Gary Enfield

In short - no I don't find it convincing. It may be that I missed some point in your very complex post, but the gist seems to again be playing to some...

Pop / Adughep I am still unclear about what you are saying. Perhaps you are trying to say that information is a distinct thing in its own right and th...

Tim / Aryamoy Mitra I gave my understanding with several examples which did include evidence and rationale. You may not like them, but unless you can ...

Hi Both the video which Tim provided is, I think, flawed, because it mixes concepts and ignores the basics. Firstly, the guy talks about space expandi...

Pop - I got it from the BBC headlines. Pop & Adughep Looking over your recent posts there was a strong emphasis on the nature of consciousness and the...

Counterpunch - I see that you are resorting to a 2019 clip by a disgruntled scientist whose only comment is that he believes that CERN is looking in t...

To answer your actual question in the OP.... No, equations to not tend to prove anything. Equations merely try to describe what is observed. They may ...

The announcement today from CERN about the discovery of a new, previously undetected, force in nature, exerting a mysterious influence of unknown orig...

The announcement today from CERN about the discovery of a new, previously undetected, force in nature, exerting a mysterious influence of unknown orig...

Apologies to all for not being part of the debate recently. For some reason my system did not update for your messages over several days and I had ass...

Hi Josh S Thanks for the quote - it must have taken a while to copy out. I haven't seen it before, but I think Goodman is mixing concepts with no sens...

Hi Pop and Adughep Just because Sutherland says it, doesn't make it true. People have been trying since the 1950s and Stanley Miller's first experimen...

Hi Enrique No matter what TClark tries to imply - no mechanism even vaguely exists within these explanations. It is just wishful thinking that somethi...

Tom I find myself agreeing with your point about terminology, but my gut instinct is that materialists won't accept any evidence that apparently contr...

Hi Tom Storm I think that part of the problem here is how you define 'spiritual'. I find that most materialist label things as spiritual when examples...

Hi Present Awareness I think there is potentially a good debate here, because various famous names including Steven Hawking, have offered the 'splitti...

Hi JoshS I'm sorry but I think that is just plain wrong. If you have an experiment that (say) mixes two chemicals under certain precise conditions, an...

Hi Adughep I think that your post deviated from the initial theme of water quite a bit, and you diverted onto.... .... by which I think you meant cons...

Hi Pop I didn't say that - indeed I think that in various posts I said quite the opposite. I said that evolution was only possible when the mechanism ...

Hi JoshS When an experiment produces results, those results become a fact that has to be explained. Other than discovering error or fraud in the repor...

Hi Enrique Thanks for responding so quickly. I'm glad that my other activities are not so intense at this moment - allowing me to respond quickly myse...

Hi Enrique Thank you for your long and considered reply. Your description is, of course, quite close to the hopes of many scientists researching Abiog...

For those that lived through the misrepresentations of the materialist community 30 years ago, a 'smattering' was used by them to mean that we just ne...

No - and any rational person would also know that my comments did not say or mean that. It is perfectly valid to acknowledge that we have not yet reac...

What on earth does that mean? DNA is a static template for a design. It has no logic and just leads to the manufacture of new cellular components usin...

Oliver, I find it bizarre that you still don't see the issues. The chemistry described says how some chemical bonds can be reformed, but is says nothi...

Oliver - RNA hypothesis works on the concept that if RNA is the intermediate code between DNA and Proteins, it is likely to come first, and that DNA (...

T Clark I have looked back at your single post to me at the start of this debate, and you basically said that you agreed with the point that the evolu...

Hi Pop Are we talking at cross-purposes here? I have always said that I believe in Evolution once the mechanism got going, (and as stated in the OP - ...

How was my comment confused? Oliver I have given the same example time and time again - the DNA repair mechanisms - particularly Homologous Recombinat...

Hi Wayfarer It's nice to have a brief non-aggressive conversation about origins ! The original counter to Materialism was Idealism which offered examp...

Hi OliverS My comments are perfectly clear and consistent if you read the second part of the statement I made, rather than just quote the first part i...

Hi Isaac It has been shown many times through the action of (say) the enzymes which repair DNA. The same enzymes do different things in response to di...

Hi Tom Storm As I understood it, you were trying to argue that no form of living response based on awareness and analysis could be undertaken without ...

Hi Isaac The whole purpose of a materialist/chemical process is to show that the Laws of Physics and Chemistry apply when explaining a situation. If m...

Hi Wayfarer I agree - monism is very different to Dualism. For the benefit of others, we can also say that there are also very different forms of moni...

Hi Adughep I agree that water does have special properties in relation to the development of life and as NASA will tell you, the search for water is t...

Hi Oliver 5 Nothing which the chemistry describes in chemical terms breaks the laws of physics and chemistry -but those descriptions don't explain how...

Hi Amity / T Clark I had hardly abandoned the discussion when the original post had been just 5 days earlier! I don’t mind people pursuing their inter...

and all other contributors I have watched with interest and awe at the passionate exchanges which you have conducted on theoretical and principled gro...

Yes - but physicists certainly do! I try to boil things down to basics, so we might understand them. Time is essentially the consequence of movement w...

Hi Enrique It may be better to continue this chat on a different thread as it seems to be at odds with the original topic. However, let me just say th...

Gregory I don't think it is helpful to designate valid queries about the limits of Darwin's theories as being religious creationism. Valid questions a...

I am again surprised by some of the misconceptions in this debate. Humanity has only identified one mechanism for Evolution in the entire universe - t...

Hi Photios I agree, because there are very few real life circumstances where infinities might occur. It may be possible for Finite things to exist wit...

Hi PaulS Here is the link to the other debate https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/10091/do-probabilities-avoid-both-cause-and-explanation The ab...

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Hi PaulS That's true, but equally those who only believe in the finite must provide a reason why a line like this would have to stop.... and they don'...

Hi PaulS I am surprised by your examples as they do not really seem to test the idea of infinity. The fact that a mathematical equation can be fed int...

I am surprised at how much of the dialogue on this topic has missed some of the basic points about the relationship between philosophy and science. Th...