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But distorted in a predicable / pre-calculable manner? Well it might be a chance to shed light on the inconsistency? I would agree that her heartbeats...

I think that these two questions are quite distinct: 1. 'Is there a God?' 2. 'Was the universe created by an intelligent agent?' The first, bearing mi...

I wonder if anything could be deduced by a constant, mutual, radio broadcast of each other's heartbeats to each other. That would allow verification o...

The only meta-universe / multiuniverse theory I have any familiarity with is ‘Eternal Inflation’ - the current favoured model amongst cosmologists. It...

What makes you believe: - Gravity applies to a meta universe / multiverse - Hawking radiation does not The 2nd is an inevitable result of the first? B...

The arguments that apply to this universe apply equally to any containing universe or multiverse.

If we imagine a universe with no start of time and just gravity, then though the mechanism of gravity (and orbital decay), a huge black hole is the on...

Russell's counter argument against Aquinas was surprisingly weak for such a clever guy, he said the five ways: "depend on the supposed impossibility o...

Thanks Athena! I am afraid I'm not much of a physicist and photons are a mighty mysterious particle, but below are my thoughts. I understand that phot...

The past is constantly increasing in size so the amount of historical knowledge we can accumulate is constantly increasing. But there is only one set ...

I believe that absolute knowledge is possible in some instances, but I would agree that absolute knowledge on the question of the origin of things, ca...

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I guess we have to distinguish between: 1. Past Eternity 2. Future Eternity is, under the presentist model of time anyway, a form a potential infinity...

Indeed, but to answer the OP question about the existence of Hell, one has to first make the assumption that the soul exists - I should have probably ...

I'm not sure I have any. Do you? As far as extended longevity goes, it seems to me the only possibility is some form of circular, eternal, time, which...

1. If God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent, then all his children would be well behaved children and there would be no need for Hell - he would simply...

Something existing for an eternity of past time is an impossibility. To see this you can for example imagine a 24h clock that has exist forever and ha...

I think that your interpretation is probably a minority view - I am no expert but I understand that different sects of Christianity interpret the bibl...

"They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might" - 2 Thessalonians 1:9 ...

I think evolution is about survival of the fittest species rather than the fittest individual. So we have socially evolved such that we are superior t...

“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” - Matthew 25:46 I cannot personally believe that any entity would c...

(Social) Evolution is an ongoing process. It is to be hoped that it will come up with a better model than capitalism in due course. Particularly a mod...

You have a different version of the bible to the one I'm familiar with: "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immo...

There seems to me to be no other argument that explains the origin of things. To paraphrase Aquinas's 3rd way: 1. Can't get something from nothing 2. ...

If the creator deity has permanent timeless existence - then it does not need explaining - it just 'IS' in a tenseless way - it is beyond time so beyo...

I don't believe that past time is infinite - I was just pointing out that infinite past time and a natural origin of the Big Bang seem to be incompati...

If past time is infinite and the Big Bang is a natural event then it seems an infinite number of big bangs must have occurred: (non-zero chance of Big...

Under the Christian belief system there is the spectre of Hell which seems to undermine the free will argument against the problem of evil. Excepting ...

We are the dominant species on the planet and we are social / communal animals, not lone predators. So the selfishness approach has lost the evolution...

I find these definitions helpful: Natural event = something with a non-zero probability of occurring naturally over time. Supernatural event (a miracl...

Yes I'm not claiming we live in a 'well functioning society', merely that such is possible if all people were right thinking people. Capitalism seems ...

I think there is a natural feedback mechanism - if you perform an action that is against the greater good but seemingly in your own personal interest,...

The first hit on Bing is a scholarly work that agrees with Aquinas’s, Leibniz, et all, that infinite regressions are not possible: https://philpapers....

I'm not sure what you mean - believing that the world is not eternal because of a believe in God and a belief in the impossibility of eternal infinite...

I think he gave a specific reason why he thought the world was not eternal - I have highlighted it above in the quote I gave from the first way - infi...

I believe Aquinas thought God was eternal and timeless, but that the universe was not. If you read his prime mover argument (see below), he explicitly...

If the series of dominos is eternal, it has no first member (if it had a first member, it would have a start, so not be eternal). If it has no first m...

We can logically deduce there must have been a ‘time’ when time cannot have existed: 1. There must have been a first event within time. The first even...

Our experience with reality suggests that all things eventually arrive at equilibrium unless there is some form of intelligent agent to prevent that h...

If that's what you believe then please provide counter arguments to the OP.

It would be very neat, but can time really emerge from timeless thermodynamic phenomena? If entropy increases causes time to flow, we would expect tim...

Fields making up empty space? Sounds like substantivalism. All the fields I’m aware of have time as a determinate variable; a field is just a static p...

You misunderstand me - I will try to clarify. I’m aware of how multiple dimensions work. What I was discussing in my last post was if there is any alt...

I wonder if we could have the timeless environment as the usual 3 spacial dimensions plus an unordered set to represent the 4th dimension: - Events wo...

Interesting. I have a few questions: What caused potential to go from a non-aware situation to an aware situation? Or was the potential ‘always’ aware...

I am unsure over the nature of spacetime, including the Relationalism Vs Substantivalism question. As a supporter of the first, maybe you can address ...

I believe that many early christians were vegetarian. I'm a vegetarian and so I'd like it if Jesus was too, but the bible seems to contradict this: - ...

I'm discussing a timeless basis for reality and a timeless God - not quite sure what you mean?

We have an ‘eternal realm’ - a required, atemporal basis for all of reality and a ‘timed realm’ - the sequentially ordered reality we are familiar wit...

The simulation hypotheses is interesting and there are some strong arguments in favour of it, but an argument against it is that there are approximate...