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Author Topic:   My Beliefs- GDR
NoNukes
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Message 149 of 1324 (699311)
05-17-2013 11:50 AM
Reply to: Message 145 by GDR
05-16-2013 3:01 PM


Well my original point was that if some scientist in the future is able to create a single cell out of strictly inorganic matter the it will show that it took sentience to make that happen.
Wouldn't you want to see how he did it before you jumped to that conclusion. If the scientist of the future manages to create a cell by simply mimicking natural, unintelligent, processes, then that would seem to show exactly the opposite of what you suggest.
I remember coming off my bike years ago and what took a split second to my wife watching took several seconds for me, allowing me to have several thoughts and to be able to lift my head so that it wouldn't crack on the pavement.
Even taking what you say at face value, what you describe would not require that some funky thing to happen to time. A change in the way humans perceive events would be sufficient, and might not require any suspension of natural law.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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