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ramoss Member (Idle past 863 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Philophically, chance is every reason to say there IS no designer..
From a phsyics point of view, the universe is governed by probalities.. and is not deterministic. This was shown with a number of experiments. Nope.. no need for a designer, unless you already assume a designer.
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ramoss Member (Idle past 863 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Let's see.. a designer needed to design the designer.. which needed a designer to design it.. which needed a designer to design it.
It's turtles,all the way down. Unless, you want to get into the logical fallacy for a 'special pleading' for the existance of the 'first designer'.
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GDR Member Posts: 6223 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 3.8 |
sidelined writes: Creation in a world outside of time has no meaning.God is outside of time,therefore, God creating the world can have no meaning. Not at all. Time is part of the creation from a creator outside of time. Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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cavediver Member (Idle past 3894 days) Posts: 4129 From: UK Joined: |
From a phsyics point of view, the universe is governed by probalities.. and is not deterministic I'd love to know who started this rumour as it is completely untrue... Probabilities play a role in *observations* of the universe, but the universe itself is totally deterministic (as in our current understanding of the laws of phsyics show them to be completely deterministic)
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GDR Member Posts: 6223 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 3.8 |
ramoss writes: Let's see.. a designer needed to design the designer.. which needed a designer to design it.. which needed a designer to design it.It's turtles,all the way down. Your argument seems to be that because we don't understand it can't be true. In my view that's a pretty weak argument. Science has answered a great many questions about the workings of our universe but there is still a great deal that remains unanswered. To quote Lisa Randall, "we understand far more about the world than we did just a few short years ago - and yet we are more uncertain about the true nature of the univers than ever before". Your view is every bit as much a faith issue as is mine. Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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ramoss Member (Idle past 863 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
That is the fun thing about having no evidence. You make any claim you want, and you can't be disproven.
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ramoss Member (Idle past 863 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
And your answer is 'We don't understand it, it must be God'.
We do understand a lot about the probablity and at least the description of the way QM works. I don't see a requirement of postulating an 'intelligent designer' to have 'designed' the rules, since that begs the question about where that intelligent designer came from.
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GDR Member Posts: 6223 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 3.8 |
ramoss writes: And your answer is 'We don't understand it, it must be God'. I did not say that. All I'm saying is that we don't understand it so either is possible and either is a position of faith.
ramoss writes: We do understand a lot about the probablity and at least the description of the way QM works. I don't see a requirement of postulating an 'intelligent designer' to have 'designed' the rules, since that begs the question about where that intelligent designer came from. I have never suggested that from a scientific point of view that an intelligent designer is REQUIRED. With what limited knowledge I have of QM however I believe a designer is required but I have no proof for it. It is my opinion that there is a designer and apparently it is your opinion that there isn't. We disagree. We are actually going off topic here. The wiz states that nothing could have happened by chance without something being put in place allowing for chance. I think he has a good point. Atheists like to say that the world evolved through random chance and natural selection. How could there be a chance for anything to happen without something putting the ball into play. (So to speak.) Edited by GDR, : Edited to add the last para. Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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sidelined Member (Idle past 6159 days) Posts: 3435 From: Edmonton Alberta Canada Joined: |
GDR
Time is part of the creation from a creator outside of time. Since actions require time in which to proceed pray tell how does God manage to do something without the time to do it in?
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GDR Member Posts: 6223 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 3.8 |
Of course I can't answer that. It's like science at this point can't tell what happened at the instant of the BB. We don't have the mental capacity to comprehend an existance without time. I don't ever expect to prove the existance of God just as I contend that you will never be able to prove to me that there is no creator.
