If God created the material universe then it follows logically that matter is a concept in God's mind. Matter is not an eternal substance, it is a mat...
Matter is two things. The substance of matter is energy. The form of matter is geometry. When energy cools it condenses into material patterns - like ...
That depends on how you define evidence. I'm defining evidence as what exists be it a dust mote or a galaxy or anything in between. 'Evidence for' is ...
Matter is not a substance it is a mathematical concept. It is a pattern in an energy field. These patterns can be described mathematically. Matter is ...
If the universe contains beauty we can say that God knows and values beauty. You could counter this by saying the universe also contains ugliness. But...
Evidence is everything; everything from a dust mote to a galaxy. Russell argued that there is not enough evidence for God's existence but there is a w...
The theory of evolution is founded on chance. I know Dawkins would not agree but it is because it depends utterly on mutations coming up with useful c...
Faith is not some vacuous belief that is without foundation. It is based on reason and intelligence but reason and intelligence that transcends the na...
I think the same objection could be raised against materialists; they argue that biological structures bring intelligence into being when the evidence...
Yes, but it also makes us reassess how likely the existence of life in the universe is and calls into question the assertion that life 'must' be abund...
Often people say that life must be abundant in the universe and this belief is based on the idea that life arises spontaneously from matter. The argum...
1. Mechanical power - human 2. Mechanical power married to electromagnetic power - human 3. Mechanical + electromagnetic + computing power - human 4. ...
Meh. I don't see much depth in the Fermi Paradox because of the way it is stated. It assumes they are not here because they are not visible. There are...
Yes but what is the 'I Am'? That depends on how you use the words 'existence' and 'being'. Sometimes they are interchangeable. I am using 'existence' ...
Real belief in God is a matter of consciousness not intellect. Intellectual knowledge is only one kind of knowledge. More sublime levels of knowledge ...
Existence and God are the same thing. Existence is not a property of any created thing. Created things are properties of existence. Necessary existenc...
Probability means that out of a number of events each has the same likelihood of happening. But how can we say they are all equally likely? How can we...
The problem with randomness is we don't have a rigorous definition of it. Also, if 100 events have an equal probability of happening they are said to ...
The universe exists within God. Physical (space)time is a physical object just like a chair or table except it has an extra dimension. 'Before time' i...
If God creates a stone He cannot lift that does not mean God is not omnipotent it means that there is no natural way to lift the stone. A strong man c...
Omnipotent does not mean being able to do illogical things. It means God is capable of doing everything that is naturally and logically possible. It i...
The world we experience is subjective and this subjectivity has been used to create the most preposterous philosophies claiming that the world is not ...
It seems to me that there are many kinds of time. The most obvious is physical time. Another is mental time. Also mathematical time. Mathematics IS ti...
For me the cornerstone of morality is the sacredness of life. One should not harm life because it is sacred (humanists - replace sacred with worthy, v...
Physical time is a physical object just like a chair or table except it has an extra dimension. If physical objects disappear so will physical time. A...
Perhaps we have a self but it isn't much if it is not in a relationship to something. The ever changing river is the relationship between us and the w...
It seems to me that the self - or a large part of it - is our relationship with the world. It is ever changing - you can't step into the same river tw...
As is often the case a correlates with b but there is a hidden variable x that is unknown, such that x -> a -> b or x -> b or x -> a and x -> b These ...
Alternatively you could say it necessarily exists because it exists. It could not have been otherwise because it is what it is and there is nothing el...
Thanks. An existence that is not contingent on a previous state is necessary in the sense that there is nothing to stop it from existing. It simply is...
A starting point in time is not really an issue. What matters is that something must necessarily exist if something contingent is to exist; an oak tre...
Walking is the same in this context as thinking because he cannot know he walks unless the knows - ie thinks - he walks. Even if he is not walking he ...
What happens a person's consciousness when they leave university? Not much. University is a concept or a context designed to bring about certain ends;...
Anything else is illogical. Nothingness cannot have anything in it. Nothingness is not even an 'it'. If there is something happening in nothingness, t...
If something comes from nothing you have to begin with nothing. And for nothing to become something there must be an impulse within nothing. But nothi...
Perhaps everything that can be, is. Because there is nothing to stop it. Therefore both nothingness and existence are possible and existence wins out ...
Good question. It is possible to dismantle matter so that you are left with energy. Is it possible to dismantle energy and find a deeper energy? And d...
Change is evidence of time but time is more than change, it is the mathematical description of change. In Relativity this description is the geometry ...
But some humans are good. God is creating a situation where 'all will be well and all manner of things will be well'. But in order to do this creation...
The question is 'how does God know what we will do at T2?' He knows because that is what we chose to do. That is, God's knowledge is a result of our a...
The senses are not the only means to knowledge. The mind is conscious. Religion is only an interpretation of God. Maybe many people were aware of God ...
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime... P_{1}: all odd numbers greater than 1 are prime. 3 x 5 = 15 which is composite. \neg P_{1}: At least one odd num...
Reductio Absurdum makes a conjecture and follows that conjecture through until a contradiction is reached. The negation of the conjecture can then mak...
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