BlueBanana

What is it supposed to prove to expect something from a prophecy that those who believe in them don't claim?

The step 6 doesn't make sense. I assume you meant to include P1=(P1=(P1>P2)) somewhere, but that's not actually true, because "this sentence" would th...

This seems like double standards. In no context except bashing the Bible would anyone expect a prophecy to be unambiguous or clear in any sense. I sup...

Firstly, science is always more focused on provably factual information than philosophy due to its nature. Philosophers are allowed to make more specu...

It doesn't take the same starting point. Science looks at things associated with consciousness, like brain activity, or in psychology for example, beh...

I meant in colloquial usage, but yes, even in philosophical discourse, wildly different theories about something doesn't necessarily imply that it's n...

@Relativist thinks they're telling the truth, you blame them of political correctness - it seems pretty straightforward conclusion to draw, from their...

I had the same experience with attempting to read Antifragile. It's as if he assumes that the reader is an idiot that doesn't understand the concept f...

Does it? To me that's an argument that you need to justify just as much, if not more, than the original one. That's a circular argument. The correct c...

And it is not fundamentally useful or meaningful. The mathematics that are, are the ones that start with axioms supported by evidence.

In my opinion it says something of both the way language surpasses its direct meaning in communication and the subjective mind that people manage to u...

Well that's the thing, we can't, thus the argument that everyone else might not have a consciousness. I suppose people assume the existence of other p...

Still, the objects that the concepts refer to are real. Their existence comes first, second comes humans making up their concepts, and last humans mak...

Circular reasoning. If all humans are p-zombies with no experiences, we'd indeed have the word for it merely because humans under determinism would ha...

That's not true. The question isn't "Why does the word 'self-aware' apply to us?" but "Why do we have the property that the word 'self-aware' refers t...

Ok, "boring" was a poor choice of a word, I only meant that from the viewpoint of philosophy. Nevertheless, my point stands. Most people don't care ab...

Besides Lincoln saying so, why? Average Joes are boring people who fail to see the beauty of philosophy, and appealing to them is what is wrong with c...

"I won't die, I will just cease living. Thus, I'm immortal."

This I have said so far: you have given and been given examples of things that fall under the umbrella term of belief (blind guess, acceptance of expe...

I remember what I said, and I replied to your reply with "How so", followed by expanding on my first comment.

How so? For every X for which belief is an umbrella term that has been offered, you've responded that you call X not a belief but simply X - which you...

That's similar to stating that I don't have limbs - I have arms and legs, and I don't need to disguise them as anything else by using hypernyms or umb...

How is an observer defined in physics? Certainly not in terms of an actual sentient being perceiving the system. With that said, what relevance do the...

Are you implying religious people can't accept science? Smells like an ad hominem. There's no contradiction between science and the parts of religion ...

That's very debatable. I think that if there's a God external to the universe that created it, then it's also external and superior to time, spatial d...

As you're so keen on twisting the meanings of words and bringing up Darwin's personal opinions and beliefs, let's shake this up: is anything in the ab...

How would those abstractions be undescribable? And do you mean this system would be the one where the universe is defined as the totality of its thing...

I don't think your rejection of premise two is valid. You're relying on your intuition, showing examples where "clearly" your principles are superior....

What about movies or books? If a god wanted things to stay how they are, they wouldn't create time, but they did, because there's certain beauty in ch...

Paintings contain multiple colors. Does that mean the painter was indecisive about what colors to use? And why couldn't a god/God be indecisive?

That was a question of his personal faith and what he believed the God to be. If by direction you mean that evolution should have some end goal, some ...

I don't want to drag this metaphysical concept of direction into this, whatever you mean by that. What Darwin referred to with his usage of that word ...

After I said that evolution works according to the laws of physics, you expressed disagreement. What other conclusion am I to draw? Where?

I'm having difficulty understanding just what you mean. Are you claiming that evolution defies the laws of physics?

All of them.

*Nothing about the existence of gods.

Evolution happens according to the laws of physics and thus could be argued to be deterministic. Therefore a god could change some minor details befor...

I was wondering whether someone would point out that wasn't 100% correct term for the context, but my point was that you don't seem to believe the con...

Ah, I misread your comment, not noticing you had misread mine. I said while you seemed to reply to which I didn't notice.

If you're renting a room, aren't you technically settling down, even if temporarily on large scale? One could also argue that partying doesn't lead an...

That'd be one of the best conclusions in this thread, were you not stating it sarcastically.

Throwing dice is random. The result is not designed. The dice and the system of throwing them are.

The good old "religion contradicts science and objectivity and is therefore false" straw man.

-0=0. You don't want the opposite of that, you want to add something.

I agree with all that but I'm arguing from the POV of the alternative against your arguments because they have some issues. So, from the POV of God, t...

Yes? We don't understand why that is for reasons that we don't understand, but can infer are the same reasons for which squirrels don't understand tho...

Are facts necessarily about things? What if things are defined by the facts about them?

Well he did create squirrels.

What would have happened is irrelevant. The idea was still triggered by something else than a mailbox.

Both false. You missed the central step of showing the redefinitions match the existing ones. See, this is the problem with changing the meaning of th...