The question of this thread is how can the universe have begun by random chance and then natural selection. How can the possibility of the chance of anything exist without something creating the opportunity for any chance to be a possibility? Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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ikabod Member (Idle past 4744 days) Posts: 365 From: UK Joined: |
Chance does not need a oppertunity to be a possiblity ..
its always there .. if you have nothing then the chance of there being a blue fish is 0% ..the chance of there being nothing is 100%.... if the universe was just planet earth the the change of finding a blue fish 100% ( i know i have seen blue fishes )the chance of there being nothing is 0% Also chance is time locked .. .. the chance of England winning the world cup in 1966 is 100% ( cos its happened ) the chance os winnining in 1970 is 0% ,the chance in 2006 is hmm% at time= "now" we can make a good chance calulationat time="future" wecan make a chance calultaion but there are more uncertain factors( chances) so our calulation is less certain . at time ="past
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ramoss Member (Idle past 863 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
I'd love to know who started this rumour as it is completely untrue...
Karl Popper for one.
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mike the wiz Member (Idle past 245 days) Posts: 4755 From: u.k Joined: |
Let's see.. a designer needed to design the designer.. which needed a designer to design it.. which needed a designer to design it. It's turtles,all the way down. Unless, you want to get into the logical fallacy for a 'special pleading' for the existance of the 'first designer'. As far as I can tell, you're in the same boat. Infact the first mover is God, eternal, from a philosophical perspective. Claiming it was chance would be; chance = universe. Where did chance come from? From other matter? Where did that other matter come from? From chance? If chance is eternal but God can't be then that's a double standard. If chance isn't eternal then what caused the first thing? So, in my opinion, it's far more difficult for the none-believer because essentially, you're not providing a philosophical reason for existence. All you can say is that chance influenced some kind of multiple big bang scenario. PHILOSOPHICALLY, it seems impossible that anything other than God could be the first mover, as it answers, gives a good reason, and makes sense. NOTE TO ALL: My claim was that there is enough to prove God philosophically, NOT scientifically. This thread is about the philosophy. My aim is to solve the problem philosophically, because science can't tell us. i.e. It's not so much about claims and backing them up, as it is about giving good reasons. "Why" if you like, rather than "how".
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mike the wiz Member (Idle past 245 days) Posts: 4755 From: u.k Joined: |
Percy's kind of right, but I would say that you are trying complicate things anyway with bizarre limite choices, rather than trying to understand and be open minded about a Theistic position.
If you wanted to understand, then you wouldn't say "answer A or B". DO you really think that I believe that you don't know what I'm talking about when I say "chance"?
Can you please answer my question ? I wasn't being purposefully ambigious, it's that the site had the same problem as me. That is, we were trying to define chance as randomness. My own description would be something like; the potential for random events AND randomness. My only avoidance is the circular definiton, hence my boredom with the semantics, and my concentration on the pragmatics.
I would further like you to substantiate your claim that anyone asserts that chance exists when absolutely nothing exists. This isn't a strawman because the ones who assert that reality came about via multiple big bangs, or simply by chance, obviously REQUIRE chance to firstly exist independent of the universe, which as far as I know IS reality. As far as I know, chance is a product of the universe, the same as time and planets etc. I am not saying that you now have to prove otherwise to my declarations, because if you didn't, that wouldn't mean I was correct anyway. That would be an AFI. But rather, I am adressing the apparently atheistic universe people seem to easily assume is the case these days, without thinking about it. Infact, it's only from a scientific and parsimonious perspective, that the universe seems atheist. Philosophically, the philosophers conclude God. Their reasoning, as far as I can see, is better, because the whole point is to provide good reasons/reasoning. Edited by mike the wiz, : No reason given.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17909 Joined: Member Rating: 6.8 |
I don't think that asking for explanation is complicating matters. If the two options I suggest aren't what you mean then please explain what you DO mean.
quote:And I didn't say that. quote: I certainly hope so, because you claim that neither of the two interpretations I offered is correct !
quote:That's the first definition I offered. quote: But if they beleive in some sort of reality prior to our universe, then it would be a strawman. As I understand it, Eternal Inflation and the Ekpyrotic Universe both appeal to some "pre-existing" reality where chance could operate. The closest I can think of is the idea of a space of zero volume inflating to become a universe like ours - but even then we have something that is not "nothing" in the absolute sense that your argument would require.
quote: That's SOME philosphers. Others conclude otherwise. And I've yet to see a good philosphical argument for the existence of a God (although the Ontological argument is a clever piece of sophistry).
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