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Can you define what you mean by 'harmony'? Its an interesting area. We used to maybe growl to indicate unhappiness and grunt to indicate happiness. We...

They must have different circles in your parts...

Each chain of causes requires a concrete start - the first cause causes the second cause - the second cause doe not exist if it is not caused by the f...

Time has a start. So there is a state of existence without time. This state must of somehow 'caused' the start of time. I fail to see what problem you...

If you have read the thread, you would see that logic has taken us to the conclusion that something permanent, external to time, somehow caused time. ...

We only know one state of existence - spacetime. You are ruling out all the other possible states of existence - things not involving space or time ev...

The OP reaches a deductive conclusion, but that conclusion is based on the assumption that causality is universal within space time. The assumption of...

Can you assign your estimated probabilities to each option?

Hello Poetic! My opinion is that the universe is not perfect, but optimal given the constraints that the (probable) creator of the universe was workin...

Well the idea is you explain why it doesn't seem that way to you... and we sort of debate it - rhetoric - as the ancient greek philosophers called it ...

We certainly need something like that. Timelessness it seems must have something of a non-sequential nature about it. The idea of superposition - that...

You have to put yourself in the mind of Thomas - this was before the discovery of biological evolution and they still thought the earth was the centre...

Folding timelessness and temporality into one entity is quite a trick - can you expand? Timelessness is where I am stuck. The only sort of change we a...

I have never made my mind up on panentheism. A simplistic way of looking at it: In the beginning there was: 1. God. He made the universe from part of ...

Yes, there must be something self-powered, IE intelligent in the universe. If you look at all natural systems that are purely composed of dumb objects...

And your counter argument?

What is nature though? Is it the stuff in spacetime? Then anything beyond might class as super-natural. Its interesting to think that we are aware of ...

1. The interaction of the match on the matchbox causes friction - the effect is combustion. 2. The interaction of the match on the fuse causes combust...

Events happen but they are not an effects (they might be coincidental with effects, but generally they are not). An effect is matter/energy interactin...

No. The cause of the movement past the balls was the cue hitting the (now) moving ball. An effect is some force applying to matter/energy. An event is...

An event is not an effect. We are talking about cause and effect here.

We could also add St Thomas Aquinas's 3rd of 5 ways to prove the existence of God. He assumed in his argument that the axiom: ‘can’t get something fro...

The impact of the cue on the ball causes an equal and opposite reaction as per Newton's 2nd law. It imparts kinetic energy to the ball. The cause of t...

The event is the billiard ball going down the table. The event is elongated in time. The cause is the cue (or another ball) hitting the first ball.

Look at it this way: 1. The argument from causality is strongly suggestive of a timeless first cause 2. The fact that time has a start is strongly sug...

You are getting very confused: 1. The OP proves (assuming causality) that a timeless first cause is required. The OP has nothing to do with fine tunin...

I see. But I still feel that the probability of all 20+ parameters coming out in life supporting ranges by accident is very likely incredibly remote. ...

- If 100 come out 6, I loose 100 dollars - If 99 come out 6, I gain a million dollars - Any other result is neutral (?) I would take the wager.

The billiard ball is set in motion, perhaps by another ball or the cue - this is Newton's 2nd law in action. The balls each exert a minor attraction t...

It's 20+ separate parameters... it has to be some huge number. All I'm saying is it must be huge. I'm not quite following your argument.

Can you give me an example of a macro-level phenomena without a cause? The creation of the universe is a macro level event - huge amounts of matter we...

Well I prefer to make a rough estimate rather than just saying 'I don't know'. I think a rough estimate is sufficient in this case - the number in que...

No it is not - it is matter acting on matter via Newton's 2nd and 3rd law.

I am just estimating the chances - what else can I do? I'm not a quantum physicist! There are about 20 separate parameters. Conservatively assuming th...

I am afraid that I cannot give you any more than wild guesses on the actual probabilities of specific parameters being within life supporting range. B...

Not sure what to say - causality is about as good an axiom as it comes - but there is no way we can be 100% sure that it holds universally - so I have...

Take one item - the electro-magnetic force: 1. It could have attractive, repulsive or attractive and repulsive action. The 3rd is required for life. T...

The first cause must be able to cause something whilst not being effected in anyway. So it must be self driven - capable of independent action - intel...

That's correct, its a guess, but all the following parameters must be within life supporting ranges: 1. Properties of quarks 2. Properties of election...

My argument in the OP is based purely on causality and is not at all circular. I have merely pointed out that the causality-based argument is supporte...

I assumed - quite reasonably - when you called my OP 'shite' that you were disagreeing with it! Please state your counter arguments if you have any.

You are really out of ideas aren't you! Can you not even summon up one counter argument?

Multiple universe theories fail to justify the 'strong anthropic principle'. Do you suppose all such universe are made of radically different stuff to...

OK, but you started it - you called my OP shite without any justification whatsoever.

Spacetime was caused by something - the cause of the Big Bang. That it was caused by something implies there must be something external to spacetime. ...

It was a church council where the canon of the Bible was decided, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_Christian_biblical_canon ...

The particles in the nucleus are always moving around - I'm no quantum physicist, but I guess it is the interplay of strong nuclear force and the elec...

Consider a computer program that is designed to generate random universes - the parameters of the standard model and Big Bang are randomised and a res...

Hi Tim! For the record, I have just been having a quiet think to myself for the last few months. I think that everything in time has a cause. We canno...

Time is sequential in nature and therefore enables change. We can imagine some sort of non-sequential structure such as a binary tree, or a map, that ...