You could say though, if you regard God as a necessary being, that Occam might favour the simplest solution to 'what should be at the start?' which is...
The argument is a common sense one: First you define nothing as no dimensions, matter or energy. Then its pretty clear that nothing can come from it; ...
I used Occam's razor in a hypothetical sort of way; the question of what we should expect; 'what should be?'; by way of reality, I answered with the s...
If you have in mind a materialist God, then science has a lot to say potentially about such a God. If you have in mind a non-materialist God, then by ...
I think Hawking was probably wrong about God, but its an important question and I do care what intelligent people thing about it and scientists are as...
There is no such size: 1. Assume X is a size that is 'greater than any other size' 2. But X+1>X 3. So there is no size that is 'greater than any other...
They have over complicated matters. The link I gave you was written by the most sensible cosmologist out there; some of the others are just on cloud n...
Some Cosmologists do, for example: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/02/20/infinity-ruining-physics/#.W8ONzy-ZPOQ Just because the universe ...
It is disappointing to see such a decline in moral standards. There is a small subset of people who commit heinous crimes across all societies: https:...
Would you call this a construction of Actual Infinity? lim 1/n n->0 I would not. It never reaches actual infinity because n is always finite (no matte...
Good point, time is so mysterious and ethereal; wonder if he somehow thought an infinity of time was different to infinity of other kinds. I see all i...
I was thinking of trying to get an article published on Infinity. I thought I'd post it here first. Any thoughts? Infinite Confusion Infinity has been...
You are still not getting it: - I am not asserting that there should be nothing rather than something - I am asserting that its strange that there is ...
Your not following the argument; the fact that we exist now, neither adds or distracts from the strangeness that there should be something rather than...
I did have support from Occam's Razor: nothing is the simpler model; there are less moving parts; everything is explained for because there is nothing...
I've seen a few odd things in my time that make me think of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis If we are really all living in a Simu...
Not if you are thinking 4D space-time; you have to imagine the universe as a static object in 4D space-time. What is the shape/topology of that object...
I don't think God (if he exists) is Omnipotent or Omniscient. Both are irrational demands upon a deity; no-one can make 1+2=2 or know all the digits o...
Mathematically you are wrong; if there is a non-zero chance that God exists, then investing in Pascal's wager is in our interests. I define God as the...
No, for any boolean proposition, you start at 50%/50% and then alter the odds in light of the evidence. For example: Was there a creator God? Start wi...
Thats correct, that is the starting point for your probability analysis. You then proceed to alter 50% up/down by admitting evidence for and against t...
I think the truth and happiness can coincide; depends what you believe the 'truth' is I suppose. I've spent years thinking about the 'truth' and I thi...
One implies the other. I agree with you but I've looked at Special Relativity; it seems sound enough and its accepted by nearly all scientists and phi...
We use maths to reason about the material world. Infinity is impossible in the material world. Maths should not reflect whats impossible. We have theo...
Whether God exists or not is a boolean question. With no evidence either way, its correct to assign a 50%/50% outcome. A rational mind should not be s...
A universal speed limit makes sense for any universe; if you allow objects to be accelerated upto an infinite velocity (as in Newtonian mechanics), th...
Best way to think of Potential Infinity is a temporal, iterative process. Examples are counting, or walking. Both can potentially go on for ever but n...
Do you buy special relativity? He only has two axioms and both sound very reasonable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postulates_of_special_relativity A...
I'm using Aristotle's definition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_infinity I think space is finite: - The universe is expanding; if infinite th...
I guess its Occam's Razor; the simplest solution is nothing. Then nothing needs explaining. The fact there is something is quite shocking. Almost a po...
The Anthropic principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle Give a highly unsatisfactory pseudo-answer: There is something because ther...
Red shift of distance galaxies increases the further they are away from us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe If you want to deb...
There is a fundamental law of the universe that is defined in terms of time, the speed of light (speed = distance / time). Time is not some human inve...
Well its an interesting post but I believe time has a start and end so it does not chime with the direction of my thoughts. For time to have no beginn...
Its similar, but I was highlighting not an infinite number of steps; instead infinite information density. There is a limit already established on inf...
It is possible because of the nature of continuous: to move from point 0 to point 1, you first have to travel through point 0.1, then 0.01, then 0.001...
But the principle is the same. We start with no evidence. Likelihood of God 50% I think the big bang makes it 25% likely there is a God: 50% + 50% * 2...
Did not know about this thread. Hi everyone, I'm Dan from near London. I have no formal experience in Philosophy, but I have been reading up on it ove...
I was not; if you recall, I considering the attributes of God (should he exist). I'm mostly a materialist so any God should be material (and finite......
But if you had to assign a probability for some reason, what would you? Say we toss the coin 100 times and the person who guesses how many heads gets ...
You have general experience to suggest that there is no good reason for a submarine to be in Cape Cod Bay. Its not like we are at war or anything. So ...
It is knowledge of a hypothetical. I see no problem with that; aliens are hypothetical but we can still make deductions about their nature? I noticed ...
What I mean is you can divide continuous time to an infinite degree, so it can represent an infinite number of states, which equates to infinite infor...
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