Being able to stay calm in situations that most people do not, doesn't mean anything other than they can stay calm in situations where most people do ...
There's not a whole lot to argue about in terms of sensory perception. Our brain only receives electrical signals. The occipital lobe builds the visua...
In the beginning there was simply a self-replicating process. There is not a whole lot to say about the details, because we still do not know how abio...
I didn't get what the article was trying to argue for or against. Perception seems pretty straight forward to me. The visual field is a great example....
That's how I see it. Things we measure are properties. Energy is a property. Width, depth, and height are spatial properties. They don't exist on thei...
"In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object" This is th...
It's not entirely easy to define what science is. To be a scientific theory, it's said you need 3 things: predictive power, falsifiability (i.e. can b...
Sure. You can say God created evolution (i.e. theistic evolution). You could also say that God helps evolution along (i.e. guided evolution). But thes...
That's true. I typically think about the Copenhagen interpretation. But some prefer the Many-Worlds interpretation, I think they tend to be programmer...
There is definitely more to consider when thinking of the implications of how we see and deal with people. There is definitely that. As far as we know...
People define free-will in different ways. And so they argue about different things. But it really goes back to the concept of "you". You like others,...
It's interesting how his personality seems to change over time. He was a being that killed first born sons and flooded the world. Now he's helping peo...
There really isn't a concept of materialism in science. It's more of what you can observe and replicate, to ensure only quality objective data gets ad...
I am fine with your preferred definition. A long time ago I tried to think of terminology that would capture more of the beliefs on this matter. Gnost...
True. I've watched, read and participated in a lot of these debates. There is definitely a pattern, but it often gets the gears in my head moving. I w...
You mean why does it have survival value if you cannot dodge coconuts with it. It has value in other ways, such as war and farming. I already told you...
Wonderment is something you experience. I consider thoughts, emotions, and perceptions experiences. I don't know how they're generated. Can you just s...
You don't, because you cannot use math to dodge an already falling coconut. Now, if you want to make good use of a catapult in a war, then you'd be on...
Because legs a versatile and space is 3-dimensional. You can step back, lunge forward, or dodge to the side. What explanation are you looking for? No ...
There is no need too, it doesn't contract natural selection, sexual selection, gene flow, genetic drift, mutation or epigenetics. This has already suf...
Your ego is making a fool out of you. If you actually want to understand the theory of evolution, then you need to spend a lot more time reading about...
StarsFromMemory already gave you some insight on this matter, but you refuse to learn new information that contradicts this poorly thought out argumen...
It's a term I identified more with when I was younger. I like to think of myself as an explorer. But I do consider myself an atheist in terms of not b...
When talking about a god as a creator of the universe, it's very far removed from us and there just really isn't much information to go by. But when p...
When it comes to contingent truths, I accept claims that can be falsified but are supported by evidence. For example, if I was working on a murder cas...
Inserting an intelligent agent as a creator doesn't solve anything. Peoples idea of evidence for ID is the God of the Gaps. It's mostly perpetuated by...
It would be (b) then. It makes more sense to me to just say unfalsifiable since it cannot be demonstrated whether or not a creator of some sort lurks ...
I think it's possible that somewhere down the line, say The Big Bang or further back, there could be a creator of some kind. I have no reason to belie...
"I care when someone tells me (and insists, that I AM AN ATHEIST...simply because of a definition which came into being because of an error...and with...
When you say "unverifiable", how are you differentiating it from "unfalsifiable"? When I say unfalsifiable, I mean that it's currently not testable. T...
It means that a creator is not falsifiable, which is why The God of the Gaps tactic is used so often. For instance, when Newton came up with gravity, ...
It's linguistic evolution. How words are pronounced, spelled, and defined change over time. It's why we speak so many different languages. Words do no...
I would say: We exist in some capacity Our experiences exist Things that aren't our personal experiences exist (e.g. whatever produces your experience...
If you define intelligence as your "capacity to acquire and utilize knowledge", then you would know very little inside an empty universe. You need to ...
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