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I agree. However, for better or worse the term Scientific Law is in general use. The overview in the Wikipedia article does a pretty good job of clari...

Isn't it obvious? On the seventh day, six times would not have been enough and eight times would have been too many. If you're still confused, perhaps...

My 3 years on TPF have helped me appreciate some of the jokes here

This is all interesting, but not what I asked. Perhaps I was not clear. I'm questioning why the word moral needs to be in here. Is there such a concep...

A question for all parties. Moral Responsibility Every voluntary action that a person takes (so excluding breathing, sleeping, etc) has some measurabl...

If I follow his "reasoning" he is not initially attributing powers - his starting point is to simply define the words. Then he is trying to somehow bo...

No. First of all we don't know that your omniscient being (AKA God) planted these imperatives of Reason in our minds, that's one of many things you ar...

I'm flattered, thanks. I always try to criticize the idea not the person. I'm actually a bit embarrassed at some of my earlier comments in this thread...

Why are you cutting and pasting an earlier post? There are enough holes in this line of reasoning to fill The Albert Hall. I did a whole back & forth ...

I cannot speak for anyone else, but I disagree with this. I only know you based on your writing, but based on that it is clear that you are highly inf...

@"Present awareness"@"Bartricks" Because according to our friend Bartricks, God can do ANYTHING. God can make a square circle. God can make a statemen...

How do you know that He has not created a square circle in a galaxy 20 billion light years away from you? Perhaps He texted you? Or maybe He has a blo...

So can the omnipotent being create another being that is MORE omnipotent than him? If yes, then that newly created more omnipotent being can create ye...

Can an omnipotent being create another being more omnipotent than itself? If no, then such a being is not omnipotent because there is something that i...

So you have no answer. As I thought. Truly ironic

I tried to create a non-sarcastic question but your posts are so bizarrely nonsensical that it slipped through. I apologize for that. That said, my re...

I plead ignorance in this discussion. Would you kindly list the "laws of Reason". If this list is too long, perhaps you can supply the top 10?

This is a variation on Hanlon's Razor

I never even get past the notion of greatest. No idea what that means. Who is the greatest soccer player? What is the greatest tuna fish sandwich? Etc...

I'd agree with that - The Civil War was worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation

If Trump and his supporters would be satisfied with the results of such an investigation there might be some merit in this proposal. But when that inv...

Maybe in your mind it is re-phrasing, but in fact it is an entirely different question. Other than that, I yield to @"L'Unico" and @"Mijin" in this co...

Quantum mechanics shows that events at the sub-atomic level are random and "un-caused". These "un-caused" events behave in a statistically predictable...

To Tim's list I would also add d. Things can exist without a prior cause

Of course there is no single precise definition of the word, but there is universal agreement that it has to do with the religion / God / etc. From WI...

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but that sort of expands the definition of the word beyond all recognition. I did a quick search and I'm not seeing any d...

Who let the dogs out? Not only do I have no idea, I am reconciled to the fact that I will live out the rest of my life and die without ever knowing wh...

There is a third option - namely that the sentence "God exists" has no coherent meaning and thus you cannot assign a truth value to it.

Interesting. Nietzsche is one of those folks that I just "don't get" - but maybe I'll give it a second look one of these days

Indeed. It is sad and a tragedy. I never thought I'd look back fondly at Barry Goldwater.

Frivolous was wrong word. Bogus. And while there may have been a few useful idiots in there - the overwhelming majority of Repubs signing on to those ...

Filing frivolous lawsuits is not an act of sedition. Stupid, harmful to political discourse, divisive? Yes. But not close to seditious.

I have many more important things to do with my life than to make sense of incoherent nonsense. I cannot assert this with 100% certainty, but I have a...

I apologize in advance for this disparaging comment - but this has to be one of the most unintentionally funny comments I have seen on the forum in a ...

But that does not answer my question. What is the semantic difference between "physical" and "existence"?

What is the difference from "being physical" and "existing"? Aren't those two ways of saying the same thing?

I'm a plain language person. So given the level of technical detail from fishfry et al, I'm jumping in here with more than a bit of trepidation. But f...

So next - would you personally prefer to live in a free / anarchic society OR would you prefer to live in a society which has clearly defined rules (a...

I'm not telling you anything. I understand your definition of the word "free" - and I am not criticizing your definition. OK - at least not yet . . . ...

Just to be clear - do you make any distinction between "free" vs "anarchy"? Or are those two words interchangeable?

I'm not following your logic. You agree with me that the question is wrong/illogical - i.e., the question has no meaning. And yet you go ahead and att...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but by your definition of "free society" am I free to kill someone I don't like?

For completeness, you might want to add this choice: 5. The question is wrong / illogical

I take my lead from Donald Trump - I only think the best thoughts. :joke:

Right - I was thinking of parachuting where you hit wind resistance. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but when you jump out of a plane, your inner ear detects ac...

I'm not trying to sound critical, but it seems like you already answered your question even before you posed it. Did you think that someone here on th...

"Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you." Gustav Holst I am in a similar situation and deeply relate...

You need to accelerate first to get to free fall velocity. Your inner ear detects acceleration.

I was a physics major in college. I make no claims to being very good at it, but once you accept the two basic premises that that nothing can go faste...