Actually even without inflationary theory that's fine. Good old-fashioned "where did that come from?" Big Bang gives you an infinite past, from a poin...
Okay you kinda edited out the bit that was clearly talking about lengths. A ruler does not change in position between one end and the other. A mountai...
Why? If it is infinite and expanding, then in the past it was still infinite and expanding. No start required. Gravity is a requirement for life, true...
I've mentioned one in every post, yes! It'd be most fraudulent to say it was mine though. I am agnostic on it too. It is a fallacy that I can reject a...
Plumbers and carpenters do work for someone else for the money they need to feed their families. It's just nicely abstracted now. Communists have plum...
The inflation field can cause something and is self-driven. That's rather why I mentioned it. Your body is fine-tuned as a walking bacterium habitat. ...
Yes, technology is not kind to peasants. No, I'm a peasant only insofar as I must labour for someone else in order to feed and house my family. I may ...
Again, according to the creationist mindset which ascribes agency to anything it doesn't understand. There is still no reason why a first cause needs ...
A creationist may not be able to abide the lack of an intelligent first cause. That does not necessitate an intelligent creator. Yes, something can be...
I think this is less about property, though, and more the way we personalise space as extensions of ourselves. It is because the burglar was in my hom...
What Aquinus regurgitated was that there must either be a first cause or an infinite regress of causes. The failure of his logic was to suddenly shout...
I'm not sure I'm familiar with it. I know that the left here is very decentred, with everyone being a Nazi to someone else. The socialist, largely ath...
Obviously this kind of data is going to be sprawling. One is the historic exit poll data from US elections, which shows that the predominant religious...
I have seen some, yes. When I put my PC back together I will dig it out. The Hitler/Stalin thing, I guess. I don't see much difference between religio...
Yes. We might colloquially say that a ruler goes from one end to another, but nothing is really going anywhere: it just occupies that space. It is a s...
It can, yes, e.g. the distance travelled by a hiker. But does that necessitate a hiker in order to have some concept of distance? No. So does somethin...
Nationality has some importance. It is important to acknowledge that local customs when travelling differ from those you are used to at home, for inst...
Does a distance represent some change in spatial location? It's the same thing. Just that, in relativity, an object is said to be moving through time....
I don't see any religious element to my response. I am one of the multitude who must labour for others in order to provide for my family. I am a peasa...
The precise history will depend on the place you're talking about. Here in England, land was seized by force by Roman forces and distributed among Rom...
A "change" in temporal position, as referred to by myself, meant nothing more than an interval of time over which we can consider different positions ...
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/2a/e1/44/2ae144b9ae6ee8417826c1030d60fa13--monty-python-funny-people.jpg No, but people who find information in them that is...
So being a genius female lawyer would not increase the average IQ of women because there's no Nobel prize for it? Dude, seriously! You've anchored you...
I have that idea, the analogy is fit for that purpose. What I want to know is the sorts of things preserved to ensure causality in the moral dimension...
:up: What's shameful looking at that is that no woman has won the Nobel prize for physics solo, which means that even when women are doing great resea...
Absolutely! As the editor of New Scientist once said: "We think science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can *&!# off!" :rofl: But none of t...
No worries Luke. I'm glad we persevered even when our tempers strained. Kinematics holds in eternalism and presentism. That is, it doesn't care how yo...
I don't think that makes sense. If reason and logic are emergent phenomena, than their modes are reasonable and logical. It doesn't become unreasonabl...
It is not the scientist's view that explaining something is the same as dismissing it. A non-materialist may well, due to prejudice against material s...
I wasn't posing an example that involved sight generally. The example was more specific. This is starting to feel a little like sophistry tbh. A scien...
Yes, I don't mean an answer that needs a particle accelerator and complex of fizzing beakers and tubes. "How was the Earth created?" is a scientific q...
It was probably an incorrect use of terminology on my part (I'm not a cognitive neuroscientist). I just meant whatever the visual cortex does. No spoo...
It's not about overriding your own moral values, but the morals of others. Living inauthentically is being how others want you to be instead of being ...
Unless you are L. Ron Hubbard risen again, no I am not. It was for completeness that I pointed that a religion does not need an original believer. You...
It is the definition of velocity in kinematics. If position depends on time, position has a gradient with respect to time in the exact same way altitu...
So they context of that was questions formulated into a mutually-comprehensible schema, such as phenomonology, that made both philosophical and scient...
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