Wayfarer

The only real problem with you, is that a large proportion of what you write is meaningless, and that there's a lot of it. It would be advisable if yo...

'Flow' is related to 'meditative absorption' however the state of absorption may be directed towards enhancing athletic performance. So the content an...

That doesn't stop the theorists from trying! In fact, irony of ironies, one of the main drivers behind the 'multiverse conjecture' is to defuse the ap...

You screen name is taken from Buddhism, maybe you should study Buddhism, if you're not already. Trying to summarise what Buddhism says about this subj...

It isn't but it can point out the ways that moral judgements made on ostensibly scientific grounds have overstepped the mark. They're not, but when th...

So, believers believe. But unlike intelligent design proponents, Catholics don't look to science to validate that belief. Aquinas's theological proofs...

If you agree with the logic of the argument I've presented then yes. If not, why not?

What I'm saying is that scientific analysis doesn't extend beyond its domain into such questions as whether or not the Universe is meaningful, or whet...

I would like to try and put it more in the context of Western philosophical analysis. Scientific laws themselves, which arise from the observation of ...

OK, not 'many'! I will readily concede that. Here you go, a public acknowledgement: several posts ago I said 'survey paper shows many scientists criti...

I didn't pick the article for statistical significance, but for the tenor of the remarks: The other philosophical point that is interesting is this: i...

I said that I don't believe that creationism is true, so all the arguments about what the science of evolution proves or doesn't prove in respect of c...

Well, I think Dawkins and his ilk are wrong in their approach, wrong in their understanding of the issues, and wrong in the remedy of them, as do the ...

The rationale for prayer is that it connects you to the transcendent. That is the meaning of the Biblical verse, 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures ...

As I understand it, physics can rewind the tape to an infinitesmal fraction of a second after 'the singularity', but not right to it. Is that right? Y...

No, I don't think that is it. I think the 'argument from transcendence' is more that the first cause is what enables differences to exist in the first...

In actual fact, speculation about a purported first cause is still alive and well in the form of arguments about the fine-tuned universe. That is not ...

It's a subject in its own right. Called 'politics'.

I never care much for Craig (even despite it being my mother's maiden name!) I think the Catholics have a much better set of arguments for natural the...

Of course I agree that creationism ought not to be taught as science, but neither should the science be presented as 'proving' anything about the exis...

He published an article in the Sydney Morning Herald some time back. I was impressed by it, not least because you hardly ever read articles by philoso...

There is so much confusion and prejudice at work here, it's not worth having the argument. But please do note, I have supported all of my assertions, ...

Are you saying that science can or cannot prove whether a divine intelligence exists? Do you think if you pointed the Hubble Telescope in the right di...

No, what Dawkins should do, is realise that whether God exists or not, is not a matter for science. It's really very simple. I am not saying 'dogmatic...

No, I'm not blaming dogmatic atheists. But it is a fact that many Americans don't believe in evolution, and so arguing that 'science proves that God d...

Except for this current article (31 Oct 2016) on how Richard Dawkins Misrepresents Science, according to British scientists.

Good article on Frankl. Have you encountered Jules Evans?

Well what the dickens are we arguing about? Anyway, most of their books don't contain any 'substantive content', they are more school-yard atheists. I...

Notice the quotation from Michael Ruse. He represents a perfectly satisfactory middle path as far as I'm concerned.

Sad but true. The overturning of the successful introduction of a working carbon tax for blatantly political reasons is the most shameful episode in A...

I have been trying to advocate a middle-path approach which is neither fundamentalist nor materialistic, apparently without success.

I comment on these matters as a public service. X-)

I generally find your posts educational and also challenging, although as you know, I am sceptical of abiogenesis on philosophical grounds. (Incidenta...

Michael Ruse, Why I Think the New Atheists are a Bloody Disaster The new atheists have made this position impossible: their entire shtick is that scie...

I think it is the case that Apokrisis' philosophy is essentially drawn from and based around the life sciences, specifically in respect to biological ...

That's alright I glad someone finally noticed!

I get that. Fred Hoyle uses a similar argument about 'the junkyard Jumbo jet'. But the inference about the nature of the designer is what I'm disputin...

Dawkins says, at the end of Blind Watchmaker, that "a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously o...

I am disputing Dawkins' understanding of God as 'super-engineer'. I say that every description of God that Dawkins provides, indicates misunderstandin...

I think a better argument is that: all temporal events are finite, if time was infinite, everything would be finished already.

About this 'minimizing uncertainty' - I was reading a review by Galen Stawson the other day, in which he observed that 'physics, with its equations, o...

Well, if as the OP says, 'to have a metaphysics' is to have a way to 'select' among the kinds of things that 'exist'; and if you say that the 'kinds o...

Your worldview determines what you will regard as 'data'. That's what the thread is about.

I've been reading a bit by, and about, Sean Carroll. He's a respected quantum physicist but also physicalist. Hey, I'm on board with a lot of what you...

Or any less. It arises within and evolves with it, but it also guides it. Many of the earliest archeological relics from the paleo- and neolithic peri...

Physics, however, does make a declaration about what is considered a valid object of analysis, namely, something which can be physically measured, som...

Please don't say that you have 'pointed something out' as if by doing so, you've been instructing, when you're simply expressing an opinion. As I thin...

It is something that has to be explored through disciplined meditation. I learned meditation from an awareness training type of group - secular rather...

The conversation has the implication of 'you're trying to convert me'. I'm not, although I am beginning to realise that because I was always open to t...

God is not a God, not a Zeus or Indra or Baal. It was depicted in those terms because that was how people thought in those times, but the reality was ...