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Backwards is not our path!
April 19, 2022 at 13:59
Yep we are capable of all of that but we are not responsible for the vast majority of the 99% of all species that have gone extinct. As I have said be...
April 19, 2022 at 13:56
99% of all species that have ever existed on the Earth are extinct. This is an estimate but is based on fossil evidence etc. http://www.askabiologist....
April 19, 2022 at 13:35
Try the tune below. Professor Brian Cox was the keyboard player! https://youtu.be/V6QhAZckY8w
April 19, 2022 at 12:57
Nah! Rather than praying to non-existent dead donkey gods, I will just continue to try to oust the capitalist profit hoarders and insist that prices a...
April 19, 2022 at 12:02
Typical non-existent god, never around when you need one.
April 19, 2022 at 11:55
Hey! don't be so disrespectful towards a god going to the toilet! Nope, my main primal fear is that the price of certain single malt whisky might get ...
April 19, 2022 at 11:41
I bet the whole computer including the chip, would turn bright orange with a yellow top and its first communication would be "Seriously folks, this is...
April 19, 2022 at 11:31
You offer science-based commentary then you raise the incompatible flag above at the end. In my opinion you further demote your gods. It seems to me t...
April 19, 2022 at 11:16
I think you are talking about life, not gods. I think you just use the god label because you like a little woo woo in your life and it has the extra b...
April 19, 2022 at 10:51
Yes, I did but only to expose them as 'unlikey sources,' of our Universe. The difference was explained by @"apokrisis" as well as me. The god posit ge...
April 19, 2022 at 10:43
:lol: Careful, we don't want to entice others and incite a 'who can come up with the best file extension or file name with extension for a future down...
April 19, 2022 at 10:35
This is just the same as what Penrose is claiming. If you agree that the Universe oscillates between linear time frames of existence, then you agree w...
April 19, 2022 at 10:30
The evidence for the evolution of species is strong enough to be fact in my opinion and I think that is a majority opinion, in the absence of equally ...
April 19, 2022 at 10:25
It depends what level of explanation you want but I am sure a neuroscientist could satisfy you, if you really need to know whats going on in your brai...
April 19, 2022 at 09:37
What you typed is very human. No god involved, just you and the woman you love. If you abandoned god now would your 'squeeze' have less meaning to you...
April 18, 2022 at 23:20
Well as soon as someone or something performs an act which is not possible under the known laws of physics. We can call in the physicists to confirm t...
April 18, 2022 at 23:08
I don't think Penrose would use the term 'believe,' in this context. He thinks inflation is an incorrect part of the origin theory. But it must have h...
April 18, 2022 at 22:59
So am I yet I don't accept god as the answer. How come I can do that if god is so essential/fundamental to any meaning or reason in life as you sugges...
April 18, 2022 at 22:52
Sounds like you are suggesting zillions of intelligent sparks. I think you are a panpsychist not a theist.
April 18, 2022 at 22:48
God is often described as omnipotent. By that definition it can manifest physically anytime it wills it. If it can't do that then it is not omnipotent...
April 18, 2022 at 22:45
I don't think Penrose is an advocate of 'inflation,' have a look at: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sir-roger-penrose-cosmic-inflation-is-fant...
April 18, 2022 at 22:10
I have answered you in the thread 'Question regarding panpsychism,' where you responded to me with a similar comment.
April 18, 2022 at 22:03
Sounds like you are on a quest for a personal meaning or reason for your own existence and hoping that the answer you find will be a 'universal truth....
April 18, 2022 at 22:01
:lol: In fact so far regressed that HE (I prefer it) seems to me like a tiny mindless spark with no intent. I am happy to label this first cause, this...
April 18, 2022 at 21:43
Yep, infinite regress, first cause required is the old chestnut but you offer a perfectly acceptable answer imo later on with: I don't feel a burden t...
April 18, 2022 at 21:30
I don't think Penrose agrees with you here. He suggests that there can be an energy concentration that causes a new big bang. He suggests that entropy...
April 18, 2022 at 21:21
:lol: But I must admit that in my head I kept seeing little square tiles and tesselation type patterns. But I could feel JP's discomfort when RP kept ...
April 18, 2022 at 21:05
Yes, I have, and I intend to keep doing so until it's proven demonstrably incorrect. I don't know what your personal god does for you or why you need ...
April 18, 2022 at 17:28
Interpretation is YOUR choice of label that does not make it appropriate for what I typed. It's in the judgment of others to decide if they agree with...
April 18, 2022 at 16:43
That's true you don't and I can't/won't provide their names, contact details and qualifications here. I know how computers work and no one yet knows f...
April 18, 2022 at 14:10
Well I think that the Darwinian facts related to human evolution and jungle rules such as 'survival of the fittest,' and the reality we see every time...
April 18, 2022 at 10:48
If we do ever achieve consciousness downloads or a human brain contained in a fully cybernetic body or a brain transplanted into a cloned body etc I w...
April 18, 2022 at 09:54
But many individuals in the world of Artificial Intelligence, genetic engineering, cybernetics, electronic/quantum/biological computing, physics/chemi...
April 18, 2022 at 09:32
That's a big claim friend. I would say I know a small slice of the past 2500 years of data/information garnished from the application of the scientifi...
April 18, 2022 at 09:12
We already know how to do that in my opinion, it involves getting global politics correct. Then we will understand why the god posit was wrong.
April 17, 2022 at 19:27
.hahastillhere
April 17, 2022 at 10:37
I hope so, we can then throw it in jail forever for abandoning its responsibilities for so long. I don't know, need more time. If you give your god mo...
April 17, 2022 at 10:14
In: Atheism  — view comment
That is probably because they don't exist. The only eternal here is your eternal 'yet.'
April 17, 2022 at 10:03
We don't need one imo. Yes it can, in time.
April 17, 2022 at 09:55
In: Atheism  — view comment
Yes.
April 16, 2022 at 15:10
In: Atheism  — view comment
Atheism is often described as the position that there is insufficient evidence for justifying belief in gods. I am also 99.9% convinced that no gods e...
April 16, 2022 at 15:07
A pleasure to do so..... I think many theists take this position. They reject the infinite regression or 'first cause' problem by claiming that god is...
April 16, 2022 at 14:46
Yep, I think that's the suggested solution but you still have the concern of male sexual predators/ drunk men/men or boys who dare each other to.........
April 16, 2022 at 13:54
Emulation is a more exact replication compared to simulation. A clone would be an emulated replicant not a simulation. I am not convinced that electro...
April 16, 2022 at 09:05
I would say that this has been getting exposure since the divine right of kings was suggested and even long before that. The ancient elite tried to pe...
April 15, 2022 at 12:15
I find this quite interesting. If I think of my own group of friends, male/female/married/single/various sexual preferences etc. The aspects of their ...
April 15, 2022 at 11:55
Oh, I don't know about that, I think the number of male sexual predators are evenly spread globally but I don't have any stats to back up what I am cl...
April 15, 2022 at 11:42
I have no issue with it either but many many people do have an issue with shared gender public toilets. Especially women who fear male sexual preditor...
April 15, 2022 at 10:58
Fair enough but I assumed that you used the Jonathan Haidt paraphrase below because you agreed with it. You may still 'strongly disagree,' with them o...
April 15, 2022 at 08:36