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You're allegedly proving the existence of a creator, so you can't assume it. You can follow both possibilities, and consider the probabilities. If he'...
January 15, 2020 at 15:33
What exculpatory evidence did I dismiss? I made a point of listing the facts of which I'm aware, and invited you to provide additional facts. You didn...
January 15, 2020 at 06:12
Nice try, but I noted the need to make an effort to understand all the available facts, whereas Trump clearly ignores evidence when making his accusat...
January 15, 2020 at 02:38
Sure- when we have prior knowledge of the probabilites, as in a coin toss. When else is it reasonable? If applying the Principle of Indifference (that...
January 14, 2020 at 23:50
I don't understand why he concludes she is instantaneously aging by a large amount at that turnaround. Suppose the turnaround were not instantaneous, ...
January 14, 2020 at 22:05
You're trying to have it both ways. First you said: But with the elephant, YOU are introducing evidence for/against the proposition. Which is it - do ...
January 14, 2020 at 21:30
OK, let's treat what I said as evidence. The fact that you are ignoring this evidence demonstrates assymmetry and bias. Normal distribution of 2 possi...
January 14, 2020 at 20:37
That's laughable to call a presumption of innocence a "precious human right, considering your support for President who so frequently accuses people o...
January 14, 2020 at 20:20
Thanks for the insight. I agree there was a historical mistake made, but there's no changing that. Do you have any thoughts about a path forward? e.g....
January 14, 2020 at 20:07
I didn't give you any evidence. I merely showed that the 2 possibilities you presented are not symmetrical. You're obsessing on exactly one of the ite...
January 14, 2020 at 19:53
Consider a random number generator that generates numbers between 1 and a1 billion. The number 379,219,771 is generated. It's odds were 1 in a billion...
January 14, 2020 at 19:06
You're missing the point: you are implictly treating life as a design objective. Indeed, if the goal was to have life, the designer needed to carefull...
January 14, 2020 at 18:38
I agree with much of what you said, but take issue with the above. I actually agree with the first sentence - it makes sense that women would like to ...
January 14, 2020 at 16:45
Criminal: A person who has committed a crime. (source) This definition does not say that conviction is necessary, just that the person committed a cri...
January 14, 2020 at 16:31
I agree that if one assumes the universe is fine-tuned for life, this entails a fine-tuner. The problem is that you cannot show that the universe was ...
January 14, 2020 at 16:06
Here's the statement of yours that I disagreed with: I disagreed because it seems a wallowing in comfirmation bias. Now you suggest we might reach a p...
January 12, 2020 at 04:01
I agree its a different thing, but Trump still owns all the unintended consequences of what follows. It is part of the ledger upon which his actions w...
January 11, 2020 at 21:32
That's another big, convenient assumption. Why assume they should be causally connected (which just means they are detectable)? The fact that others h...
January 11, 2020 at 21:28
Your point about indirect responsibility has some general merit, but not necessarily with Presidential actions that can have wide ranging consequences...
January 11, 2020 at 21:01
Sure, but it's an unintended consequence of the tense state of affairs Trump got us in. So although Iran is directly responsible, Trump bears indirect...
January 11, 2020 at 16:11
Agreed. On another forum, I've pointed out that this is simply not the way beliefs are formed. I'll share the best rebuttal I received. This depends o...
January 11, 2020 at 15:27
The potential for time would have to have been present in the initial state. That does not follow, but if it's true - those other instances of inflati...
January 11, 2020 at 14:05
Of course we all have a worldview, but we're also fallible and I think we should value truth. You won't get to truth simply by seeking out reinforceme...
January 11, 2020 at 13:58
I disagree. There IS something wrong with that. As individuals, it reinforces confirmation bias.
January 11, 2020 at 06:13
In theory, spacetime CONSISTS of quantum fields. Collectively, these comprise a quantum system. In this context, a quantum fluctuation is not a tempor...
