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Statistics estimates nature very well; one example is the bell curve. Statistics I thought was also the essence of QM?? The question I posed, the answ...
June 22, 2018 at 12:57
You are not doing the math correct, I get: 96.25% chance of an abstract creator for universe 0.0009625% chance of a Rabbit creator for universe The ca...
June 22, 2018 at 09:14
Here is a simpler example so you get the math: It helps if you think about the probability space as a box. Let’s start with the proposition ‘the dog i...
June 21, 2018 at 23:01
Dude you can’t add...
June 21, 2018 at 20:51
Yes sorry I’ve tried to explain the math better below (I’ve used different % numbers so the derivation is hopefully clearer). Proposition 1 - There wa...
June 21, 2018 at 19:14
I need an answer to this question so I use the only tools at my disposal. I know these tools are not entirely satisfactory: science gives provisional ...
June 20, 2018 at 19:26
I fail to appreciate your objections. We can have absolute knowledge of abstract concepts only (eg logic and maths); we can never have absolute knowle...
June 20, 2018 at 12:54
Thats rather defeatist attitude. Do you not keep abreast of science? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe
June 20, 2018 at 09:57
“An explanation that posits the existence of objects without explaining where the objects came from is not complete.” “Does there need to be an explan...
June 20, 2018 at 01:32
An explanation that posits the existence of objects without explaining where the objects came from is not complete. I’d also argue if we give any of t...
June 19, 2018 at 22:22
“Things could’ve always been” - what created the things then? How can they exist at all? Way back in time, each thing must of had a cause or are you i...
June 19, 2018 at 20:28
the act of creation of TIME does not require TIME. Why is there anything at all instead of just nothingness? For anything to exist at all, causality m...
June 19, 2018 at 11:53
But God existing within time and space gives us the old regression problem of who created time and space (if it were not god)?
June 18, 2018 at 19:57
Yes sorry, my original question would of been better expressed as: Is god Everlasting (within time) or Timeless (outside of time) I can’t make sense o...
June 18, 2018 at 02:20