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And where did these laws of nature come from? Just chance that they happen to be so as to allow life to emerge in the world? I think this is equally i...

The argument from poor design ignores the fact that evolution is an ongoing process whose sole aim is to enable organisms to adapt to their environmen...

Well that is the question of this topic, whether God or omniscience exists. And I accept your disbelief in it so we differ there. Indeed there may not...

Even humans sometimes do not live up to their own moral standards. Because morality sometimes is such a grey area between right and wrong it is hard t...

Complex to us, perhaps, yet omniscience is not a property of god but rather it is God as explained by the article I posted in my previous post and her...

You’re making an assumption about the nature of god, instead I would argue for divine simplicity instead of complexity. The issue of course is one of ...

I’m not denying evolution or entropy nor how life came to be through such processes but they happen because the laws of nature allow evolution to occu...

So you think processes such as cell replication or photosynthesis come to be by pure chance? A designer would have better explanatory power here. Labe...

Whether the design is poor or optimal is irrelevant, the point is to prove that there is (any) design, which would lead to a designer. If there was no...

My beliefs are based on observation of the natural world which as I’ve stated before shows signs of intelligence, design whatever you wanna call it. T...

I was just asking… Uncreated, eternal existence is easier to digest logically than a created one, granted, as the latter would require how’s and why’s...

I think you give governments more credit than they are due when it comes to their ability to cover their tracks…after all there would be leaks somewhe...

Not just us but all life forms show intelligent processes in them such as plants through photosynthesis. My view of intelligence is that it has always...

I assume that would mean that God is not separate from his creation. I guess the question is where did these laws of nature, physics etc come from or ...

In my view the universe displays signs of intelligence through its beings which would imply intrinsic intelligence embedded within it from the start, ...

I think we’re lucky to exist. Sure life is unfair and a struggle at times but we’re lucky enough to experience the good that comes from it. You don’t ...

The probability of life emerging elsewhere in the universe where there are trillions of solar systems is greater than 0 so there’s probably life out t...

I think that is a better version of Christianity, where human beings are able to exist without any repercussions regarding the choices they make in th...

Nature encourages diversity and incest does the opposite, not to mention birth defects that could result from it. Even if it was purely for recreation...

The intelligence manifested by the universe does not necessarily entail an intelligent designer but it does not rule it out either. To me it strongly ...

You’re misconstruing what abiogenesis is, it is the emergence of life from non-life via natural processes not spontaneous generation. Therefore it rem...

Thanks for that, it just goes to outline another limitation of language, not its finitude but its inability to map to uncountable infinite elements. T...

That’s because the points on a line are infinite, why can’t there be infinite words ?

No you won’t, you can just create new identifiers (words).

But isn’t making making a measurement simply taking a snapshot or picture of how things are at that moment in time ? Where does the observer come into...

No issue, just make up a new word for it. Or letter number designation.

It can also express ideas from abstract to concrete. The descriptive power of words and language only fails when it overreaches this domain by trying ...

Language is limited if it extends itself beyond descriptions of reality, logic or experience. It especially fails when it comes to describing emotions...

To describe some aspect of experience or reality. To articulate wants and communicate ideas.

I’ve used the term pre-existing to describe a phenomenon that has always existed prior to its manifestation in nature in this case intelligence. As we...

Thanks wonderer that makes more sense, although abiogenesis is unsatisfactory at this time in terms of providing answers or conclusive explanation of ...

Abiogenesis is simply a theory of how life came from non-life, what’s woo-woo about that ? It’s just a word for a type of process(es) that occurred 3....

You keep calling it woo-woo, but doesn’t all science aim and attempt to explain natural phenomena using the scientific method? You’re incorrect in you...

How would you be able to obtain empirical evidence of the creation of life from non life which is said to have occurred 3.5 billion years ago ? The be...

I believe it’s an accepted scientific theory, what’s the alternative when it comes to explaining the origin of life ?

No my claim is that something exists before it manifests as an actual thing in the world, in this case intelligence. To me at least it has always exis...

You’re restricted by the physical limitations of being human, would a bird capable of flying to Hawaii have more freedom than you in this scenario? Th...

In order to answer the question of whether we are truly free we first have to know or define what freedom is. If freedom is the choice to live and mak...

The real issue with psychology is that it tries to treat non-organic problems organically that is through medication which can be inhumane rather than...

Emotion is something that is felt, take for example love, the degree to which it can be expressed in words is limited, we can utter I love you or we c...

What if you witnessed a unicorn in fiction such as in a movie or a book, does the unicorn exist in this type of frame or it doesn’t exist because it’s...

My view is pantheistic more than anything and probably Spinozist. Instead of power though I’m using the term intelligence which although not synonymou...

The first example is a decision not based on neutrality, values or beliefs though. We’re not always making decision based on neutrality, personal beli...

No threats, but circumstances, such as: you have to work otherwise you will end up on the streets or no food on table is such an example of a forced d...

I can make correct decisions based on my taste rather then belief, the sense of taste is subjective to me for example I prefer to drink orange juice i...

What about a forced decision, one that is imposed upon someone without their consent ?

What about microscopic organisms which we can’t see with our naked eye but only through microscopes do they only exist when they’re perceived via such...

Yes we don’t but we’ve given that process a name called Abiogenesis, the alternative would be woo-woo as to how life came about and we don’t want that...

Sure I will grant you this and that it can’t be empirically verified. And I or you cannot know for sure if it did exist in a prior universe as we can’...

Not faith, I know Intelligence actualised in this universe, what’s your actual objection to it not having actualised in a prior universe also?