don't delude yourself. what you experience as "consciousness" is merely the unintended side-effect from the flux of chemical causality occurring in your brain.
As opposed to some "intended effects"? There are no accidents. There are no side effects. There are no intentions. It's all either causality or randomness, depending on which camp you fall into.
The lower bound on the size of the universe, based on the CMBR is 78billion light years, any smaller, and then light would have circumnavigated it since the big bang, and we would see multiple images in the CMBR
Um, why would light need to "circumnavigate" anything? Is it in orbit about the universal core or something? Why can't it just keep going and going and going without coming back?
Evolution masquerades as science, but it has many assumptions (beliefs).
All science has many assumptions. Without assumptions you're not going to get any further then "I am aware therefore I am" (since someone else could conceivably be doing the actual thinking).
When push comes to shove, if people truly believe in a Creator God, then the question of responsibility and accountability arises.
Yes, God's responsibility and accountability. Because if God knows what humans are going to do before creating them, then God, and only God, is responsible for all that they do, and there's no such thing as free will no matter what the Bible claims. But this is getting way off topic.
Well in the scripture I cited, he DID tell us that he did it and how long he took to do it.
And creating the Earth and the Heavens in a single day would not contradict evolution in any way shape or form. Populating it with the birds and the fishes and all that does contradict evolution, and that's one of the "later" parts I referred to in my first post.
A person who can believe Genesis 1:1 should have no problem believing that the same Creator God could have done it exactly has He tells He did and in the time He said He did it.
There's a difference between believing that a Creator God could do something, and believing that a Creator God did something.
How would anyone who claims to believe the Bible, in other words a true Christian, reconcile the opening statement of the Bible with evolution?
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Either God really did create the earth and everything in it or it came into existence in some other way. How can anyone who truly believes this very first foundational sentence of the Bible, have any difficulty in believing everything else that follows it?
If there truly is a God capable of creating everything that exists out of absolutely nothing, including all life, then everything else we read in the Bible that we commonly attach the term "supernatural" to, should be believable as well.
That "opening statement" has absolutely nothing to do with evolution. Few people claim that the Earth evolved. What comes later.... yes, that causes problems.
On the other hand, even looking at a lab mouse funny causes it to develop cancer. If after 4 months these mice haven't developed tumors, they may have just found the cure for cancer!
All universes that you observe, by definition, include you in them; all universes that you don't observe, by definition, don't include you in them.
How many universes are you observing right now? That's right, one. When you die, your consciousness does not magically switch to the next universe. You cease to exist. Some one else, who may be identical to you, keeps on living. They are alive. You are not.
"However, from the point of view of the non-dead copies of the experimenter, the experiment will continue running without his ceasing to exist, because at each branch, he will only be able to observe the result in the world in which he survives, and if many-worlds is correct, the surviving copies of the experimenter will notice that he never seems to die, therefore "proving" himself to be invulnerable to the gun mechanism in question, at least from his own point of view."
And this makes perfect sense because of the part I bolded. There could also be a universe where the experimenter wins every single lottery jackpot (without any cheating involved). From his point of view, he can't lose. Doesn't help his alternate loser selves any. The fact that they're point of view doesn't end with losing the lottery makes absolutely no difference.
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Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. -Larry Niven
don't delude yourself. what you experience as "consciousness" is merely the unintended side-effect from the flux of chemical causality occurring in your brain.
As opposed to some "intended effects"? There are no accidents. There are no side effects. There are no intentions. It's all either causality or randomness, depending on which camp you fall into.
What would happen if terrorists got nicknames after all major U.S. and U.K. political figures.
All we need is a time machine.
It is also why men won't stop for directions when lost and women are able to care for families so well.
Does it also explain why men talk like this while women talk like this?
The lower bound on the size of the universe, based on the CMBR is 78billion light years, any smaller, and then light would have circumnavigated it since the big bang, and we would see multiple images in the CMBR
Um, why would light need to "circumnavigate" anything? Is it in orbit about the universal core or something? Why can't it just keep going and going and going without coming back?
Depends on both the game and the gamer
Great, so my first new computer in 9 years, which I built in January using an nForce board and a 8800GT is screwed....
Evolution masquerades as science, but it has many assumptions (beliefs).
All science has many assumptions. Without assumptions you're not going to get any further then "I am aware therefore I am" (since someone else could conceivably be doing the actual thinking).
When push comes to shove, if people truly believe in a Creator God, then the question of responsibility and accountability arises.
Yes, God's responsibility and accountability. Because if God knows what humans are going to do before creating them, then God, and only God, is responsible for all that they do, and there's no such thing as free will no matter what the Bible claims. But this is getting way off topic.
Well in the scripture I cited, he DID tell us that he did it and how long he took to do it.
And creating the Earth and the Heavens in a single day would not contradict evolution in any way shape or form. Populating it with the birds and the fishes and all that does contradict evolution, and that's one of the "later" parts I referred to in my first post.
A person who can believe Genesis 1:1 should have no problem believing that the same Creator God could have done it exactly has He tells He did and in the time He said He did it.
There's a difference between believing that a Creator God could do something, and believing that a Creator God did something.
If there is a god, he/she/it/they has/have done a remarkably good job of covering up any evidence.
Which, you must admit, would be very understandable. I mean, who really wants to disappear in a puff of logic?
How would anyone who claims to believe the Bible, in other words a true Christian, reconcile the opening statement of the Bible with evolution?
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Either God really did create the earth and everything in it or it came into existence in some other way. How can anyone who truly believes this very first foundational sentence of the Bible, have any difficulty in believing everything else that follows it?
If there truly is a God capable of creating everything that exists out of absolutely nothing, including all life, then everything else we read in the Bible that we commonly attach the term "supernatural" to, should be believable as well.
That "opening statement" has absolutely nothing to do with evolution. Few people claim that the Earth evolved. What comes later.... yes, that causes problems.
On the other hand, even looking at a lab mouse funny causes it to develop cancer. If after 4 months these mice haven't developed tumors, they may have just found the cure for cancer!
Only in God years.
Even if you could prove that humans made up God, that wouldn't prove God's non-existence.
Right after he ports Crysis to an unmodified Commodore 64, optimized to be played at high resolutions, maximum graphic settings, 60fps.
Wait a second, did it break remote desktop on the server or the client end?
No, Gore would've known Bin Laden is hiding out in the cast of Mad TV.
Do not attempt to adjust the picture.
Was it released in the last month?
All universes that you observe, by definition, include you in them; all universes that you don't observe, by definition, don't include you in them.
How many universes are you observing right now? That's right, one. When you die, your consciousness does not magically switch to the next universe. You cease to exist. Some one else, who may be identical to you, keeps on living. They are alive. You are not.
From the wikipedia article
"However, from the point of view of the non-dead copies of the experimenter, the experiment will continue running without his ceasing to exist, because at each branch, he will only be able to observe the result in the world in which he survives, and if many-worlds is correct, the surviving copies of the experimenter will notice that he never seems to die, therefore "proving" himself to be invulnerable to the gun mechanism in question, at least from his own point of view."
And this makes perfect sense because of the part I bolded. There could also be a universe where the experimenter wins every single lottery jackpot (without any cheating involved). From his point of view, he can't lose. Doesn't help his alternate loser selves any. The fact that they're point of view doesn't end with losing the lottery makes absolutely no difference.