RegularGuy

Perhaps you are not familiar with philosophers’ objections to calling String Theory and M Theory “science” in that they are not even conceivably testa...

I’ve always argued that certain things are a matter of faith. I’m just showing that most if not all of us have faith in something.

Then say “why” you are unconvinced that it is sound. Then Rank Amateur, AJJ, and you can have something consequential to argue about.

My point was that so-called “scientific” hypotheses about the origin of the universe or what caused the Big Bang are untestable, unverifiable conjectu...

If the argument is that the attributes given to God cannot be concluded from the premises, then I will agree to that. I used that objection when I was...

I don’t watch videos on philosophy forums. Lay out the argument in the video, and then I will respond.

Then you have to show where the Kalam Cosmological Argument is unsound. Philosophy dictates that you can’t just declare it so.

It could be rational to hold a belief that guides your actions, making you a better, happier person. This was William James’ definition of the rationa...

Beliefs can be consistent but not coherent. That doesn’t make them false. However, the belief that the universe started by a quantum fluctuation that ...

I believe you called me your “sworn enemy”. Lol

At least Rank Amateur has the balls to say what he believes. His belief isn’t in conflict with known facts. You won’t even make a metaphysical claim f...

There are many different scientific metaphysics that attribute some kind of cause or other to the universe. These are also not falsifiable.

I just meant that God’s consciousness is unfalsifiable in that there are no experiments we could do to detect Her.

Well, I believe consciousness is akin to an energy without mass in that it causes things to happen, like quarks coming into existence.

Spirit is like pure energy maybe. Consciousness is like Spirit in that it is eternal, but I take “infinite” to refer to the material, the quantifiable...

I don’t equate eternal with infinite.

I mean the theater where logic and experience play out, I think.

Spirit can be finite and changing.

What is consciousness in your view?

I never ascribed the values of infinite and changeless to God.

What am I ascribing as infinite and changeless?

I disagree that consciousness requires materiality.

No one has shown that consciousness isn’t causally efficacious. In fact, there is evidence that it indeed is.

And you’re still a coward.

Obviously, you either never took a course on the theory of knowledge or you failed to comprehend it.

And I don’t mean a material God.

How is what you’re saying showing that my metaphysics is contradictory? By “falsifiable” I certainly mean by people or beings within our universe.

How could we possibly falsify it if is outside the observable universe? With what experiments?

Idealism can work with materialism. Both are necessary conditions of the universe with my metaphysics.

A conscious Being that caused the universe would be outside the universe and thus, unfalsifiable.

I agree. I wasn’t saying anything else.

My beliefs don’t contradict science. That’s all I meant by “consistent”.

Consciousness is not an empirical claim.

Imagine personal oblivion after death. Now imagine universal oblivion. In both cases there is nothing.

It’s a logically consistent metaphysics.

The OP says that science is inherently atheistic. I’m showing that religion or spirituality can be logically consistent with science. Atheism is faith...

It’s metaphysics. No one’s metaphysics is falsifiable unless it is contradictory.

No. Nothing and something would be the same without consciousness. It is consciousness that gives the universe form.

And furthermore, what harm am I causing you in this belief? It’s certainly a possible explanation that is not contradicted by any known facts. So what...

Because the universe is devoid of meaning without consciousness. I believe the universe was caused by a consciousness, and there was meaning to it bef...

And you’re still being a coward.

It sure can be reasonably said. How is something differentiated from nothing without consciousness?

It could be said to be nothing in that case.

How do you make sense of a universe devoid of consciousness?

I take consciousness to be a necessary ingredient of the universe, as the universe would not have form without it. It is consciousness that gives real...

No, but I’m sure they all have their beliefs.

You’re being evasive like a coward. Even Stephen Hawking believed in something that caused the Big Bang. You certainly aren’t well-read enough to know...

How doesn’t it follow? How did it begin then?

Yeah, liberal virtues. Not your asshole virtues. I don’t have a problem putting an asshole in his place.

So, you believe our universe always existed? That’s dumb as it goes against scientific consensus.