Shawn

@"god must be atheist" Why must God be an atheist? https://i-6uf0utvje8gy-cdn.plushcontent.com/uploads/userpics/383/lI7RYIXHYNIJA.JPG?v=JVM

Ah, the rare cannibalism amongst trolls is a sight to be seen.

The more important question is when will you get a pig?

He seemed to be a nice fellow. I doubt he'd want to join again out of self respect. :eyes:

I don't believe anyone would object to dumping scrap iron into the oceans for algae to sequester CO2 from the atmosphere. And, that's just one idea ou...

It's likely that humanity will take more active measures against climate change in terms of removing CO2 emissions from the atmosphere. Such as dumpin...

Wallow wallow

Yes, and it seems as though gravity alone can induce ordered states, such as the supermassive black-hole at the center of our galaxy. Yet, even then, ...

I'd tell a doctor the same thing you said in the OP. No point in suffering when there's help available.

Yes, I keep on hearing that. But, doesn't it seem as though entropy decreases for supermassive objects? I.e a supermassive black hole at the center of...

What do you mean?

So, God reduces to Nature whenever invoking the PoSR? As a scholar of Spinoza, how do you reconcile the PoSR with Spinoza's necessitarianism given qua...

What governs negentropy in our universe?

That's the gist of it. We don't entirely know what caused a non-zero-sum in antimatter and matter result; but, it's interesting to think that an obser...

Edit: Every fact is historical.

Marco! Polo!

Its just a principle that has ramifications for either proving or disproving the existence of God. Funny that it manifests in exploring (N)ature when ...

I'm closer to the Principle of Sufficient Reason.

Yes, if you care @"jorndoe" elaborated on this if that's what you care to discuss.

Be nice to ask a dimensional analyst this question. Hard to find those folk.

When reading sparingly Hawking, the idea of a creator is embodied with the first cause. In other words from nothing, something came to be. Therefore, ...

Ah, nevermind. https://time.com/5434659/halloween-pagan-origins-in-samhain/?amp=true

Happy Halloween. Holiday of the pagan.

Sounds rational to exactly know what you want and act on it. Was it some kind of transformation or a conscious deliberation?

Who thinks Hanover needs some pigs on his farm?

I get high and sometimes I come back.

Will @"Hanover" raise pigs?

There's nothing special about life and it's origins. The building blocks of life are here on earth as well as on Mars. I don't think it will come off ...

How much is enough? I'm just going to lay this out as I see it. The PSR is the bedrock upon which rationalism stands on, so why do away with it especi...

Wallow wallow

But, ex nihilo and something from nothing doesn't have to be true, doesn't it, and we rely on the PSR through science to prove this!

Isn't this question begging if you can't provide a better methodology?

So, the added scrutiny of believing that everything in the world has a cause and effect is not good for how one ought to reason? Let look at this hist...

Doesn't anyone else think that the PSR dissuades one from superstition or supernatural phenomena like creationalisms conclusions?

It would seem rational to do so. But, consider that the reasonableness of the PSR shouldn't be swiped aside. It's a very useful tool in how we should ...

No, we do not. But, that's a conclusion that addresses the very human need to justify God's existence (according to physicists like Hawking). Ok, so y...

Your right. I think I'm running in circles. Here is what I should have said: Yes, it's a methodological notion. Yes, it is too strong. So, what?

Out of my dealing with reading a little of Spinoza and his necessitarianism or Schopenhauer and his haunted world, it seems to me that the PoSR is a h...

Yes, I agree. But, at a more fundamental level logic relies on the PoSR, doesn't it?

I'm not quite interested in invoking unique theories to rationalize away. It's not of concern to me that QM is not subject to scrutiny under the PoSR....

The PoSR is not an empirical notion, you say? So, what methodology would you propose instead of assuming the PoSR in science? Either way, if you assum...

But, when encountering all encompassing beliefs of notions such as God, it seems necessary to attribute the PoSR to explaining the notion that God is ...

Well, going down that path, many people believed that the Earth was at the center of the universe or that the sun orbited the Earth. Strange and ungro...

Yes true. But that's one instance where the definition of the PoSR was not fully fulfilled.

I seem to think that even with this fact considered, there are grounds for believing that what Hawking meant with his estimation that God need not be ...

Yes, I agree. I believe that Quantum Mechanics, which you allude to, isn't a sufficient reason to do away with the PoSR altogether. It's a powerful to...

Along this line of reasoning, if one assumes that God is the World, then it seems to me that the definition logically becomes that God is Nature. So, ...

:up: So, I take it your not a fan of the PoSR?

The PoSR: The Principle of Sufficient Reason is a powerful and controversial philosophical principle stipulating that everything must have a reason, c...

Yes, and here the PoSR has it's strength in assuming that everything has a reason for it's phenomenon or more modernly, cause. Otherwise you incur sup...