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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...
May 14, 2019 at 14:14
Unsupported assertion. Meet you burden to show a start of time requires B-theory. The first cause is, by definition, uncaused. You know, like God.
May 14, 2019 at 13:41
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...
May 14, 2019 at 00:49
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...
May 13, 2019 at 20:19
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...
May 13, 2019 at 18:20
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...
May 13, 2019 at 17:49
As previously discussed. I use the terminology different than you. Note how I worded my belief: "mindreading is probably physically impossible". My be...
May 13, 2019 at 17:26
The issue is that our evaluations are colored by our background beliefs. Established beliefs are not easily overturned. This is largely because our be...
May 13, 2019 at 16:35
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...
May 13, 2019 at 15:59
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...
May 13, 2019 at 13:43
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...
May 12, 2019 at 23:40
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...
May 12, 2019 at 22:59
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...
May 12, 2019 at 16:40
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...
May 11, 2019 at 21:27
Certain eigenstates (high energy ones) are inherently unstable. Ordinary causation (in the macro world in which we live) entails a transfer of energy,...
May 11, 2019 at 19:25
An initial state (such as the one described in the Carroll hypothesis) "causes" everything that follows. What's missing in that scenario? False dichot...
May 11, 2019 at 18:51
- I wish you had actually gone over the detailed ground I laid, but so be it. I've responded to the other thread.
May 11, 2019 at 18:48
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...
May 11, 2019 at 18:02
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...
May 11, 2019 at 17:51
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...
May 11, 2019 at 17:26
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...
May 11, 2019 at 17:21
Irrelevant, because this just affects the prior probability of God. "Fine Tuning" considerations do not increase that probability. If the prior probab...
May 11, 2019 at 16:35
That's an antiquated understanding. What is conserved is mass-energy: energy and mass are interchangeable. According to Quantum Field Theory (QFT), th...
May 11, 2019 at 16:13
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...
May 11, 2019 at 06:17
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 ...
May 11, 2019 at 04:46
You have identified some valid problems with universal suffrage in a democracy, but that's easy. What alternative do you propose? Identify the "right"...
May 11, 2019 at 02:21
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 ...
May 10, 2019 at 22:41
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 ...
May 10, 2019 at 22:27
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; ...
May 10, 2019 at 21:28
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...
May 10, 2019 at 20:54
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 ...
May 10, 2019 at 19:21
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...
May 10, 2019 at 00:50
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...
May 09, 2019 at 21:41
By "politically imposed" I infer that you're referring to "political correctness." i.e. in our current society, it is deemed politically incorrect to ...
May 09, 2019 at 21:28
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...
May 09, 2019 at 21:10
God's existence wouldn't make life "objectively significant" because significance is always subjective. I could agree that being significant to God is...
May 09, 2019 at 18:36
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 ...
May 09, 2019 at 17:15
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...
May 09, 2019 at 17:02
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 ...
May 09, 2019 at 16:38
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...
May 09, 2019 at 16:20
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 ...
May 09, 2019 at 14:59
Agreed
May 09, 2019 at 14:22
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...
May 09, 2019 at 05:39
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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...
May 09, 2019 at 02:34
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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 ...
May 09, 2019 at 02:05
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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...
May 09, 2019 at 01:14
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 ...
May 09, 2019 at 01:00
I looked it up: "Under past administrations, some border-crossers were occasionally prosecuted, and were thus separated from their families. Children ...
May 09, 2019 at 00:01
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...
May 08, 2019 at 19:33
I'll get back to you later.
May 08, 2019 at 14:27