It is logically impossible for there to be a moment of time prior to the first moment of time. Unsupported assertion. I gave a scenario that is intern...
Devans99 - To keep the posts from becoming too long and unwieldy, l'm going to focus on one key issue. I want to be sure we understand what each other...
On the contrary, I refuted it. You had said: Aquinas's Argument From Necessary Being supports this view: - Can’t get something from nothing - So somet...
Then why bring it up at all? As to what my problem is: I don't like getting trolled. To avoid a discussion on the semantics of "troll", read this: Int...
Sorry if I misinterpreted, but bear in mind that the only response you gave to my original post was a tangential comment about my terminology, and you...
As previously discussed. I use the terminology different than you. Note how I worded my belief: "mindreading is probably physically impossible". My be...
The issue is that our evaluations are colored by our background beliefs. Established beliefs are not easily overturned. This is largely because our be...
It's impossible to exist "before" time: "before" is a temporal relation. An initial state is not "something from nothing". A physical foundation of re...
By "our" genetics, I assume you're referring to altering the genes that are in a zygote. If the full result of changes could be known, then probably n...
Yeah, it's complicated. My main thing is that Presidents get credit and blame for the economy, despite the fact that they rarely have any direct, shor...
No, the qualification doesn't belong there. The idea is that when there's demand for labor, workers are enticed to move to better paying jobs. I imagi...
Unstable does not imply "is changing", it implies that it necessarily WILL change. We're assuming time is past-finite, so there cannot have been a tem...
Carroll does not say entropy causes time, but that time, entropy, and change are related in some fundamental way. Causality is nothing more than the d...
Certain eigenstates (high energy ones) are inherently unstable. Ordinary causation (in the macro world in which we live) entails a transfer of energy,...
An initial state (such as the one described in the Carroll hypothesis) "causes" everything that follows. What's missing in that scenario? False dichot...
That does not follow. There merely needs to be an initial point of time. Refer back to my description of Sean Carroll's hypothesis from the other thre...
Quantum fields are the fundamental basis of all that exists, and the assumption is that these simply exist by brute fact. In the ground state, time is...
Presumably it is a product of biological evolution. Should we ask why marsupials have pouches for their young, or why anteaters have long skinny tongu...
No, I realize there is no nation-saving solution. I primarily wanted to shift your attention from the need for voters who are better informed to the n...
Irrelevant, because this just affects the prior probability of God. "Fine Tuning" considerations do not increase that probability. If the prior probab...
That's an antiquated understanding. What is conserved is mass-energy: energy and mass are interchangeable. According to Quantum Field Theory (QFT), th...
That is true only if there is a God. This implication of God existing doesn't make it any more likely that God exists. "Life is an unintended conseque...
OK you don't know what to do - so let's get realistic. IMO the fact that most are not informed is not the biggest problem. The bigger problem is that ...
You have identified some valid problems with universal suffrage in a democracy, but that's easy. What alternative do you propose? Identify the "right"...
You overlook one possibility: that there is an initial state. A few years ago, Sean Carroll hypothesized that there is a ground state of the "quantum ...
The unemployment rate is down, so there is an aggregate benefit. Perhaps some of the people who had been unemployed would vote for him. There is also ...
Sure, but the mere fact that he won is not such a reason. There's something unique about every possible winner, so merely being unique is irrelevant; ...
Indeed there is, just as there's a distinct chance the lottery was rigged for the specific characteristics of the winner. But the mere fact that someo...
I see you've ignored my proof, and are just repeating the same erroneous claims. That is a loaded question: it assumes there is a reason. The neutral ...
I wouldn't relate it to "class" (whatever that even means). It just seems to be the received world-view of a lot of people. When I was young, I rememb...
For purposes of this discussion at least, what is relevant is whether or not there is a God that wants to create life. Label the converse of that to b...
By "politically imposed" I infer that you're referring to "political correctness." i.e. in our current society, it is deemed politically incorrect to ...
You've been discussing probability informally and drawing a false conclusion because your getting lost in the non-rigorous analysis. Let's clean it up...
God's existence wouldn't make life "objectively significant" because significance is always subjective. I could agree that being significant to God is...
Probably, but I'm baffled as to how his supporters could consider this a credible charge. Worst case the Dems did something similar to Trump: engaged ...
Saying "it is only natural" does not constitute objective evidence. Consider that in a fair lottery, some random person will win - and yet (per your a...
Trump just repeated his assertion that "there was a crime on the other side" - referring to the Democrats and or Clinton. Someone please explain what ...
That's correct, but my point is that the mere fact that the dwarf won does not serve as evidence that the organiser wanted the dwarf to win. It's POSS...
It is a certainty that an undesigned universe whose parameters are a product of chance would have some unique characterisitcs. If the universe is not ...
There you go gain, treating the "universe lottery" as a lottery "for life supporting attributes" - i.e.treating life as a design objective. The starti...
Under this paradigm, the parts that are actually me (which is transient), are just hitching a ride on something that is eternal - so even if this were...
Starting with that, if my memories are not being reimplanted into a reborn body, then (in my estimation) it's not me. For that matter, if my identity ...
I don't see how you can escape the essence issue if we are to regard this as an individual person (such as ME) being re-born. Whatever it is that is r...
Genetic fallacy to reject a claim because of a prejudice you (and Trump) have against them. Show that it's false (good luck with that). Regarding the ...
I looked it up: "Under past administrations, some border-crossers were occasionally prosecuted, and were thus separated from their families. Children ...
Sure, it's a huge possibility space, but you incorrectly treating "we" as participants. Let's be explicit about this universe lottery: Where ci = a se...
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