Archaeology of the New Testament

You aren't discussing a topic, Void.
And it starts again...
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I didn't say anything about an afterlife, Christianity, or Islam. I asked if you thought if it's reasonable to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.
As I've said several times, we don't know how the universe came into existence and I am perfectly fine saying that rather than making up explanations and fairytale creatures.
I'm not asking if you believe in anthropomorphic gods like Zeus or Odin. I asked if you thought if it's a great explanation to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.
See above.
So? Are you saying Earth is extremely rare and precious?
Nope. I'm saying the universe is not as you describe it.
None of those explain gravity at it's most fundamental level. There are some questions science doesn't answer, and probably never will. That's the point I made. You are trapped in a paradigm thinking that science provides, or can provide, the answer to absolutely everything.
There's no paradigm. Saying "I don't know" or "Science hasn't explained" is a lot more reasonable than making up explanations and, in the case of most of the world, structuring your life around that made up explanation.
Mathematics implies a mind, a rational agency, or an underlying organizing principle. You still haven't convinced me that lawful organization and an underlying universal mathematical scaffolding somehow just appears from inanimate, irrational, material causes.
You still haven't convinced me that the universe is as you describe it - rational, organized, etc. Of the Earth is so special, why is it designed so badly?
 
As I've said several times, we don't know how the universe came into existence and I am perfectly fine saying that rather than making up explanations and fairytale creatures.
How do you know the 'universe came into existence'?
See above.

Nope. I'm saying the universe is not as you describe it.

There's no paradigm. Saying "I don't know" or "Science hasn't explained" is a lot more reasonable than making up explanations and, in the case of most of the world, structuring your life around that made up explanation.
Magick Word (science). Science isn't being discussed here.
You still haven't convinced me that the universe is as you describe it - rational, organized, etc.
Here you are partially correct. The Universe is not organized at all. The word 'rational' does not apply here.
Of the Earth is so special, why is it designed so badly?
What makes you think it is designed so badly?
 
How do you know the 'universe came into existence'?
It's not known, but that is the current leading theory is that the Big bang brought to the universe into assistance.
Magick Word (science). Science isn't being discussed here.
Derp
Here you are partially correct. The Universe is not organized at all. The word 'rational' does not apply here.

What makes you think it is designed so badly?
If I have to explain, meaning that you are either trolling or are too dense to see the many flaws, you are not going to get it anyway and I would be wasting my time.
 
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I asked if you thought if it's reasonable to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.
You have no idea what you are asking.

I'm not asking if you believe in anthropomorphic gods like Zeus or Odin.
... or Climate.

I asked if you thought if it's a great explanation to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.
You have no idea what you are asking.

So? Are you saying Earth is extremely rare and precious?
It is the 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the observable universe that can support terrestrial life.

None of those explain gravity at it's most fundamental level.
You have no idea what it means to "explain gravity." None of those explain you.

There are some questions science doesn't answer,
... and religious speculation doesn't answer them either. Speculation is not an answer; it's a guess.

That's the point I made. You are trapped in a paradigm thinking that science provides, or can provide, the answer to absolutely everything.
He didn't say that. Only you are claiming that he said that so that you can attack the bogus position that you assigned to him.

Mathematics implies a mind
You are operating under the delusion that there is somehow mathematics in the universe that is not in someone's mind.

You still haven't convinced me ...
You are irrational and totally undereducated. You cannot be convinced.

... that lawful organization and an underlying universal mathematical scaffolding
There is no such thing. All mathematics is invented in the human mind. Mathematics does not exist floating around in the universe.

... somehow just appears from inanimate, irrational, material causes.
You have no idea what you just gibbered.
 
I asked if you thought if it's reasonable to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.
I asked if you thought if it's reasonable to believe an omnipotent and omniscient deity can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and the immaterial.

You flee to the hills every time I ask you this question, and of course you never answer.
 
Philosophical Question: Is it possible that the earth wasn't designed so much as it was "supplied"?
It is certainly possible.

But, consider this:

Earth is beautiful. Whether you are on the surface looking at a forest or out across the plains, it's wide variety of vegetation, lakes, rivers, streams, oceans, and even the deserts are a feast for the eyes, or when you see it from space. Yes, it happens to be our home, but what a beautiful home it is!

It is just the right size for our atmosphere to form as it has. Combined with oceans, and oxygen in the atmosphere, everything is provided for to keep our temperatures in a very narrow range and to protect life from the harsh radiation of open space. Further, the atmosphere is 'recycled', so to speak through animal life and plant life. Both are required for the other.

Earth is active, but benign. It has a liquid mantle and core, producing a changing surface but without killing everyone and everything. That core also provides for a magnetic field that no only is an aid to navigation, but protects us from the harsh solar wind or our nearby star. It even produces a pretty effect...the auroras.

We are just the right distance from the center of the galaxy. We are close enough to see many stars, but far enough that our sky isn't obscured with dust. Even the view from Earth is beautiful.

It is the only planet we know of that can support life. Admittedly, our view is extremely limited, but at least in this solar system, no other planet has this capability.

Life itself somehow arrived on Earth. How did this happen? Abiogenesis would result in a cell, but what is that cell going to eat? How would it survive the UV from the Sun? Did life originate on Earth (making it even MORE remarkable!), or was it placed here by some intelligence? If the latter, could such intelligence have manipulated conditions on Earth for that life to survive and flourish?

In other words, it is also quite possible the Earth was supplied by an intelligence, who also manipulated conditions on Earth for that life to survive and grow.

Does a cow know that she was bred by a rancher for a specific use? Provided a pasture to graze in, and a barn to stay out of the weather in.
Does a cow know that both the pasture, the barn, and the milking parlor were all provided by the rancher? Or does it simply exist to the cow much as the Earth simply exists to us?

To the cow it makes no difference, but the rancher knows better.
To us, it makes no difference, but the 'designer' would know better.

So yes, you can look at it either way.
 
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