January 10, 2020 at 19:42
Agreed. But a feature of time is not beyond time. Not "beyond", but yes, of course there is no time prior to the state of affairs that is the first ca...
January 10, 2020 at 17:16
That doesn't explain God's existence it just asserts that he's uncaused. Any first cause is uncaused, so this alleged "explanation" is equally applica...
January 10, 2020 at 16:34
There was lots of debate on the JCPOA at the time, and there were smart people on both sides of it. I accept that it wasn't a perfect deal, and perhap...
January 09, 2020 at 20:42
The zero energy universe explains inflation (the big bang) and all that ensued. It does not entail an infinite past. The only thing it does not explai...
January 09, 2020 at 15:39
I'm sure you're right that Trump doesn't want war - he's extremely isolationist. Instead of a "better nuclear deal", we have NO nuclear deal: he pushe...
January 09, 2020 at 15:23
I'm familiar with that. I was referring to the evolution of story of Pilate's sentencing Jesus to death. Over time, blame is increasingly shifted from...
January 09, 2020 at 07:04
Tim - I re-read our earlier exchages and I now see that I misinterpreted your position. Sorry about that, and going off on what was apparently a silly...
January 09, 2020 at 02:58
You're mincing words. I described the various reasons why I believe it's impossible to know how western society would have developed had Christianity ...
January 08, 2020 at 23:41
Jeez! All I said was, " I don't think any Christians today keep kosher. ". When someone says, "I think...", that's a good sign they aren't claiming to...
January 08, 2020 at 23:05
I don't think that at all, and I've raised that point myself in other discussions. But neither do you know how they thought, and your claim depends on...
January 08, 2020 at 22:02
You didn't answer my question. How do you know Jesus said that? FYI, I do not believe there exists an "immortal soul".
January 08, 2020 at 21:21
How do you know Jesus actually said that? I presume it's because "Matthew" attributes those words to Jesus. However it's very possibly an apologetic i...
January 08, 2020 at 20:42
I see no reason to think science wouldn't have advanced had Christianity not gained the big following that it did, but historical what-ifs like this s...
January 08, 2020 at 16:28
That's what the author of Matthew (whoever that may have been) claimed Jesus said, but I don't think any Christians today keep kosher. Even Paul, writ...
January 08, 2020 at 08:09
The "pagan" religion of the Roman empire was based on ritual, not adherence to a world view. There was no ideological barrier to making efforts to und...
January 07, 2020 at 19:53
His "gut feel" has resulted in such things as: - a stalling to real immigration reform. - damaged relations with allies - damaged Ukraine internally a...
January 07, 2020 at 19:45
I'm not sure what you're asking. Society has evolved over time, so that each stage in time is a consequence of its past. Historians examine various in...
January 07, 2020 at 19:11
The Christian line is that Jesus altered Judaism (abolishing the "law", forgiving sins, and demanding faith in him) and welcomed non-Jews into the fol...
January 07, 2020 at 18:59
It didn't evolve "out of Chistianity". Rather, it happens to have primarily evolved within a culture that happened to be predominantly Christian. Chri...
January 07, 2020 at 18:54
That sounds reasonable. In that vein, do you recognize that there's a conceptual distinction between an "actual infinity" and a "potential infinity"?
January 07, 2020 at 18:43
Not at all - I'm not suggesting he's low IQ. Rather, he has the sort of superficial knowledge of the world that pundits possess (like Rush Limbaugh an...
January 07, 2020 at 18:39
Do abstractions exist at all? I suggest they don't. A number line "exists" only as an abstraction, but this is not true existence. It's just a concept...
January 07, 2020 at 18:27
Yes there are: Edward Feser, and his devotees. While Thomistic metaphysics doesn't entail intervention in the world, it doesn't preclude it either. Aq...
January 07, 2020 at 18:10
In effect, you are saying: If Thomism then all sin brings about a greater good Tim and Gnostic Christian Bishop suggest that it is more reasonable to ...
January 07, 2020 at 17:43