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Wishes and hopes. Great response. Why do we hope, is there survival value to Faith, Hope and Love?

If what you mean to do is to argue that the theory of evolution is wrong because it doesn't offer a compelling account of all phenomena, your problem ...

Great...to me, " I don't know" sounds much more reasonable or even 'logical'. But once again, existential questions can rear their ugly heads hence: I...

If you don't mind me wondering too...I was always curious about sexual selection as it were. I mean, with human's, it's not just pure instinct... .

Still in one of the camps whose 'God' can't be shown, regardless of their claims. Are you sure? What is leap of Faith?

Okay Gotcha. Then is this statement true: 1. God does not exist. True or false? (I'm just asking don't get angry.)

Hey Poetic, yeah, that's one of many reasons why I'm a Christian Existentialist.

Atheism is the belief that no gods exist, not the belief that no mysteries exist, that would be amysterism. We agree! It does seem logical that myster...

Why are people of color in the US on average poorer and less educated than white people? Something must be wrong with them, or they must be doing some...

Thats why “brainwashing” seems like such an accurate word when describing how people come to religion. Trained from childhood to accept utterly vacant...

I hear you Alcontali. And I also respect your learn-ed mind. I've read many of your posts. Did you have any thoughts on the 7 existential phenomena ( ...

And I'll do you one back; have you read The Mind of God by Physicist Paul Davies?

Thank you kindly for name-dropping that book. I took a quick look-see an am very intrigued...

No im not suggesting that at all...so do you “get that” after all? I'm not following you. Are you saying that Atheism is untenable in some way?

Oh sorry, I thought you were going to do the demonstrating. I’ll pass LOL, that's what I thought; one down more to go! Let me know when you got it fig...

By the way, atheism has zero connection to evolutionary theory. Okay. then how do you explain why we have that ability? I mean really, these are simpl...

Thats why “brainwashing” seems like such an accurate word when describing how people come to religion. Trained from childhood to accept utterly vacant...

"I, for one, would love to see your demonstration. When will that occur? " Sure, let's examine number 4. Sense of purpose/Love. Please Tell me what Lo...

Why are you people in the minority?

I'm confused. So are you saying the ability of mathematical computation is by chance? Explain that in greater detail if you could.

Thank you kindly for the reply. I'm going to go ahead and start another thread. I have too many questions to derail the discussion here. If you care t...

I love your personal quote: "I like the Buddhist point of view, which (simplified) says that 'harm' or 'suffering' is a product of unfulfilled desire....

There's no purpose to anything in evolution. We agree! But again can you please answer the questions? Or at least answer this simple question if you c...

Great I think we're making progress. So if we agree that's the correct definition of evolution. How do we make a leap to purpose? For example, and the...

There is no purpose to evolution "In biology, evolution is the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and relies on the p...

. But I'm not saying something about those particular traits yet. I'm saying something about evolution in general first, without talking about particu...

I'm saying something general about evolution. Not something about any particular trait. I'm asking you about these particular traits : Love and math. ...

first, about this idea re evolution, do you understand that I'm not talking about any specific trait? Well I'm not sure I'm guessing that you mean any...

I explained this already--how something can exist even though it's neutral or even disadvantageous for survival (not that I'm claiming this about anyt...

Is there a requirement that something is necessary for survival in order for it to persist?" Based on your explanation apparently not. Which in turn b...

I have no idea what you are referring to, can you restate your questions? I'll be happy to try to answer them! I thought you were the Atheist who know...

Yeah, that won't fly. You need to answer the question I asked. I want to know what Love is, and you can't seem to simply answer the question. Maybe I'...

So to check if you're paying attention, is there a requirement that something is necessary for survival in order for it to persist? I'm not playing ga...

It's a term for a wide range of mental (brain) states, states that involve affection, caring, devotion, etc. Ok, so loosely speaking, it's part phenom...

Sigh. No. I said that "Love" isn't a proposition, and "Love is true" is nonsense, because that analyzes to saying that "Love" is a proposition that we...

No, that's not what I said. Ok, you said you needed more 'criteria' So in turn, I suggested that love is either a subjective or objective truth. You s...

I already addressed this. What did I say? I think you said you needed more information. I gave it too you, no?

"Everyone blow really hard and maybe we'll change the Earth's orbit just enough"? Would that be considered a miracle lol?

You are an atheist philosopher, here's the criteria: 1. Love is an objective truth 2. Love is a subjective truth Which statement is true? It's real si...

If we're talking about something like a large asteroid headed towards the Earth, we'd need the assistance of mathematics. Not true. We would look at t...

Logic has nothing at all to do with explaining natural phenomena. Great we agree. The next question is, what does explain natural phenomena?

Similaly: 1. We don't need abstract computations to avoid falling objects 2. We only need spacial perception to do so. Are those true?

It would need to be a set of statements re requirements and some justification for those requirements" Ok, help me out with my logic: 1. Love is an ob...

Ignoring the "explain" issue (which is similar to what I just asked you re "why" above), the reason that all of a sudden we're asking about love being...

So what sort of thing are you looking for? You'd need to be clear about that. Why we have that dual capacity to avoid falling objects?

It refers to the fact that it's a brain-functioning-as-mind phenomenon. Ok, so how then is the love phenomena explained using formal propositional log...

Mathematics is based on observing relations in the world, and then extrapolating more complex relations, based on the way we think about relations, in...

The phenomena are subjective" If love is subjective, why then do all human's aspire to it (with minor exceptions)? And if all humans aspire to it, wou...

You're conflating a general comment about evolution and advantage, where I was clearing up a misconception with a specific comment about consciousness...

"Actually, wait, "Love is a subjective truth" isn't true in my view." What is love then, an objective phenomena ( of sorts ) that most all humans aspi...