This is not true. If you look back at the beginning of this thread, I made a very simple argument based on probability and statistics why the anthropi...
Apropos of nothing: The phrase "The pot calling the kettle black," gets it's meaning from the fact that the pot and the kettle are both black. /upload...
I've underlined my contribution to your list. In what sense does "I believe this is not true," represent outrage? All it means is that I think you're ...
First off, as I've made clear in the past, I am not a theist and don't have any particular religious beliefs. Still, if someone has experienced God di...
I've been pleased, and surprised, by the discussions about religion on the forum recently. Even more so by their quality. There have been many interes...
He was assassinated in 1948. Gandhi and Martin Luther King risked their lives and were killed. They did not intend to die. That was my point. They did...
I think that's not true. People experience God. You may claim that they are experiencing something else, something more mundane. Or you may claim they...
I edited that page in Wikipedia to correct the mistake. It will take some time before the change is moderated and put in. Did you ever read "The Lathe...
No. I have very strong associations with Canada Geese. We hunted when I was a kid and I remember putting decoys out at dawn and sitting for hours, fre...
Anything that affects the people around me will affect me also. I'm sure that's not the answer you are looking for. Perhaps you should clarify your po...
This is a human language problem, not a theological one. Language paradoxes don't limit God's abilities. Again, God is not limited by your limited und...
People who believe in the quantum multiverse or the anthropic principle are like people who think that if you flip a coin four times and get four head...
It's embarrassing to have to hang around with rubes who don't know the difference between a Canada Goose and a Canadian goose. Many Canada Geese are a...
This is baloney. Read some of his papers. They are rigorous and heavily mathematical. Even though he did not do experiments himself, this work has bee...
There are two principles. The weak anthropic principle is as you say - it's a restatement of the obvious, i.e. we live in a universe where conditions ...
According to Wikipedia it's called a Briard. It's also known as a Berger de Brie, which means a ground beef sandwich with soft cheese in French. So, F...
I don't think Gandhi gave his life to be a symbol to his people. I think he risked his life as part of a tactic to gain freedom for his people. There'...
My problem with this is that the question of whether or not evolution is progressive is not a qualitative soft science or metaphysical question. As I ...
I changed the first sentence of my first paragraph to read "If a significant number of qualified people don't think something is self-evident, it's no...
If a significant number of qualified people don't think something is self-evident, it's not self-evident at all. Calling something self-evident requir...
I don't believe evolution is progressive, but that's not what I argued. All I argued is that the position that evolution is progressive is not obvious...
I didn't say there is no reality, I said there is no objective reality. I didn't even say that. I only said there are other ways to look at reality. Y...
Observing something by evidence does not require there to be an objective reality. You keep saying it's self-evident, but it's not. Then you go on to ...
I didn't say there is no reality. I said that there are other valid ways of interacting with reality that do not assume an objective reality. Even tha...
If we are agreed on that, then we agree on the claim this: That's all I claimed. You have not responded to that claim. Many people like to claim that ...
I disagree. I see the existence of objective reality as a metaphysical question, by which I mean it is an underlying assumption, what R.G. Collingwood...
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