T_Clark

I got a bit lost in your discussion. Until I got to this sentence, I thought you were agreeing with me. I disagree with your statement. I don't think ...

I wasn't making a statement about religion. What I wanted to say was about science. Science is supposed to replace religion, but it's underlying presu...

It has always seemed to me that belief in an objective reality requires a belief in God. As you note, there has to be someone who can experience it, s...

Thanks. If you and I agree on something, we must be right.

None of your Indians nearby to go with you?

Seems like it would be something a bit less mundane than just improving education. I wonder if he meant that literature could replace religion to fill...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79mLV9b30c Of course, he was Scottish, not Irish.

I'm glad you're back. I have felt like I needed to get away from the forum from time to time. Problem is, when I take a break, people miss me so much ...

That's quite a stretch for an argument. Also, @"Ciceronianus"'s reference was not to the Christian God, it was to Mithra, a Persian god with many foll...

Maybe the knights used their gauntlets to hit the offending person when they ran the gantlet.

For some reason it made me think of Ren and Stimpy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uynMyztqIiA

Don't apologize. It gives me a chance to show people I'm erudous...erudant...Me talk good.

Literally, that means tank hand shoe, which is similar to my favorite German word fausthandschuh, which, again literally means fist hand shoe. It actu...

No, it's gantlet that has faded. Gauntlet has taken it's place.

I love words. "Echelon" is a really good one. It feels good to say - that "ech" feels a bit German. It sounds important. It's a bit technical so it ma...

Yes....well...ahem.

I believe this is not true. Do you have some references? I never said that there aren't people who believe that evolution is teleological. I only resp...

Just for the record, esculin is "...a glucoside C15H16O9 from the inner bark of the horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastaneum) and roots of the yellow j...

I came to the book skeptical. It seems like a pretty radical proposition. But I was willing to be convinced. His use of the Iliad and Odyssey as evide...

I don't know that his is true. It certainly isn't true for today's philosophers and scientists. Do you have specific information on beliefs over time?...

Or perhaps we should evaluate lucidity based on the Relative Lucidity (RL) where RL is the ratio of Dream Lucidity (DL) to Awake Lucidity (AL). RL= DL...

Good point. I guess if I'm never lucid, I can't possibly be having lucid dreams.

Does having dreams that are as boring as my real life count as lucid dreaming? .

I'll add it to my list. Maybe this will give me the impetus I need to read some more Murakami.

This made me think of something I've come across in a couple of places. The first is from Jaynes' "The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The...

I read "1Q85" and really enjoyed it. Almost a fantasy but not quite. Is it magical realism? It scrambled up my mind. I keep thinking I'll read more of...

To start, it is not my intention to claim that time doesn't exist. It's a concept I use all the time (oops). Still, here are some thoughts: Scientists...

Just about everyone today calls when the sun comes up sunrise and when it goes down sunset, even though we all know the sun is not moving and the eart...

Again, thanks for your input.

You started a really interesting discussion. Thanks.

I really like Hardy, but I've never read that one.

I went to a Methodist church when I was a kid, but I'm not a member of any religion now. I've never paid much attention to Christian church history. T...

I don't know if what you say is true, but it is an interesting way of looking at things.

l hadn't thought of "render unto Caesar" as another way of saying separation of church and state. That makes sense to me.

You're right. The universe has no purpose or intentional agency. The point I was trying to make is that the universe doesn't fit us, we fit the univer...

Evolution also fine-tunes us to fit into this world.

Welcome to the forum. I don't think you have proven any of your four propositions. Let's take a look: This isn't a proof. You've accepted it as a self...

Here are some definitions of the word "reason." The basis or motive for an action, decision, or conviction. A declaration made to explain or justify a...

I think you're probably right in an infinite universe. In a finite universe, there's probably no way to know how many particles and how many volumes t...

I agree. I don't have any money on this table. I'm not a theist, much less a Christian, but I think the way religion in general and Christianity in pa...

I wonder what his means.

Some thoughts. First, what does this have to do with the multiverse? Second, for 100 shooters to be 10 feet away, they would have to be in a circle wi...

It is certainly possible to have a reasonable and civil discussion about the historical accuracy of the Bible, but you generally won't find that here ...

I don't think either the pro-design or the anti-design arguments make any sense. I think the problem with the pro-design argument comes from Premise 2...

I can only judge by what I've seen here on the forum. You sure seem to care.

I agree with @"Noble Dust"'s evaluation:

@"Noble Dust"'s positions aren't unbalanced, weird, or obsessive, but he himself is.

I'm not a theist, but the level of hatred for religion I see here on the forum bothers me. I think it calls into question the forum's claim of support...

I don't see why the fact that others had claimed to be the Messiah is relevant. Also, my post was a response to this from you: I'm not Christian and I...

Heisenberg's original paper on uncertainty was based on the observer effect - any light I aimed at a particle to measure either it's position or speed...