Truth is of mutual benefit. IMO the truth lies somewhere between the two positions (I am deist). Understanding from both sides is required. Blinding p...
Accepting devil's advocate which is sometimes required. Room for speculative discussions is required, other than that, sound advise. Not everyone on t...
Richard Dawkins is especially vicious with theists. He uses his intelligence to torment less intelligent people IMO. On the other side, theists use th...
I wonder though that the 'I do not know attitude' is the only valid attitude to take? If everyone had that attitude then we would not progress so fast...
Frank is a committed agnostic I think. He denies the validity of empirical and theoretical evidence of a first cause. He also denies we can use probab...
Actually it could make sense in terms of if pantheism holds initially - God is everything at the start - in order to make the universe he needs to tak...
I see! No offence taken. I had not thought of it like that... a first movement... the prime mover... not awfully respectful! I believe that certain an...
Everything is moving apart from everything else so everything must have once been one. We have evidence of this from the redshifts of galaxies and the...
I concur that is a possible solution to the original paradox. With the more specific definition: 'prisoner will not be able to deduce the time of hang...
On Thursday evening the prisoner can deduce that he will be hanged on Friday (so he cannot be hanged) On Wednesday evening though, the prisoner cannot...
Yes, it is a poor choice of word. Rather than: 'the hanging will be a surprise to the prisoner' Better to say: 'prisoner will not be able to deduce th...
Capitalism is a system that turns personal greed into common good through specialisation and economies of scale. It's hugely inefficient but better th...
The question 'was the universe created or not?' is imminently determinable. I gave you a load of evidence and you have not rebutted it. Put it this wa...
All motion can be traced back to the Big Bang. Animate things are put in in motion by other animate things which are ultimately put in motion by inani...
The only axiom used generally is cause and effect (and not even that for some of the proofs). That is only the prime mover argument - 1 of 10 and anyw...
What I'm claiming is: - there are many proofs that a first cause exists - there are some things we can deduce about the first cause You could try to c...
There has to be a first cause that is also timeless - something has to have permanent existence and that something has to create time. Aquinas's Argum...
The first cause is timeless - beyond causality. It has 'always' existed. It was not created. This is the only way to avoid an infinite regress of time...
It is logically impossible for anything to exist without a first cause. It's the axioms that are usually attacked. For example, all that is needed to ...
The question 'Does God exist?' requires a definition of God which is not always provided with the 'proof of God'. It is not a meaningful question with...
A variation on an idea of French philosopher Jean Buridan: 1. Flying Spaghetti Monster Exists 2. None of the statements in this pair is true You have ...
You are referring to the theory of Eternal Inflation? That is the dominant cosmological theory and it posits a common first cause for all the big bang...
Inflation explains it perfectly though - just like an expanding balloon, the further apart the dots/galaxies are, the faster the distance between them...
How does your theory account for the fact that only distant galaxies appear to move FTL and closer galaxies do not? There is a relationship between ho...
If creation was a natural phenomenon we would see more than one instance of it - in fact with infinite time, we'd see an infinite number of creation e...
I don't think anyone can explain it at present - we don't know exactly what is going on. Astronomers talk of the metric expanding. So it is maybe spac...
But we have an explanation - space is expanding. Only distant galaxies appear to recede at FTL, all nearby galaxies do not. This supports the idea tha...
- The speed of light speed limit is one of the best empirically established facts in science - It is also predicted theoretically (see Maxwell) - It m...
If you want to debate whether the universe is a creation or not, I suggest this thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5577/was-there-a-fir...
This a great mystery. The mechanism of expansion is unknown. What we do know is distance galaxies have redshifts of greater than 1 (the speed of light...
Space is space - nothing - so I don't think it can be said to be moving. The particles within it are moving but not space itself. Do you have a beef w...
No the galaxies don't move, space inflates. Think of the rubber band example - from the perspective of a dot on the band, stretching of the band invol...
I gave the definition of supernatural I'm using - not of spacetime. Spacetime was clearly a creation so that implies the existence of the supernatural...
The medium (space) is stretching. The things in the medium (the galaxies) are not moving. Imagine inflating a ballon full of floating particles. The p...
- What is not clear about the rubber band analogy? The dots do not move, the band stretches - You are going against what all of the astronomers tell u...
Nothing is moving faster than the speed of light. The dots/galaxies do not move at all - space expands in-between. If I stretch these dots out (by str...
Imagine a rubber band with two dots on it (=galaxies). When you stretch the band, the dots/galaxies do not move (relative to their immediate surroundi...
It's not the galaxies that are moving; it is the metric of space expanding - it's as if new space is appearing between the galaxies. I'm no expert, he...
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