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I know what you believe, what I am asking for is evidence. It's actually very simple. Just give me an observation dating 100 million years ago under t...
September 20, 2017 at 00:33
I never use logic, because I don't like playing that game. Thus, I have no idea where you got this. You stated that something called laws (I presume y...
September 20, 2017 at 00:05
I'm very clear. Thank you for sharing your opinion.
September 19, 2017 at 23:55
As I've explained to others, I am not here to play games or share science fiction stories. Science can't b even predict the course of a quanta let alo...
September 19, 2017 at 23:53
Everything you stated is an observation of yours or the restatement of someone else's observation. Now, if you find an some observation made 100 milli...
September 19, 2017 at 23:42
As I said you are blessed with an extraordinary imagination. You have provided zero evidence (not surprising) but loads of opinions which I already th...
September 19, 2017 at 22:27
OK. Thanks. I think we are done with your academic parlor game. Save it for someone who can truly appreciate it.
September 19, 2017 at 22:09
Really? Well, I guess one believes what one wishes to believe. I don't recall any written observations from 100 million years ago to compare with. Can...
September 19, 2017 at 21:51
We have no evidence of this one way or another. What we do know is that our observations and understanding of nature are in constant flux. No evidence...
September 19, 2017 at 21:03
Suit yourself. As I said I'm not here to play parlor games.
September 19, 2017 at 20:02
They all (Life) give you Life and be grateful. Life gives life. Remember that the next time you have a choice between a computer and a tree. I sometim...
September 19, 2017 at 19:04
The only way to effect change is upon ourselves.
September 19, 2017 at 18:36
And where does this belief originate from. There are 10 times the number of microbes in the human body than there are human cells, all living in harmo...
September 19, 2017 at 18:35
Probabilistic is not determined. That is why we used different words. There is zero support for determinism. You and the OP late looking for some hidd...
September 19, 2017 at 18:19
It is one thing to say that we must view life as life and treat it all with appreciation, acknowledging that life requires life to subsist. Different ...
September 19, 2017 at 16:06
I agree, but the indoctrination begins very early in school where children and parents are too scared to challenge what is being promoted. The Grade i...
September 19, 2017 at 15:59
No, that is not how I feel it. For me it is a feeling of caring, sharing, and wishing to be with as we journey through life together. Actual emotions ...
September 19, 2017 at 14:46
Humans create networks, networks don't create humans. The ability to create, explore, and learn from creating (evolve) is the essential nature if life...
September 19, 2017 at 13:47
There is always some magic hidden in any materialistic research explanation of life. There has to be, because there is nothing there. In one breathtak...
September 19, 2017 at 13:20
In the disgusting OP. I'm beginning to think you might agree with it. Do you?
September 18, 2017 at 21:45
What yarn spinners fail to realize and are surprised at is that laypeople find it really funny that chemists fall in love with chemicals and make them...
September 18, 2017 at 21:40
Molecular machinary. Computers. Robots. Chemical reactions. Hard-wired. Hardware. Software. It's all over all the threads concerning life, mind, AI et...
September 18, 2017 at 21:13
Automation are tools. It is the people who peach that humans are not humans, the exact same propaganda used to justify slavery and genocide, that work...
September 18, 2017 at 20:36
Love is a bond between two. To love every one and everything is probably not plausible in a universe of opposites. I love some and I dislike others an...
September 18, 2017 at 17:57
I'm responding to the OP's primary idea. Yes, there are times when we love but then it goes, but other types of love just v survives no matter what. I...
September 18, 2017 at 17:18
It exists, it is just rare. Such feelings might be felt between parents and children, between siblings, between partners, and surely other situations....
September 18, 2017 at 17:02
Yes, it's not all that much fun when you are on the wrong side of the molecular machinery. The Nazis exterminated tens of millions of people of all et...
September 18, 2017 at 16:48
Not everyone sleeps so easily. Some are c so dehumanized they become simple fodder for the disgusting machinations of other human beings. The whole ba...
September 18, 2017 at 16:35
Life needs life to exist. It needs vegetables, fruit, etc. to continue to survive. Without it, it perishes. Try surviving on a bottle of chemicals. Li...
September 18, 2017 at 16:00
Without getting into the nature of time, there is nothing in Relatively, either Special or General that supports determinism. If it did, it would cont...
September 18, 2017 at 15:53
Let's quote the whole disgusting post and POV from the beginning including the part that I quoted. Dehumanization has been around as long as slavery h...
September 18, 2017 at 15:42
It was the Nazi point of view. It's perfectly fine as long as you are in pulverizing side and not the one being pulverized. I think the Nazis killed o...
September 18, 2017 at 15:18
This is very informative and should not be ignored. The OP is willing to do anything without regard to the consequences to human life or a human life....
September 18, 2017 at 13:57
It is very easy for science to explain everything on paper. It simply injects human capabilities and qualities into chemicals and removes all mention ...
September 18, 2017 at 13:41
Molecular machinery, created out of thin air by some story teller. Science knows how to spin a good yarn. They get lots of practice from fundraising i...
September 18, 2017 at 12:29
Double talking is all about using big words and talking fast in such a way that people can't trap the misdirection. Information is Mind. Only in your ...
September 18, 2017 at 12:24
Anything is better than milking chemicals. Do they do it on a stool? One doesn't have to have any background in science to read any of these books. Al...
September 18, 2017 at 12:18
Ah! A change of story. Chemicals have morphed into an informational mechanism that milks. Isn't a mind required to create information and for milking?...
September 18, 2017 at 12:17
It's simple. The chemicals get together and become "dedicated". After that It All Just Happens Naturally. The question is exactly how fantastic a stor...
September 18, 2017 at 12:10
Yes. Every double talker always tries to misdirect. Let me give you a different story. You see you have a group of chemicals and they all got together...
September 18, 2017 at 12:02
So you just have this mix of chemicals that all of a sudden is "dedicated to maintaining a metabolism". What's more it is "kicking out stuff"" and "us...
September 18, 2017 at 11:54
Of course. People have been making up stories from the dawn of time. Most stories have Maker, since intelligence, involved in the creation of everythi...
September 18, 2017 at 11:46
More double talk. Just tell the world how, without any Mind, it all started? We've got the Big Bang which just happened. Now what?
September 18, 2017 at 03:41
Fine, then give some evidence for determinism. Do so without being in conflict with quantum physics.
September 18, 2017 at 03:34
Truly laughable. Don't tell me you are going to call upon God? Or maybe the Mythical Laws of Nature that guide everything. No, let me see. There was a...
September 18, 2017 at 03:21
The standard determinism story (and all if it is just a story) is that if everything is known coupled with the mythical Laws of Nature then everything...
September 18, 2017 at 02:57
Try your story on elementary grade students who have no choice but to swallow it. There is not one shred of evidence supporting the It Just Happened T...
September 18, 2017 at 02:45
Yes, materialists are acting on faith in the Miracle of the Spontaneous Everything. It's a beautiful model. When compared to Greek Mythology and Bibli...
September 18, 2017 at 02:39
Fine. Science offers no concrete model and materialists are acting upon faith. I'm good with that.
September 18, 2017 at 02:10
Nice. So the Theory of Spontaneous Everything is a matter of faith and science just wants everyone to buy into it hoping that big words will cover up ...
September 18, 2017 at 01:58