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Some mention might also be made of dark energy.

Yeah but after 250 odd pages of pretty ignorant polemics, the humour tended to wear off.

That's not how I feel about it. When I was around school-leaving age, it was the 1960's, Woodstock generation, counter-culture, Beatles discovering Ma...

It's not that hard to follow; its the 'baby thrown out with the bathwater'. I think that’s a pretty good attitude - I feel the same way. I’m reading a...

It that so? What does ‘realised’ mean, in this context? It means ‘made real’ or ‘brought into reality’. But pain has never been ‘realised’ in that sen...

Must be remembered that evolutionary theory is a biological theory, not actually an epistemology or philosophy. Or, put another way, if knowledge is d...

I remember when Jerry Yang was literally curating Yahoo! by hand. And then Alta Vista came along....someone I knew got the job of 'Country Manager for...

Wish you hadn't told me that, it's going to ruin my weekend.

yeah I was never an affecianado of usenet. I got into computers in 1989 courtesy of falling into a job selling Macintosh on a campus. (It was the most...

wasn't usenet a thing back then? purely text-based discussion threads?

The first forum I joined was the then Richard Dawkins forum. This was after I read Terry Eagleton's review of The God Delusion although I didn't encou...

I did one of the 10-day Vipassana courses some time back. Rule no 1: no conversation. For very small windows of opporunity, you were allowed to talk t...

Sorry about that, Malcolm. //I will add, I was trying to be courteous in response to your posts, but I don't feel as though you understood my objectio...

Much was incorporated from Plato, neo-Platonism and the philosophy of late antiquity. Platonism gave Christian doctrine a philosophical framework espe...

:yikes: Of all people. But here I agree with you. I have often walked away from/stormed off/promised myself not to post on the philosophy forum. But i...

Also see Graham Priest on Nagarjuna (Aeon Magazine).

Sure, but expressed in syllogistic form, it is pretty scholastic. Agree that underlying insight is vital. You know about Pyrrho and India, right?

Oh, I don't know. The secular inteliigentsia have been wishing religion dead since the 17th Century but it shows no sign of happening. Sure it's dead ...

It was never put in those dry scholastic terms in the early Buddhist texts. Here is the origin of this whole thing: note how simple it is. https://www...

Which is working towards a philosophical point - Christianity appropriated a good deal of what was critically important in ancient philosophies - Aris...

Well, my view is that nearly everyone, even today, regards 'God' as a being like Jupiter.(Jupiter is an Indo-European name drawn from Dyaus (sky) Pita...

Who was Jesus - in anthropological terms? Was he really a one-off, or was an example of a type? Christians insist the former - that when Jesus said ‘I...

This being a philosophy forum, the argument I would like to pursue for that is philosophical rather than Christian apologetics, or anything of the kin...

I've noticed you presume that, but I find your non-acceptance of them no more convincing than, and quite probably just as dogmatic as, those of whom y...

Religious morality is not based on objective facts, but on revealed truths, in some cases, or transcendent knowledge in others. In the Middle-eastern ...

No argument there. The only argument I have is with the science that says there are no levels.

No, it’s not like saying that. That is a false analogy.

But, chemistry alone doesn’t account for the emergence of the level of complexity you see in the most simple living things. And I’m not going ID. Have...

I think a lot of people assume that DNA evolved - but how could natural selection apply before inheritance, and how could inheritance exist before som...

Makes perfect sense to me. There are many types of artifacts that you can make from various materials - the form can be separated from the material in...

A few points on hylomorphism. It's an odd compound word but what it means is 'matter (hyle) form (morphe) dualism'. The 'hyle' of Aristotle was the wo...

The relationship of ‘consciousness’ and what we think of as religion comes from the Indian missionaries to America in the early 20th c. One such was S...

...and then, you open a Hotel.

I think everything he says ought to be dismissed out of hand, but that's not the point. The only point is, what if Trump wins another term? How is tha...

I just don't get how setting fire to cars and buildings is going to do anything other than play into Trump's scare campaign. If Trump wins another ter...

Fair point. But surely you agree that this doesn't warrant Trump smearing the opposition by saying they're the ones fomenting violence.

Rioting and looting is not civil protest. There are a lot of bad actors on all sides of the fence exploiting the situation for various reasons.

The point is, Trump's only interest in the dreadful civil unrest, destruction of property, and, now, actual violent deaths, is to the extent that whip...

Only in America.

The guy drove an hour to get into the action, carrying a military-style assault weapon. Nobody was trying to break into his home. He put himself in th...

However, ‘vagueness’ is not ‘nothing’. It’s still something - just something not very definite. Maybe something like a range of possibilities, out of ...

There would be no fool's gold if there were no gold.

Hey you're the one quoting the Bible!

You seem very cranky. It doesn't dispose me to responding to your raves. I've noticed Peter Harrison's books, he seems a good scholar, and that is a v...

I am indeed on the 'idealist' side of the ledger. But there many suppressed premisses lurking underneath this debate. Basically, if you question the m...

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I think your atheist convictions are so overpowering as to make discussion with you pointless. Life is to short.

The document I linked to is a PDF but the passage it contains which I feel is relevant to you is an often-quoted passage where Nagel, who is a profess...