. It would simply exist whether we agree or not.

These are "evolved" creatures by which I mean old wine in a new bottle. Where are the brand new, so to speak, organisms that, forgive my limited vocab...

You're absolutely right you know. I wasn't completely correct on this. My bad. I thought, the mad fool that I am, that the faithful are a bunch of idi...

The OP made things disappear simply on the basis of disagreeing. This isn't possible I believe. If we disagreed on matters of taste, which I presume i...

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Yeah I guess( too) bacteria aren't eager biologists trying to make a name for themselves. Isn't it odd that the conditions now are unfavorable to gene...

Very efficient use of words. You must be a mathematician. I guess this pattern which I'll inform you about is omniprevalent. I started a thread on why...

That's what I thought but could there be any other explanation?

An inability to determine the truth of a proposition x doesn't imply that x doesn't have a truth value. We just don't know the truth value. The border...

Yes. Are the conditions now unfavorable?

Are you saying they're all barking up the wrong tree? How so?

Ok. Thanks.

Ok. Thanks.

Wikipedia or me?

What's so difficult to understand here?

Oops. I meant abiogenesis

Don't tell me that you wouldn't be amazed if a programmer created AI with just 3 lines of code. Horrible only to the extent required by symmetry which...

Please read my replies above.

Yes, new species in the biogenesis sense and not evolutionary sense.

I just think that the absence of any new life-forms coming into existence needs explaining.

Thanks for the clarification. My actual question is why are there no new life-forms coming into existence, especially since the conditions now would b...

A lot of interesting points and comments. Something just popped into my. If you analyze the universe from a mathematical or a scientific perspective t...

Yes it's concise and I think that makes it just too nebulous to do anything with it.

You mean to say anyone can be a prophet? If we remove miracles from the metric what's the difference between a prophet and a very imaginative, resourc...

I don't know. Should we stop the argument at "design" so that we don't have to quarrel about the "intelligent"? Perhaps we misread the intent of the d...

That's very vague. How do you build your world around "the source of being"?

Note that entropy is current theory and although it fits well we can always look back at Newtonian physics to remind ourselves that nothing in science...

Great Advice. I was simply using the "standard" definition of God which, as you have shown, is subject to "ridicule" if paradoxes and contradictions c...

Correct. What wonders may arise...

What do you mean?

Good point but I was focusing more on 3, what I consider essential, attributes of God viz. omniscience, omnipotence and omnibenevolence (SPB). Also I ...

So stupid that you didn't see it :rofl: Thanks. I was just wondering about the discrepancy between an obvious physical attribute (beauty) and a charac...

I was hoping to present an argument for panpsychism

Have you never been hurt and have you never hurt anyone? "No" is an impossible answer.