jondeval

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by jondeval 4y ago
I sense you just expressing your view on the matter, but I think that this is a very weak argument for God's existence. It's completely plausible that we will at some point in the future have good materialist explanations for the
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by jondeval 4y ago
Yup. I see what you mean and I do think in practice conversations may proceed this way. And I think you are illustrating well the point I made above. The key idea though is that if you make a dispassionate analysis of what this base reality
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by jondeval 4y ago
Not quite. Although I fully understand the feedback. There are 2 equally valid senses in which the word creator can be used. Both conform to standard definitions but each used in a different sense. I tried to add clarity in the response abo
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by jondeval 4y ago
Sure. I'll try. There are two senses to understand the word creator. I'll illustrate both by analogies to the way 'we' create as people: (1) A violinist is creating the music that you are currently hearing. Here and now
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by jondeval 4y ago
This is an interesting and important point. I'll attempt to rephrase your point slightly differently: Everything we observe in the universe has a sequence of linear causes stretching backward in time. However we can't be sure from
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by jondeval 4y ago
I don't follow you. Can you elaborate?
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by jondeval 4y ago
My strong opinions, weakly held: * God is not a good hypothesis for any secondary cause. The creation of space-time as we currently understand it must have had a secondary cause. Let's patiently keep looking for a scientific hypothesis
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by jondeval 4y ago
> My pet theory: Something has always existed. There was no beginning. No origin. No first cause. No t=0. No start. It's always been there. What was before that? That. And that. And that. Always that. Your pet theory is the view of
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by jondeval 4y ago
There are obvious tradeoffs with stability that are being noted. These concerns are well expressed here: https://xkcd.com/1428/ But I think the more insidious downside of this mentality in practice is that it tends to
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by jondeval 4y ago
It would seem that G.K. Chesterton had a sense of the implications of these overly inward looking practices: "Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, th
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by jondeval 5y ago
There seems to be a few speculative discussions around what the author identifies as a toxic addiction to righteousness and the spread of Christianity. When considering that this phenomenon touches the whole of humanity I can't help bu