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It's due to the very fabric of space expanding. It's likened to a balloon inflating. So nothing breaks the speed of light limit but things on the oppo...
April 26, 2019 at 12:28
I don't follow you. Which of the 10 arguments are you referring to?
April 26, 2019 at 12:15
Different dictionaries have different definitions of supernatural. Here is one: Definition of supernatural (1) : of or relating to an order of existen...
April 26, 2019 at 08:26
A fair point. I suppose I could resort to the light cone argument but then effecting something outside your light cone is impossible and omnipotent us...
April 26, 2019 at 08:09
Supratemporal is timeless. There is a little about it in relativity: photons are timeless, but really we have no idea how this could work. Which is a ...
April 26, 2019 at 07:39
Islam's Allah is meant to be the same as the Christian God / the jewish Yahweh - Muhammed was continuing a traditional god rather than defining a whol...
April 26, 2019 at 06:22
You can deduce stuff from false arguments by conjunction introduction: 'Trees walk' - is false But 'Socrates is a man OR trees walk' is true. https://...
April 25, 2019 at 21:53
Sorry misread your comment. A fallacious argument could be a contradiction. As mentioned above, contradictions allow you to deduce anything.
April 25, 2019 at 21:47
Yes if a logical error is made in the derivation. There is a set of valid derivation rules called syllogisms. If you don't stick to these rules you ge...
April 25, 2019 at 21:43
If an argument is derived from valid premises and the derivation is valid logic, then it is a valid argument. Anything following on from it is also va...
April 25, 2019 at 21:29
On Russell, I would have phrased it a bit different; its possible to be very intelligent and very wrong at the same time. There is no basis in logic f...
April 25, 2019 at 18:25
Please enlighten us all.
April 25, 2019 at 12:25
What did I say that was irrational?
April 25, 2019 at 12:25
I am an ex computer programmer so I have a limited amount of knowledge.
April 25, 2019 at 11:26
I said: 'All you have to do to disprove God is show the universe is not a creation'. Yes I know, thats because is a creation :) There is a long histor...
April 25, 2019 at 11:23
God created the universe. It is impossible to create anything infinite (because you would never finish doing so) so the universe must be finite. So in...
April 25, 2019 at 08:24
My last post relies on a strict definition of division. It should actually be possible to take a finite part of an infinite whole... sorry.
April 25, 2019 at 08:15
So Jesus is not infinite and Jesus was a part of God. That means God cannot be infinite (because ? / 2 = ?; IE any division of infinity is itself infi...
April 25, 2019 at 08:06
? / 2 = ? ...according to conventional transfinite arithmetic (which is wrong IMO). But the conventional math would suggest if Jesus was a part of God...
April 25, 2019 at 07:57
One of the two holy texts should say: 'The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster' or the 'The Loose Canon'. If Timeless Flying Spaghetti Monster exis...
April 25, 2019 at 07:46
There is quite a theory to it: "The central creation myth is that an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe "after d...
April 25, 2019 at 07:22
Timeless Flying Spaghetti Monster.
April 25, 2019 at 07:14
So Jesus is a 'portion' of God rather than the whole of God. So Jesus is not a faithful copy of God - the part is not equal to the whole. By creating ...
April 25, 2019 at 07:07
'God - NOUN 1(in Christianity and other monotheistic religions) the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme b...
April 25, 2019 at 06:58
The teapot argument is I think about the some of the ridiculous claims made about God in conventional religions. Once a realistic definition of God is...
April 25, 2019 at 06:52
I defined God as the creator of the universe by saying those two propositions are equivalent.
April 25, 2019 at 06:47
I did define God: I addressed the point natural vs. supernatural by pointing there must logically be an supernatural first cause.
April 25, 2019 at 06:44
Nature is the contents of spacetime. Spacetime was created in the BB. By something not of spacetime. IE something supernatural. So we can't dismiss th...
April 25, 2019 at 06:34
The Big Bang looks like empirical evidence for an unnatural first cause: - Natural events come in pluralities. The BB was a singleton - Entropy was un...
April 25, 2019 at 06:17
I think an argument contrary to conventional religion can be made for 3 out of 4 Os: Omnipotence - Could God create a copy of himself? If he did creat...
April 25, 2019 at 05:54
All you have to do to disprove God is show the universe is not a creation. There is a long history of theist justification for the existence of God, p...
April 25, 2019 at 05:44
- AIs based on neural networks need training. We should be able to train this type of AI into behaving morally - If we fitted the AI with an "off swit...
April 25, 2019 at 05:17
It could in theory happen any time - some researcher somewhere comes up with a true AI. And with all the world's computers linked by the internet, a h...
April 24, 2019 at 16:25
There is the question of whether it is eternal life with the option of escape (IE death) or eternal life period (with no possible escape). I take it y...
April 23, 2019 at 18:31
I think its a very natural drive; self preservation is our number one instinct, so its not surprising the instinct extends to beyond the grave. There ...
April 23, 2019 at 18:22
Why do you keep dying? What if life is but a dream and dying is waking up? Maybe you go through an arbitrary large number of deaths, each time awakeni...
April 23, 2019 at 17:38
Your problem is you are just considering isolated elements in the chain and saying yes, they each have a predecessor. So individually it makes sense b...
April 22, 2019 at 15:22
The 'two distinct end points' I would interpret as start and end.
April 22, 2019 at 12:14
"In geometry, a line segment is a part of a line that is bounded by two distinct end points, and contains every point on the line between its endpoint...
April 22, 2019 at 12:09
For any shape you can choose an arbitrary start and end points. For example, a triangle, I can choose its tip as start and its base as end. Why do you...
April 22, 2019 at 12:04
Yes thats possible, but you might have to account for the problem of now: It seems we can tell the difference between then and now so there must be so...
April 22, 2019 at 12:01
With a line the start and end points are separated by the line length. I'm doing the same with a circle: take a point as the start, add the circle len...
April 22, 2019 at 11:53
Yes, infinite regresses in time are just unsatisfactory / impossible. Where is the first cause? Circular time appears self-sustaining with the last ef...
April 22, 2019 at 11:47
- I could say the beginning is 0º. Then adding 360º to that I get to the end: 0º, which is also the beginning Or equally: - I could say the beginning ...
April 22, 2019 at 11:39
By spotlight I mean a cursor or current position indicator corresponding to 'now'. So the idea is that all of time is real in a sense and has a circul...
April 22, 2019 at 11:18
A circle has an arbitrary choice of beginning/end points - choosing any point is valid as a beginning/end of a circle. It's conventional to put t=0 (t...
April 22, 2019 at 10:57
Where does the moving spotlight begin? Maybe at t=0 the Big Bang. Then the circle of time fills out and then repeats itself (or maybe the whole thing ...
April 22, 2019 at 10:49
In the OP I calculated 28% but that is probably on the generous side... I was hoping by the end of the discussion to arrive at a more accurate estimat...
April 22, 2019 at 10:32
I'm not quite sure what you mean; where the spotlight falls on the torus is 'now' with before and after falling to each side of the spotlight. Perhaps...
April 22, 2019 at 10:27